Sr. Manager, DevOps Engineering

McDonald's; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 149,000 - 191,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global restaurant brand in Chicago is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineering Manager to oversee the DevOps team. This role involves consulting on automation tools and ensuring performance targets are met. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in DevOps engineering, strong leadership skills, and proficiency in cloud infrastructure. Competitive compensation and benefits are provided.

Benefits

Bonus Eligible

Long-Term Incentive

Benefits Eligible

Qualifications

• 5+ years professional experience in DevOps engineering, including 3+ years as a people manager.
• Ability to influence and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the DevOps team, ensuring performance targets are met.
• Consult with architects on automation tools and best practices.
• Educate development teams on CI/CD standards and tooling.

Skills

DevOps engineering

Cloud infrastructure (AWS)

Leadership skills

CI/CD processes

Communication skills

Education

Bachelors degree in Technology or related field

Tools

Kubernetes (AWS EKS)

Jenkins Pipelines

GitHub Actions

JIRA

Job description

Job Description:

McDonald’s growth strategy, Accelerating the Arches, encompasses all aspects of our business as the leading global omni-channel restaurant brand. As the consumer landscape shifts we are using our competitive advantages to further strengthen our brand.

McDonald’s Global Technology is here to power tomorrow’s feel-good moments. That’s why you’ll find us at the forefront of transformative technology, exploring new and innovative ways to serve our millions of customers and spread happiness one delicious Hot Fudge Sundae-dipped fry at a time.

Using AI, robotics and emerging tech, we’re digitizing the Golden Arches. Combine that with our unparalleled global scale, and we’re reshaping all areas of the business, industry and every community that is home to a McDonald’s restaurant.

Role Overview

The Commercial Product & Platform vision develops global technology products and platforms that delight our customers and enable our crew to operate our restaurants reliably and effectively.

The Senior DevOps Engineering Manager reports to Director of Engineering, DevOps COE, where our mission is to help our product engineering teams deliver faster with improved quality and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the DevOps team, ensuring they have the resources they need and are meeting performance targets. Handle team management, performance reviews, and professional development.
• Consult with other DevOps architects and product teams in selection of appropriate automation tools, to define and implement best practices and emerging concepts in DevOps, infrastructure automation, and platform architecture.
• Act as a bridge between market/segment stakeholders and the development team, ensuring that technical solutions align with business needs.
• Educate and advise development teams on how CI/CD standards, tooling and environments can help achieve their objectives; assist in bringing teams together to resolve repetitive issues in the CI/CD pipeline and development environments.
• Help build a knowledge hub for best practices and recommendations of DevSecOps practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Technology or related field.
• 5+ years professional experience in DevOps engineering with at least 3+ years as a people manager or similar positions.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to optimally communicate sophisticated concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to solicit and communicate business expectations and build strong client and stakeholder relationships.
• Strong, applied, knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS) and cluster management tools like Kubernetes (AWS EKS).
• Strong Experience with continuous integration and related tools such as Jenkins Pipelines, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, SonarQube, Artifactory etc.
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills are self-driven and deliver high-quality results in a fast-paced environment.
• Familiarity with modern software development practices including TDD and other testing practices, CI/CD, and containerized deployment using a cloud provider.
• Experience partnering with collaborators in a large-scale, sophisticated, global organization.
• Proficient in Project Management /Tracking with tools like JIRA, MS Project.

Compensation: Bonus Eligible: YES, Long-Term Incentive: YES, Benefits Eligible: YES. The expected salary range for this role is $149,260.00 - $190,310.00 per year.

McDonald’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of our workforce. We promote an inclusive work environment that creates feel-good moments for everyone. McDonald’s provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities as part of the application or hiring process or to perform the essential functions of their job.

McDonald’s provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin, age, disability status, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, protected military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.