Director of DevOps – Cloud, Scalability, Tooling, Monitoring, Infrastructure, Containers, Microservices – Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes Full Time

Our well funded ad tech client, backed by one of the largest tech investors in the world, is seeking a Director of DevOps to be responsible for scaling and managing service offerings on the public cloud and private data centers. You will be in charge of the deployment and monitoring of all the software and infrastructure of the production and non-production systems. The solution is comprised of multiple in-house developed microservices, and incorporates several third-party open source tools/technologies.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a diverse global team of DevOps engineers.
• Recruit, manage, train, guide and mentor your teams and enable a culture of quality, personal accountability, and teamwork across functions and partner/customers.
• Work with cross-functional teams collaborating during conceptual design, development, implementation and deployment.
• Work in sync with service providers, and partners in determining the best/appropriate technical solutions for achieving operational excellence and business continuity.
• Build best-in-class technical operations centered functions for the overall monitoring, alerting, management and escalation of all technology infrastructure services.
• Define and manage the SLAs and metrics for the production operations.
• Support modern technology stack for Engineering team that will deliver new product for continuous rapid agile release cycles (incl. Development, DevOps, Databases, Containers, and Cloud technologies).
• Lead by example – sometimes that means doing hands-on work.

Requirements

• 10+ years of technical experience in Systems/Operations and 5+ years of management experience preferably in a start-up environment.
• Experience managing DevOps teams, preferably including remote teams.
• Experience working with relevant tools/technologies/languages (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Packer, Terraform, Python, Bash, JSON, YAML, SQL/NoSQL, HDFS, HBase, HIVE, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, etc.).
• Experience in development, deploying and managing software in Public (AWS/GCP/etc.) and/or Private cloud environment.
• Experience in setup and managing DevTest (Pre-Production) and Production environment.
• A bachelors or masters degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
• Ability to adapt to tight deadlines and changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communications (both verbal and written), analytical and troubleshooting skills.