The goal of a DevOps Lead / Technical Project Manager is to ensure fast, reliable, and secure deployment of software products. They will oversee infrastructure design, automation strategies, cloud architecture, monitoring solutions, and cross-team collaboration. They will also manage hiring, budgeting, and delivery timelines within the engineering function.
This is a 12+ month project requiring onsite hybrid work in Plano, TX.
Role :
- Managing and mentoring DevOps and infrastructure engineers
- Defining standards for deployment pipelines, monitoring, and tooling
- Overseeing production environments and ensuring system reliability
- Leading automation efforts across build, test, and release pipelines
- Coordinating with development, QA, and SRE teams on delivery processes
- Ensuring security best practices are followed across infrastructure
- Managing incident response, platform KPIs, and escalation processes
- Supporting infrastructure cost control and vendor management
- Reporting on environment health, delivery timelines, and DevOps impact
Driving DevOps maturity and adoption of infrastructure-as-code principles This role blends team leadership with platform oversight and cross-functional coordination. DevOps manager will lead teams focused on infrastructure, automation, and deployments.
- 8-10 years of experience in DevOps or platform engineering roles
- Experience leading technical teams or cross-functional squads
- Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure, automation, and delivery tooling
- Confidence managing infrastructure projects and system upgrades
- Experience defining SLAs, monitoring standards, and incident processes
- Skilled in budgeting, team development, and performance management
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and container orchestration
- Ability to align platform reliability with business goals
- Comfortable working across engineering, QA, and product functions
- Bridge Teams: Unify Dev, Ops, Security, and Product for shared goals.
- Technical Strategy: Ensure architecture supports rapid, reliable releases (e.g., A/B testing, frequent deployments).
- Tool Expertise: Understand and leverage version control, CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab).
- Workflow Management: Oversee the entire lifecycle (plan, code, build, test, deploy, monitor, feedback) using Agile/Lean principles.
- Automation Focus: Drive automation of repetitive tasks to reduce errors and speed delivery.
- Data-Driven Decisions: Use metrics (velocity, uptime) for continuous improvement and problem-solving Skills:
- Agile/Scrum/Kanban
- CI/CD Concepts & Tools
- Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Scripting & IaC (Python)
- Collaboration & Communication
