Manager DevOps-006332

Summary: The Manager, DevOps will be accountable for overseeing a team of DevOps Engineers, Release Engineers, and Tool Administrators. As a Manager, the incumbent will be heavily involved in both development and operations, with responsibility for implementing and managing release processes for the progression of code in the integration, development, test, and production environments.

This will be a key strategic role, partnering with multiple organizations and technologies to design and implement a robust strategy and process for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, through multiple test environments.

Job Responsibilities:

• Assess and recommend common tooling for a diverse set of technology, applications and platforms.
• Establish standards for continuous integration and delivery processes across the enterprise.
• In collaboration with engineering and production, design and implement automated deployments of infrastructure and software changes, through various test environments.
• Manage risks and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule, and quality.
• Negotiate, plan, and manage all release activities.
• Partner with infrastructure teams to provision virtual machines with proper requirements, utilizing scripts and automation tools.
• Regular communications and status update to senior leadership on release status and progress on team initiatives.
• Mentoring, training, and day to day management for a team of release engineers, DevOps engineers and tool administrators.
• Actively removing barriers for team members to ensure all activities proceed on schedule and within budget.
• Helps foster a culture of continuous improvement and best practices. Constantly explores ways to increase efficiencies and productivity by reducing waste and avoid unnecessary costs.
• Continuously reviews department strategy and is a champion for new ideas that drive innovative thinking and actions.
• Provides ongoing mentoring, guidance and troubleshooting support to engineering teams on how to streamline build, automation and deployment processes.
• Establish standards for effective enterprise-wide Software Configuration Management.
• Integrate performance and security validation to continuous delivery pipeline.
• Ensure all continuous integration and delivery processes meet audit guidelines, properly storing all required documentation and approvals.
• Design all CI/CD solutions for reuse, with repeatable, reliable, and scalable tooling and processes.
• Perform ongoing evaluations of industry trends and tooling, to ensure we are providing best in class solutions.
• Ensures appropriate, timely, and effective escalation of issues and major risks to senior IT Management and/or functional area management.
• Fosters a transparent and proactive culture to identify, communicate, and mitigate issues and risks.
• Ensures that department managers, team members and support processes meet or exceed the Enterprise IT, Security, Architecture and Corporate Audit approved standards & methodologies.
• Consistently demonstrates high standards of integrity by supporting the Lifetime Healthcare Companies' mission and values, adhering to the Corporate Code of Conduct and leading to the Lifetime Way values and beliefs.
• Maintains high regard for member privacy in accordance with the corporate privacy policies and procedures.
• Maintains knowledge of all relevant legislative and regulatory mandates and ensures that all activities are in compliance with these requirements.
• Conducts periodic staff meetings to include timely distribution and education related to departmental and Ethics/Compliance information.
• Regular and reliable attendance is expected and required.
• Performs other duties and functions as assigned by management.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or relevant field. Masters preferred.
• Ten years related work experience.
• Working knowledge of IT best practices, cloud services, virtual machines, and open source technologies.
• Broad working knowledge of build automation, deployment and configuration management tools.
• Extensive experience across the software development lifecycle with an emphasis on rigorous development practices, including software version control, coding standards and naming conventions.
• Demonstrated ability to understand root-causes of complex systems issues - and provide debugging support as needed.
• Proactive personality with a proven track record of following through and delivering on responsibilities.
• Demonstrated competencies of managing staff and leadership.
• Highly adaptive worker with experience influencing and working as part of an extended team.
• Proven ability to work effectively with other organizations and business departments.
• Experience managing third-party contracts (both vendors and contingent staff) preferred.

Travel Requirements:

Ability to independently travel across region.

The Lifetime Healthcare Companies aims to attract the best talent from diverse socioeconomic, cultural and experiential backgrounds, to diversify our workforce and best reflect the communities we serve.

Our mission is to foster an environment where diversity and inclusion are explicitly recognized as fundamental parts of our organizational culture. We believe that diversity of thought and background drives innovation which enables us to provide leading-edge healthcare insurance and services. With that mission in mind, we recruit the best candidates from all communities, to diversify and strengthen our workforce.

OUR COMPANY CULTURE: Employees are united by our Lifetime Way Values & Behaviors that include compassion, pride, excellence, innovation and having fun! We aim to be an employer of choice by valuing workforce diversity, innovative thinking, employee development, and by offering competitive compensation and benefits.

In support of the Americans with Disabilities Act, this job description lists only those responsibilities and qualifications deemed essential to the position.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)