Senior Manager, DevOps

About Us
Planet DDS is a dynamic and rapidly growing dental software company, serving over 13,000 practices across the United States with over 118,000 users. The company delivers a complete platform of cloud-based SaaS solutions for dental practices, including Denticon Practice Management, Apteryx Imaging, Cloud 9 Ortho Practice Management, and Legwork Patient Relationship Management. Planet DDS is committed to creating value for its dental practice clients by solving the most urgent challenges facing today’s dental practices.
This is a hybrid role working 2x per week in one of our office locations (Irvine, CA | Phoenix, AZ | Atlanta, GA | Akron, OH)
 
Job Description
Are you passionate about cloud infrastructure? Are you a hands-on leader who loves getting deep into the weeds as much as building a strong team of competent engineers? Then this role be for you.
 
We are looking for a leader to own the DevOps charter for Planet DDS. This is a highly visible and influential role with opportunity to work with the engineering leadership across the company. You will lead a distributed team in US and UK that currently supports our applications built on top of Azure, AWS and GCP. You will manage vendor relationships for these cloud vendors. You will drive efficiency across the engineering organization by optimizing cloud spend and influencing the architecture along the way.
 
Responsibilities

• Lead the DevOps team
• Drive FinOps charter across the company
• Build and execute on a roadmap of initiatives to optimize cloud spend
• Build and execute on a roadmap to build a highly scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure
• Build and execute roadmap of features to support the engineering organization for upcoming feature launches
• Establish and maintain best practices for cloud security, compliance, and cost optimization.
• Design, develop and maintain infrastructure using infrastructure as code tools
• Participate in code and design reviews to ensure the quality and maintainability of code.

Skills & Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of hands-on experience with Azure (required), AWS and GCP (preferred)
• Minimum 3 years of experience of leading a distributed team of infrastructure engineers
• Deep experience with FinOps and cost optimization
• Understanding of distributed system architecture
• Strong executor with ability to get things done
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.