IT Manager – DevOps

Role Overview

• 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 work instructions are efficient and not redundant
• Demonstrate a commitment to customer service; anticipate, meet, and exceed expectations by solving problems quickly and effectively, making customer issues a priority
• Confer with reporting manager on complex or unusual situations
• Ensure 100% adherence to all company policies and procedures (i.e., Security, Health, Safety, and Quality)
• Maintain discretion and confidentiality in all areas pertaining to data and proprietary information, whether internal to PPG or customer-specific
• Ability to work effectively under pressure with changing priorities and deadlines
• Understand and embrace the business and IT strategic direction
• Understand business processes and business tools in the current environment
• Project management as required
• Organize 24/7 support with the team
• May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or related field or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of three plus (4+) years of experience as a Developer and/or DevOps engineer
• Minimum of two plus (2+) years leading DevOps teams including setting roadmaps, running agile processes, performance management, conflict resolution, and career development
• Strong experience and proficiency with DevOps tooling
• containers, scripting, source control, and workflows using Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Git, Azure DevOps
• Strong experience and proficiency creating, enhancing, and maintaining CI/CD processes and tools in Azure Pipelines
• Experience driving change across organizations as it pertains to the culture of DevOps
• Strong understanding of monitoring and logging management (e.g., App Insights, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Strong experience in software development methodologies including Agile, Waterfall
• Demonstrated leadership experience
• Project management experience
• Interpersonal skills in working with the management and technical teams in a “self-starter” role
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong attention to detail

Tech Stack

• Azure
• Docker
• Grafana
• Kubernetes
• Prometheus
• Terraform

Benefits

• Employee benefits programs designed to support health and well-being
• Opportunity to grow and develop your career in a fulfilling workplace
• Continuous learning environment and embraces diversity