Technical Manager – DevSecOps Platform

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, plan, implement, operate, and support assigned technologies.
• Provide documented processes for first- and second-level support and act as a third-level support center of excellence.
• Ensure technology capacity and availability meet current and future business needs, while managing risk.
• Set team KPIs and provide accurate, timely reports and updates.
• Manage security policy compliance, audits, risks, exceptions, and operating-system patching.
• Support incident and problem management with third-level assistance, root-cause analysis, and recurrence prevention.
• Set performance objectives, manage staff development, allocate resources, and assign qualified project resources.
• Create business cases, conduct RFTs, and coordinate stakeholders to develop products and services.
• Manage team and technology budgets, cost of ownership, cost control, and financial reporting.
• Coordinate vendor contracts and monitor SLAs and value for money.
• Provide technical guidance on architecture strategy, standards, and technology design.
• Evaluate improvements and replacement technologies, and drive projects through assigned project managers.

Qualifications and experience

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline (12+3 or equivalent).
• 8+ years of technology experience in DevOps or DevSecOps environments.
• 5+ years leading DevSecOps adoption with hands-on expertise in GitLab CI/CD, Argo CD, Wiz, SonarQube, Nexus Pro, Vault, Liquibase, and Dynatrace.
• Experience defining SRE practices for critical services, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident management, and full-stack observability.
• Deep Kubernetes platform expertise, including OpenShift, AWS EKS, and Azure AKS.
• Strong hybrid and multi-cloud architecture knowledge across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Advanced Infrastructure as Code, automation, and Internal Developer Platform skills.
• Broad enterprise infrastructure knowledge, including networking, operating systems, storage, databases, security, and mainframe.
• Working knowledge of AI-enabled engineering topics and familiarity with ITIL, architecture governance, and IT cost management.
• Relevant CKA/CKS or AWS, Azure, or GCP professional-level certifications are advantageous.

Salary and benefits

• The posting describes an attractive tax-free salary and travel, leave, healthcare, transport, and life-insurance benefits; no salary amount or pay cadence is stated.

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