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DevOps Manager

Sailes

Sailes

Software Engineering, Operations
Alpharetta, GA, USA
Posted on Mar 9, 2026
Job Title

DevOps Manager

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Manager to lead and scale our DevOps practice, ensuring reliable CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure stability, security, and high system availability. This role bridges development, QA, operations, and security teams to enable faster and safer software delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Strategy

  • Lead, mentor, and manage the DevOps team
  • Define DevOps vision, roadmap, and best practices
  • Drive automation, scalability, reliability, and cost optimization
  • Collaborate with Engineering, QA, Product, and Security teams

CI/CD & Release Management

  • Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins
  • Ensure smooth build, test, and deployment workflows
  • Implement release strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling deployments)

Cloud & Infrastructure Management

  • Manage cloud infrastructure on AWS / Azure / GCP
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or CloudFormation
  • Ensure high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery

Containerization & Orchestration

  • Oversee containerized environments using Docker
  • Manage Kubernetes clusters using Kubernetes
  • Ensure secure and optimized container deployments

Monitoring, Observability & Reliability

  • Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions
  • Track system health, SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets
  • Lead incident management and root cause analysis (RCA)

Security & Compliance

  • Enforce DevSecOps practices
  • Ensure secrets management, access control, and compliance standards
  • Perform regular audits and vulnerability management

Required Skills

Technical Skills

  • Strong experience in DevOps, Cloud, and Infrastructure Engineering
  • CI/CD pipeline design and automation
  • Cloud networking, security, and cost optimization
  • Linux system administration
  • Scripting (Bash, Python)

Leadership & Soft Skills

  • Team leadership and mentoring
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management
  • Problem-solving and decision-making skills
  • Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments

Nice to Have

  • Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana)
  • SRE background
  • Cloud or Kubernetes certifications
  • Experience managing large-scale production systems

Experience & Education

  • 812 years of IT experience
  • 35 years in a DevOps Lead or Manager role
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering / Computer Science or equivalent experience