DevOps Manager

About Delta Intelligent Building Technologies (Canada) Inc.(formerly known as Delta Controls).

Delta Intelligent Building Technologies (Canada) Inc. (a subsidiary of Delta Electronics) is a leading building controls manufacturer with over 300 partners in more than 80 countries. For over three decades we have provided innovative building automation solutions for commercial healthcare education and leisure facilities. We delivered the worlds first fully integrated BACnet building solution for HVAC lighting and access control.

Job Summary

The DevOps Manager owns DevOps practice tooling and release management across the entire Product Development department. This role is accountable for release and deployment success and works collaboratively with each products DevOps Specialist and team lead to resolve issues. The role also owns operations and maintenance of the departments shared DevOps tooling including source control and code quality platforms and owns the enterprise On-Call/incident response program for SaaS applications.

DevOps Specialists embedded within individual product teams continue to report administratively to their Team Leads or Enterprise Directors; the DevOps Manager is their functional manager setting technical direction and standards for the discipline org-wide without holding direct people-management responsibility over them.

Duties & Responsibilities

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Release & Pipeline Management

• Accountable for the overall success of build and deployment processes across all PD products reliability consistency and adherence to DevOps standards partnering with each products DevOps Specialist and team lead to diagnose and resolve issues
• Define and promote consistent merge/branching/release standards across PD; work with product teams to adopt them
• Advise and coordinate on deployment windows and cadence for products to avoid cross-team conflicts
• Maintain and continually improve CI/CD infrastructure standards across PD

Enterprise DevOps Tooling

• Own operations maintenance and administration of enterprise DevOps tooling used across Product Development (GitLab SonarQube Jenkins and others)
• Ensure availability performance and security of these platforms including upgrades patching and capacity planning
• Manage access permissions and integration of these tools across product teams and global offices
• Evaluate select and onboard new enterprise DevOps tooling as the departments needs evolve
• Maintain licensing vendor relationships and cost management for owned tooling

Functional Management of DevOps Specialists

• Set technical direction standards and best practices for all DevOps Specialists in PD
• Provide technical mentorship coaching and career guidance to DevOps Specialists across the organization
• Conduct technical reviews of DevOps Specialists work as input to their performance reviews (in partnership with their direct managers)
• Identify practice or performance concerns and raise them with the DevOps Specialists manager; work collaboratively with the engineer to implement the agreed resolution
• Participate in hiring processes for new DevOps Specialists across PD (technical evaluation/input)

On-Call Program Ownership

• Own the enterprise on-call/incident response program in its entirety including tooling escalation policies and rotation structure
• Drive the phased rollout: runbook completion tool launch and progression to full 24x7 coverage
• Set and enforce runbook standards and completion requirements across product teams
• Own incident response process design including severity definitions escalation paths and post-incident review process
• Coordinate with product/team leads to ensure adequate on-call staffing and rotation fairness

General

• Continually improve DevOps and release practices based on incident trends release outcomes and team feedback
• Report on release health deployment frequency/failure rate and on-call/incident metrics to the Chief Product Development Officer

Required or preferred skills and abilities

• Strong technical communication and cross-team influence skills able to enforce standards across multiple offices and teams
• Demonstrated experience managing or leading release/deployment processes at scale across more than one product line
• Experience administering enterprise DevOps tooling (e.g. GitLab SonarQube or equivalents)
• Experience designing or running an on-call/incident response program
• Knowledge of CI/CD tooling and practices (e.g. GitLab CI/CD Jenkins Kubernetes/Helm)
• Ability to mentor coach and hold accountable team members outside a direct reporting line
• Outstanding diagnostic and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of SDLC application architecture deployment and infrastructure practices across multiple products
• Conflict resolution skills particularly for cross-team/cross-office release disputes

Minimum Qualifications:

• College diploma or University degree in computer science information systems or software engineering or equivalent experience
• 5 years of experience in DevOps release engineering or related infrastructure roles
• Prior experience in a functional/matrixed management role (technical authority without direct people-management authority) preferred
• Experience running or building an incident response/on-call program preferred
• Experience administering source control and code quality platforms at scale preferred

Work Location: In-office environment that is currently 3 days per week
City: Surrey
Type: full-time Permanent
Salary: 108000 - 122000 CAD
This range reflects the minimum and maximum target payable for the base salary of new hires across all Canadian locations. Actual compensation may vary outside this range and is dependent on various factors.

Why work for us

We provide fantastic opportunities to individuals passionate about business and technology. Delta Electronics products are the most energy efficient power products in the industry and our company is perfect for those who want to create design and build sustainable solutions using massively scalable big-data architecture with a strong focus on building automation. Here are some of the Delta perks youll receive from day 1!

• Employee & safety centric culture with the possibility of remote work
• Flexible hours and scheduling available
• Competitive total compensation along with generous vacation allowances
• Three weeks of vacation
• In-house & external training provided along with education support and opportunities for growth
• Company funded annual personal development budget
• Financial benefits & planning such as group RRSP & company match
• Employer paid premiums for extended healthcare and family-focused benefits (health vision and dental)
• Travel insurance coverage and access to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Wellness - onsite fitness center & company reimbursement for personal gym memberships
• Internal Recognition & Service Awards
• Employee Referral bonuses
• Transit accessible with free onsite parking
• Regular company events such as Food Truck Fridays Lunch & Learn and other planned activities.