Senior Manager, Cloud DevOps

& Summary Reporting to the DevOps & Platform Practice Lead, the Senior Manager will lead one or more DevOps and Platform engagements or workstreams end to end. You will turn the practice strategy into successful delivery, act as a design authority for your portfolio, manage client and stakeholder relationships, and contribute to the growth of the practice.

Key Responsibilities

• Project Team Leadership: Lead the project team of tech leads and engineers assigned to your engagements, setting project objectives, directing and reviewing their work, and building a high-performance, collaborative project culture
• Architecture and Design Authority: Act as a design authority for solutions within your portfolio; apply and help evolve the practice standards, reference architectures and governance frameworks
• Transformation Delivery: Lead DevOps and platform engineering transformation engagements, driving adoption of new practices across delivery and BAU teams and ensuring ongoing compliance
• Client and Stakeholder Management: Act as the key point of contact for clients and senior stakeholders on your engagements, communicating progress, risks and business value, and escalating to the Practice Lead where needed
• Risk, Resilience and Security: Embed DevSecOps, reliability and compliance into the platforms and processes you deliver; act as the escalation point for major incidents within your portfolio and ensure effective root-cause analysis and continuous improvement
• Practice Contribution: Support the Practice Lead with proposals, solution shaping and thought leadership, and work with fellow Senior Managers to share knowledge, reusable assets and best practices across the practice
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Experience

10+ years in software engineering and DevOps, including at least 3 years leading technical teams or tech leads. Proven track record delivering large-scale DevOps, cloud or platform engagements end to end. People Leadership: Experience leading, coaching and developing high-performing technical teams, including performance management. Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders and clients, translating technical solutions into business outcomes. Software Engineering: Strong software development background, ideally in Java and microservices, with the depth to guide architecture and engineering decisions. Branching and Deployment Strategies: Expertise in defining and implementing branching strategies (e.g., GitFlow, trunk-based development) and deployment strategies (e.g., blue-green deployments, canary releases) across teams. CI/CD and Platform Engineering: Experience designing and governing enterprise CI/CD and internal developer platforms using Jenkins, Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, and build tools such as Gradle. Cloud Platforms: Expertise in cloud architecture, with a preference for Azure; exposure to multi-cloud environments is an advantage. Containerization and Orchestration: Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and Helm charts at enterprise scale. Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management: Strong knowledge of Terraform, ARM or CloudFormation, and configuration management tools. Monitoring, Observability and SRE: Experience with APM tools such as Datadog, and with defining SLOs, reliability practices and incident management processes. Scripting Languages: Working knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, Bash or Java. Agile and Delivery Frameworks: Experience leading delivery within Agile frameworks (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and familiarity with IT service management practices (e.g., ITIL). Nice to haves: Certifications: Professional or expert-level Cloud/DevOps or architecture certifications (e.g.

Experience

Experience in a consulting or client-facing environment, including proposals and solution shaping.

Education

Bachelors education in a Computer Science/ IT / Communications Engineering Desired Candidate Profile

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