About this role
About the Role As IT Manager, you will lead the vision and architecture for deployment, automation, and management of our cloud application portfolio. You will play a key role in shaping how we deliver scalable, reliable, and modern solutions, driving innovation while ensuring operational excellence across all environments.
In this role, you will partner closely with platform engineering teams, infrastructure architects, product owners, and key stakeholders to design and continuously enhance efficient CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices. You will establish clear direction, priorities, and governance to enable high-performing teams and consistent delivery outcomes. You will also lead and develop the DevOps team, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. By setting clear objectives and aligning team efforts with organizational goals, you will drive delivery excellence, improve operational efficiency, and ensure consistent, high-quality outcomes across the application lifecycle. In this leadership role, your impact will extend beyond technology, you will shape the team culture, elevate performance standards, and drive meaningful business outcomes. What You'll Do
- Lead a global team of fifteen DevOps engineers distributed over different geographies towards the success of different initiatives.
- Develop and implement the DevOps and DevSecOps strategies, aligning it with the company's goals and objectives.
- Establish and maintain best practices for infrastructure automation, continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), monitoring, and release management.
- Implement a Community of Practices (CoP), evangelizing the best practices in different DevOps topics, such as deployment methods, branching strategies, etc.
- Drive automation initiatives to streamline operational tasks, including infrastructure provisioning, release notes, configuration management, and deployment processes.
- Implement and ensure DevOps metrics are met.
- Implement strategy to reduce technical backlog.
- Ensure DevOps guidelines are up-to-date.
- Stay up to date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices related to DevOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation.
- Proactively propose and implement innovative solutions to optimize software delivery and deployment.
- Participate in recruitment of IT support personnel.
- Compliance with regulatory requirements, Security policies, and SOX related activities.
- Schedule personnel job duties to provide the necessary coverage.
- Organize verbal and written ideas clearly and use an appropriate business style. Provide regular updates to appropriate managers.
- Assure that procedures and processes are documented and followed. What We're Looking For
- Experience leading a global DevOps team (15 engineers) across multiple geographies.
- Strong background in infrastructure automation, CI/CD, monitoring, and release management, with DevOps and DevSecOps practices.
- Ability to build and nurture Communities of Practice and evangelize best practices.
- Track record of driving automation, governance, and operational efficiency.
- Experience with recruitment and development of IT staff.
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements and security policies, including SOX.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills, with the ability to align team efforts with business goals.