Senior DevOps & SRE Leader - Cloud, Automation, Resilience

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

Job summary

GCS Recruitment seeks an experienced Senior DevOps Manager to lead a high-performing Technical Operations team, ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of a large-scale cloud environment. This leadership role combines technical depth with people management to drive operational excellence and cross-functional collaboration across engineering, security, and product teams.

The ideal candidate has a strong background in cloud infrastructure, incident management, IaC, and team

Qualifications

• Minimum 8+ years in DevOps/Technical Operations/SRE roles.
• 4+ years managing technical operations teams.
• Experience managing production cloud infrastructure in AWS and/or GCP.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration.
• Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a Technical Operations/DevOps team.
• Ensure 24/7 operational stability of production infrastructure.
• Drive continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Lead incident response and post-incident RCA reviews.
• Establish and manage SLOs/SLIs and error budgets.
• Oversee IaC and infrastructure automation.
• Manage Kubernetes-based platforms and cloud infrastructure.
• Improve deployments via CI/CD and automation.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Security, and Infrastructure teams on strategic initiatives.
• Drive disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
• Develop monitoring, alerting, and observability strategies.
• Present operational metrics to senior leadership.
• Ensure security standards and audits compliance.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Incident management

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Linux administration

Communication

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, IT, or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Manager to lead a high-performing Technical Operations team responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of a large-scale cloud infrastructure. This leadership role combines technical expertise with people management, driving operational excellence, infrastructure automation, and cross-functional collaboration across engineering, security, and product teams.

The ideal candidate is an experienced DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) leader with a strong background in cloud infrastructure, incident management, infrastructure automation, and team development.

Key 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), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets.
• Oversee infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code (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.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Technical Operations, Infrastructure Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering.
• 4+ years of experience managing technical operations, infrastructure, or SRE teams.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, and people management skills.
• Experience managing production cloud infrastructure in AWS and/or GCP.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration.
• Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Strong understanding of Linux systems administration.
• Experience with incident management, on-call operations, and production support.
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals, cloud security, and infrastructure best practices.
• Experience with Agile methodologies, Kanban, Jira, or similar project management tools.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience implementing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, APM tools, and centralized logging solutions.
• Experience with disaster recovery planning and multi-region infrastructure.
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks including SOC 2 and other security standards.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale cloud platforms.
• Cloud certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect or Google Cloud Professional certifications.
• Experience with enterprise networking, telecommunications, wireless networking, or IoT environments.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.

Technical Environment

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Terraform
• Linux
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Git
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Jira
• Agile / Kanban
• Networking & Cloud Security

What You'll Gain

• Opportunity to lead and mentor a high-performing DevOps and Technical Operations team.
• Work on large-scale, cloud-native infrastructure supporting enterprise applications and mission-critical services.
• Drive strategic initiatives in infrastructure automation, cloud modernization, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies including Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS/GCP, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Influence technical direction and collaborate with cross-functional engineering, security, and product teams.

GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.