Release/DevOps Manager

As DevOps/Release Manager you will be an integral part of our distributed team building and improving our cloud and DevOps platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of Release and DevOps engineers (4-5 People)
• Overseeing personnel management, evaluating individual and team performance
• Nurture DevOps culture
• Attract and retain talent
• Provide coaching, feedback and development opportunities to direct reports
• Work with business to define Service Level Objectives, adhere to them, report on metrics and hold teams accountable
• Own and improve incident response process
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment and Observability tools
• Cloud platform and infrastructure strategy and execution
• Interface with CTO, Account Strategists, QA and Dev teams.
• Advising executive team on cloud strategy and opportunities to innovate using cloud technologies

Must Have:

• Excellent communication skills and ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
• Experience leading teams in a scalable distributed systems environment
• Experience running production applications in AWS
• Experience managing Site Reliability, DevOps or Engineering teams
• Experience configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting the LAMP stack
• Linux knowledge on system administrator level
• Deep knowledge of continuous integration systems
• Experience with configuration management tools (we use Ansible and Terraform)
• Experience with hypervisors, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with the concept of distributed systems and limitations
• Database experience with MySQL and PostGreSQL

Nice to Have:

• Experience with AWS Lambda and Serverless applications
• Experience with GitLab AutoDevOps and GitOps
• Experience with PHP/Laravel and Composer
• Familiarity with ORM, such as Eloquent
• Familiarity with other persistent solutions, such as Redis and/or Elasticsearch
• Experience with Observability Platforms: New Relic, Sentry or any other platforms