DevOps Manager

Job Description:

Position Summary:

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic DevOps Manager to join Alpine's software development organization. As the DevOps Manager, you will play a pivotal role in leading our DevOps team and driving the strategy, design, and execution of build, deployment, and infrastructure automation initiatives across the organization. You will be responsible for fostering a culture of automation, reliability, and continuous improvement while ensuring scalable, secure, and efficient delivery pipelines that empower our development teams to ship high-quality software faster.

Core Responsibilities:

• Leadership: Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of DevOps Engineers to achieve their full potential. Provide guidance, support, and coaching to foster professional growth and maintain a high-performing team.
• DevOps Strategy: Define and execute Alpine's DevOps strategy, roadmap, and standards to drive automation, reliability, and operational excellence across the software development lifecycle.
• CI/CD Pipeline Management: Oversee the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and release management processes to enable fast, reliable, and repeatable software delivery.
• Infrastructure Automation: Lead efforts to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools and modern DevOps practices.
• Cloud Operations: Direct the planning, provisioning, and administration of cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or Google), ensuring scalability, security, performance, and cost optimization.
• Tooling and Platform Management: Oversee the management and evolution of source control, CI/CD, and Atlassian toolchains (Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence) used by software development teams.
• Monitoring and Observability: Establish monitoring, logging, and observability practices to proactively identify, alert on, and resolve issues across pipelines, environments, and applications.
• DevSecOps: Champion the integration of security and compliance into the development and deployment lifecycle, partnering with security and architecture teams to embed best practices.
• Communication and Collaboration: Foster effective communication within the team and with stakeholders including software development, QA, product owners, architects, and divisional leadership.
• Continuous Improvement: Continuously evaluate DevOps processes, methodologies, and tools, driving improvements that optimize delivery velocity, quality, and reliability.
• Digital Transformation: Lead the development of innovative DevOps solutions that support and accelerate Alpine's digital transformation strategy.

Job Requirements:

• Proven experience (5+ years) as a DevOps Manager, DevOps Lead, or similar leadership role in a software development environment.
• Strong technical background in DevOps engineering, CI/CD, build systems, and release management.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience managing and configuring build pipelines and CI/CD using platforms such as Azure DevOps.
• Experience with Microsoft .NET build processes and tools such as MS Build, Wix, and Microsoft Visual Studio.
• Strong knowledge of software development methodologies, branching/merging strategies, and release management processes.
• Demonstrated proficiency with scripting languages such as PowerShell, Python, or Windows Batch.
• Experience provisioning and administering cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, ARM templates, CloudFormation) and configuration management.
• Experience managing and configuring Agile project management tools such as Atlassian Jira.
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and observability tools and practices.
• Champion of Agile software development methodology using Scrum and/or Kanban.
• Excellent problem solving and strong analytical skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, leadership, and organizational skills.
• Ability to create detailed documentation, training materials, and facilitate training on DevOps practices.

Competencies:

• Building Partnerships: Identifying opportunities and acting to build strategic relationships between one's area and other areas, teams, departments, units, or organizations to help achieve business goals.
• Initiating Action: Taking prompt action to accomplish objectives; acting to achieve goals beyond what is required; being proactive.
• Communication: Clearly conveying information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.
• Innovation: Generating innovative solutions in work situations; trying different and novel ways to deal with work problems and opportunities.
• Adaptability: Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work tasks or the work environment; adjusting effectively to work within new work structures, processes, requirements, or cultures.
• Analytical: The ability to collect and analyze information, problem-solve, and make decisions with the goals of helping the company solve problems and/or improve upon overall productivity and success.
• Quality Orientation: Accomplishing tasks by considering all areas involved, no matter how small; showing concern for all aspects of the job; accurately checking processes and tasks.
• Results-driven: The ability to select and deliver the most efficient and productive options backed by information and data-driven rationale.
• Building the Team: Attracting, developing, and retaining talented individuals; evaluating key strengths and development needs for the team and providing learning opportunities that enable associates to realize their potential.
• Continuous Learning: Actively identifying new areas for learning; regularly creating and taking advantage of learning opportunities; using newly gained knowledge and skill on the job and learning through their application.

ITW is an equal opportunity employer. We value our colleagues' unique perspectives, experiences and ideas and create workplaces where everyone can develop their careers and perform to their full potential.

As an equal employment opportunity employer, ITW is committed to equal employment opportunity and fair treatment for employees, beginning with the hiring process and continuing through all aspects of the employment relationship.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, disability, protected Veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.