DevOps Technical Team Lead, VP

Job summary

Lead the technical direction and delivery of a CI/CD platform that enables customers to build, validate, and deploy CRIMS customizations to dedicated SaaS-hosted environments. Guide a small development team while designing automation with Azure DevOps, Terraform, and Ansible, applying DevSecOps and LLM-based tools, and resolving production issues. Improve platform security, reliability, observability, performance, and developer experience in collaboration with clients and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience leading or coordinating a software engineering or DevOps team.
• At least 5 years of experience in a DevOps engineering or platform role.
• Hands-on experience with a major CI/CD system, such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, TeamCity, or CircleCI.
• Practical experience with Terraform, Ansible, and Docker.
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience with Python, Java, and SQL.
• Proficiency with GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or other agentic development tools and harnesses.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps, SDLC practices, vulnerability management, CVE workflows, penetration testing, and security scanning.
• Experience troubleshooting production systems and resolving complex technical issues.
• Experience with a major public cloud provider; Azure is preferred.
• Strong communication, documentation, analytical, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to translate client requirements into technical designs, estimates, and prioritized delivery plans.
• Familiarity with Liquibase and database change-management practices.
• Experience with .NET and C#.
• Experience building platforms for SaaS products or dedicated customer environments.
• Familiarity with cloud networking, identity and access management, monitoring, and secrets management.
• Experience implementing automated compliance, security gates, and release controls in CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines and platform capabilities.
• Define secure, scalable, and reliable automation for building and deploying client customizations.
• Develop infrastructure and deployment automation using Azure DevOps, Terraform, and Ansible.
• Use LLM-based tools to review proposed changes, identify risks, and troubleshoot issues.
• Establish DevSecOps practices, including security testing, vulnerability scanning, CVE remediation, penetration testing coordination, and secure releases.
• Troubleshoot production issues across pipelines, infrastructure, deployments, and customer environments.
• Lead technical estimation, prioritization, architecture decisions, and delivery planning.
• Collaborate with clients and stakeholders to refine requirements and define practical solutions.
• Lead and mentor a small development team.
• Maintain technical and architecture documentation, operational procedures, and support runbooks.
• Improve platform reliability, security, observability, performance, and developer experience.

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