DevOps Manager - Sembi

Sembi is a leader in software quality and security management, offering a comprehensive suite of tools that enhance testing, strengthen security, and accelerate product delivery. By unifying industry-leading solutions like TestRail, Xray, Testmo, Ranorex, Kiuwan, and PreEmptive, Sembi empowers development teams to build software the world can rely on. DevOps Manager Reporting to the Sr Director of IT and DevOps, the DevOps Manager plays a critical role in leading infrastructure and delivery operations across multiple brands and product lines with diverse tech stacks. This is a technical management position with a hands-on focus on tooling, environments, automation, and observability. The ideal candidate will guide a team of DevOps engineers while collaborating with product, engineering, and IT leadership to deliver reliable, scalable infrastructure and streamlined deployment pipelines. Key Responsibilities

• Personnel Leadership:

• Lead a team of DevOps engineers supporting multiple cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, and incident response processes

• Mentor engineers on both their technical skills & knowledge alongside their communication & teamwork dynamics

• Project & Process Leadership:

• Lead agile ceremonies for core DevOps engineering teams including sprint-based planning, commitments, velocity and retrospectives

• Identify and drive investments in automation that shift work from senior engineers to junior operations engineers for continuous efficiency improvement

• Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to align deployment and SRE practices with agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban)

• Partner with engineering teams to improve deployment velocity, rollback safety, and environment parity

• Participate in incident response reviews and postmortems; help establish a culture of reliability and learning

• Support documentation, runbooks, and internal knowledge sharing via Jira and Confluence

• Technical Leadership:

• Guide and evolve infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform, Helm, and related tooling

• Drive containerization and Kubernetes orchestration best practices across brands and platforms

• Oversee observability tooling and alerting, including Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, PagerDuty, and Opsgenie

• Own operational standards for CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions and CircleCI

Requirements

• Process Leadership:

• Ability to lead an agile DevOps engineering process utilizing ticketing tools such as Atlassian JIRA to administer the process and make status transparent to stakeholders

• Ability to schedule repeated operational activities such as upgrades, maintenance windows, health checks and associated repeat ops tasks

• Defining an on-call schedule to engage personnel in the event of a severe emergency leveraging alerting tools such as PagerDuty, Opsgenie, etc

• Familiarity with GitHub, Jira, and Confluence in engineering team workflows

• Solid grasp of agile development methodologies and team operations

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of working across engineering and product teams

Technical Leadership:

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles, including 2+ years in a lead or managerial capacity.

• Proven experience managing and deploying Kubernetes workloads in production.

• Deep knowledge of infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm, or equivalent).

• Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker), CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, CircleCI), and modern cloud deployment strategies.

• Proficiency with observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting multiple brands or business units across diverse tech stacks.

• Exposure to cloud-native security practices, RBAC, and secrets management.

• Familiarity with cost optimization and cloud spend reporting.

• Experience with incident command or formalized incident response frameworks.

• Comfortable scripting in Bash, Python, or Go for automation tasks.

• Prior involvement in DevOps maturity assessments, tooling selection, or team scaling.

An Equal Opportunity Employer - All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that Sembi, Inc. will process and retain your resume and related personal information solely for recruitment and hiring purposes. Resumes of unsuccessful candidates will be securely deleted within twelve (12) months of the hiring decision, unless a longer period is required by law or you provide explicit consent for continued retention (e.g., for consideration for future opportunities).

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