Senior Manager – Application Development & Modernization

Ryder Supply Chain Solutions; Coral Gables (FL); On-site; USD 125,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Paid time off

401(k) retirement plan

Job summary

Ryder seeks an experienced Manager of Application Development & Support to lead enterprise software initiatives across multiple teams. You will drive design of scalable, secure platforms, align with infrastructure and security, and oversee end-to-end delivery in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities include governance across DEV/QA/UAT/PROD, cost optimization, and ensuring uptime and performance through observability.

Qualifications

• Seven (7) years or more experience in Application Development and IT Project Management.
• Experience leading multiple initiatives in fast-paced environments.
• Ability to partner with infrastructure, cloud, and security teams.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Infrastructure, Cloud, and Security teams to design and implement scalable, highly available, and resilient platforms.
• Ensure applications are designed with infrastructure considerations including capacity planning, performance tuning, failover, and recovery.
• Drive adoption of cloud-native architectures, containerization, and platform engineering practices where applicable.
• Oversee environment strategy (DEV, QA, UAT, PROD) ensuring consistency, automation, and governance across environments.
• Ensure observability (monitoring, logging, alerting) is in place to support proactive issue detection and performance management.
• Collaborate on disaster recovery and business continuity strategies, including testing and validation of recovery objectives (RTO/RPO).
• Ensure infrastructure security standards, patching, and vulnerability remediation are incorporated into application lifecycle.
• Support infrastructure cost optimization initiatives through efficient resource utilization and architectural decisions.
• Partners with leadership to drive innovation by understanding business needs and evolving technologies.
• Provide technical leadership to team of developers to meet business needs and set priorities.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Strategic thinking

Time management

Decision making

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Management, Engineering or related field

Master’s degree MBA a plus

Tools

Knowledge of SDLC

Job description

Ryder seeks an experienced Manager of Application Development & Support to lead enterprise software initiatives across multiple teams. You will drive design of scalable, secure platforms, align with infrastructure and security, and oversee end-to-end delivery in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities include governance across DEV/QA/UAT/PROD, cost optimization, and ensuring uptime and performance through observability.