Sr Manager, DevOps

| Greater Denver Area
Sorry, this job was removed at 4:04 p.m. (MST) on Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Find out who's hiring in Greater Denver Area.
See all Developer + Engineer jobs in Greater Denver Area
Apply
By clicking Apply Now you agree to share your profile information with the hiring company.

 

The Geospatial Cloud Services (GCS) Release Train has an opening for a Senior Manager, DevOps. The DevOps Senior Manager leads a team responsible for deploying, operating, troubleshooting, and improving a complex geospatial hosting and streaming platform that runs across multiple networks and environments. This role is responsible for leading DevOps for online platforms that have a direct impact on innovation, revenue growth, profitability and efficiency for the company.

The DevOps Senior Manager leads the DevOps team and works to improve user and stakeholder satisfaction on a continuing basis.  On a day-to-day basis, the DevOps Senior Manager works closely with the DevOps team, software development team, IT, company stakeholders, and customers.  A strong focus on the customer -- communications, support and advocacy -- is crucial.  The role also involves interfacing with DigitalGlobe’s three internal market segments (Commercial, USG, and ID&I) and other development and customer team members across the company.  Process improvement on internal and external processes to improve customer satisfaction and team efficiency is essential.

A successful candidate in this role is a customer & solutions-focused leader with experience leading DevOps teams and working to ensure and constantly improve process and technical solutions to in a data driven manner.  The GCS DevOps leader will be viewed as a critical member of the GCS leadership team.

 Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Manages personnel on DevOps team (Performance Reviews, growth plans, 1x1s, etc)
  • Performs stakeholder outreach and communication for platform changes, deploy process, and updates.
  • Understands developer and customer workflows and ensures that feedback is incorporated into DevOps roadmaps.
  • Works closely with GCS Tech Support to coordinate all system downtime and impacts to customers
  • Tracks relevant metrics on platform uptime, SLAs, and system performance.
  • Communicates and works well with USG, Commercial, and ID&I stakeholders.
  • Optimizes DevOps structure and ConOps to provide best possible customer (internal and external) experience
  • Participates in train wide activities such as Release Planning, Sprint Demos, Product Council, etc.
  • Builds and maintains effective on-boarding and training materials to quickly ramp up the team when needed
  • Leads DevOps and the platform at large through changes (such as standing up new environments, cloud migrations, etc)
  • Performs other duties as assigned

Basic Qualifications:

  • 10+ years professional experience in a technical, product-oriented field
  • 5+ years direct DevOps experience
  • 5+ years direct management and leadership experience
  • Ability to obtain US Government security clearance
  • Bachelor’s degree

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master’s degree
  • Positive, results oriented approach
  • Ability to stay calm and focused under pressure
  • Excellent communication ability, both with customers and engineering teams
  • Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams and provide best-in class support and process improvements
  • Ability to partner and negotiate with leaders in and outside of the GCS organization
  • Some geospatial/GIS, image processing, military, or cyber security experience
  • Hands on, tangible AWS Experience
  • Specific work experience managing and automating complex deploy scenarios

DigitalGlobe and Radiant solutions offer a generous compensation package including a competitive salary; choice of medical plan; dental, life, and disability insurance; a 401(K) plan with competitive company match; paid holidays and paid time off.

Read Full Job Description
Apply Now
By clicking Apply Now you agree to share your profile information with the hiring company.

Location

Our location is just steps away from plenty of expansive open space, restaurants, and bars. We are less than a 5 minute walk from an RTD Park-n-Ride.

Similar Jobs

Apply Now
By clicking Apply Now you agree to share your profile information with the hiring company.
Learn more about DigitalGlobeFind similar jobs