Job Description
We are looking for an experienced and motivated manager to take a lead role at a fast-growing, innovative biotechnology company. As DevOps Manager/Architect, you will manage the DevOps team’s delivery of infrastructure, security, CI/CD, and internal tooling services to meet the needs of the business developed in consultation with our research scientists, computational biologists, front-end, and back-end teams.
The DevOps Manager/Architect will manage the evolution and operations of the company's production and development environments. Responsibilities will include delivering a scalable, resilient, and cost-effective architecture and building a team of first-class professionals by guiding and leading, planning career paths, and improving the hiring process.
The Role Is:
- Full-time
- Fully remote
- No agencies
- Euro hours
- Salary: From $60k – $120k per year, in accordance with abilities, skills, experience, level of English proficiency, and location. Equity is also available.
Responsibilities:
- Managing the team of DevOps engineers.
- DevOps project planning and management with best practices in mind: prioritize work based on business and developer requirements.
- Effectively communicating with multiple teams, departments, and management representatives.
- Be the team voice in meetings.
- Mentor team members in terms of their personal development, goals, and advancement.
- Developing and delivering on OKRs and/or KPIs.
- Hire, develop and retain top talent. Set objectives, manage performance and coach your team to help them achieve their career goals.
- Oversee delivery of projects, ensure high quality, on time and on budget delivery and customer satisfaction.
- Mitigation of delivery risks and issues.
Required Skills & Experience:
- At least 6 years experience in DevOps, SysOps, or related roles.
- Excellent soft skills necessary in order to be an effective team leader, such as:
- Problem-solving
- Communication
- Negotiation
- Analysis
- General understanding of the technologies involved in our projects:
- AWS
- Containerized applications
- Infrastructure as code
- CI/CD
- Microservices architecture
- Solid hands on experience delivering business value to customers with DevOps or Cloud solutions.
- Has presented to Sr. Managers/Directors as well as to technical subject matter experts. Routinely engages at these levels with customers, as well as with their consulting partners.
- Deep understanding of cloud computing change management challenges and solutions.
- Deep and advanced experience and understanding of leading Agile ecosystems (SAFE, Scrum, Kanban) and Lean systems thinking.
- Working knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies required. Scrum Master experience a plus.
- Able to lead and contribute to the creation of best practices, packaged offering, white papers, workshops, etc.
- Demonstrated creativity and ability to develop innovative solutions to complex business and technology problems.
- Strong verbal and written communications skills Strong organizational and project management skills with an ability to manage numerous, competing demands from internal and external stakeholders and customers.