Devops Manager

Devops Manager

The Role:

In your role as Manager for the DevOps team, you will be responsible for hiring, mentoring, and growing a team who are involved in selecting and implementing tools and processes that enable development of scalable and reliable applications. Your teams mission is to embrace continuous integration/deployment in a delivery pipeline that will perform automated quality checks, deploy cloud infrastructure and applications quickly, and provide operational observability / metrics that can be consumed by development teams. You will bring a blend of Management and technical expertise to lead the DevOps organization.

Key Leadership Responsibilities:

• Managing Cloud Infrastructure and SRE team in the development and maintenance of reliable infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
• Identify and proactively recommend continuous improvements on DevOps services provided.
• Standardize and train members across product teams on relevant DevOps processes and tasks.
• Lead platform engineers to enable productivity and efficiency in the DevOps tools.
• Create and own an Observability Platform to proactively track and support application health.
• Continuously learn and explore new tools, techniques, and methodologies to drive innovation and enhance the DevOps platform.
• Maintain documentation of processes, configurations, and technical guidelines.
• Prepare reports and presentations to communicate project status, metrics, and achievements to stakeholders.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders at various levels, including executive management, project managers, and product owners.
• Understand their needs and priorities, and effectively communicate the value and impact of DevOps initiatives.
• Mentor and share knowledge with junior team members and across the Allegion IT teams. Experience in Agile software development and DevSecOps practices.
• Act as a thought leader within Allegion for DevOps practices.
• Experience updating and deploying environments through Infrastructure as Code scripts.
• Responsible for people leadership of DevOps team – hiring, managing performance objectives, providing regular feedback, handling performance assessment, managing career growth, mentoring, employee engagement etc..

Key skills:

• 10+ years of DevOps experience with software configuration management and release engineering.
• Good understanding of virtualization and container technologies (Docker, EKS/AKS/Kubernetes, etc.)
• Very proficient with designing and implementing cloud solutions in Azure, AWS Cloud technology implementations and management platforms.
• Experience with tools such as Git, Azure DevOps, Artifactor, and other similar tooling
• Experience with Automation (Python, PowerShell, etc.)
• Exposed to deploying canaries for testing and conducting security checks in CI/CD pipelines Proficient in configuration management tools like Ansible and infrastructure-as-code frameworks such as Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Sentry.io, CloudWatch, etc.) for proactive system monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Experience hiring, Mentoring, and leading DevSecOps, SRE and Platform engineers.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams in a highly complex & matrixed organization, delivering medium to large-sized projects and initiatives.
• Have a passion for technology and a willingness to explore and adopt emerging technologies for practical business purposes.
• Bring an upbeat, positive attitude while developing innovative technical solutions with Matrix organizations to help enable business growth and improve customer satisfaction.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, agile environment while providing consistent application lifecycle management.

Qualifications, Knowledge, and Experience:

• The successful candidate will possess an outstanding record of professional experience and will thrive in an environment that demands accountability.
• He/She must possess significant technology management and product development experience. He/She must also have strong planning, organizational, communication skills, and be a key driver to help the team understand the big picture perspective.
• Proven leader of technology solutions in a high-volume transaction environment.
• Accomplished leader with 5+ years managing regional and global areas.
• Have excellent time management, communication, decision-making, presentation, and organizational skills.
• Maintain excellent written and verbal communications with clients, employees, and management chain, including status reports, project plans, presentations, etc.
• Ability to lead across functions and motivate a matrix staff.