Senior DevOps & SRE Lead — Cloud Infra & Automation

GCS Recruitment; Campbell (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

GCS Recruitment in Campbell, CA, is seeking an experienced DevOps Manager to lead a Technical Operations team responsible for reliability, scalability, and performance of a large-scale cloud infrastructure.

This leadership role blends hands-on technical work with people management, driving automation, incident response, and cross-functional collaboration with security, product, and engineering teams. You’ll shape deployment processes and disaster recovery strategies.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in DevOps, Technical Operations, Infrastructure Engineering, or SRE.
• 4+ years leading technical operations, infrastructure, or SRE teams.
• Experience managing production cloud infrastructure in AWS and/or GCP.
• Hands-on Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration.
• Strong Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Strong Linux systems administration knowledge.
• Incident management, on-call operations, and production support.
• Networking fundamentals, cloud security, and infra best practices.
• Experience with Agile methodologies, Jira, or Kanban.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing Technical Operations/DevOps team.
• Ensure 24/7 operational stability, availability, and reliability of production infrastructure.
• Drive operational excellence through continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead incident response, major incident management, and post-incident reviews (RCA).
• Establish and manage Service Level Objectives (SLOs), SLIs, and error budgets.
• Oversee infrastructure automation using IaC principles.
• Manage Kubernetes-based container platforms and cloud infrastructure.
• Improve deployment processes through CI/CD and automation.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Security, and Infrastructure teams on strategic initiatives.
• Drive disaster recovery, resiliency, and business continuity planning.
• Develop monitoring, alerting, and observability strategies.
• Present operational metrics and project updates to senior leadership.
• Ensure compliance with security standards, audits, and regulatory requirements.

Skills

Leadership

People Management

Cloud Infrastructure

AWS & GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Linux Administration

Incident Management

Agile / Kanban

Executive Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Prometheus

Grafana

Git

Jira

Job description

GCS Recruitment in Campbell, CA, is seeking an experienced DevOps Manager to lead a Technical Operations team responsible for reliability, scalability, and performance of a large-scale cloud infrastructure.

This leadership role blends hands-on technical work with people management, driving automation, incident response, and cross-functional collaboration with security, product, and engineering teams. You’ll shape deployment processes and disaster recovery strategies.