As IT Manager DevOps you will define and architect the deployment automation and management of our cloud applications portfolio and infrastructure. The DevOps team works closely with platform engineering teams infrastructure architects product owners and stakeholders to establish and maintain efficient CI/CD pipelines deployments. Supports the DevOps team with scripting and automating all environments software deployments and its supporting infrastructure.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead a global team of fifteen DevOps engineers distributed over different geographies towards the success of different initiatives.
- Develop and implement the DevOps and DevSecOps strategies aligning it with the companys goals and objectives.
- Establish and maintain best practices for infrastructure automation continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) monitoring and release management.
- Implement a Community of Practices (CoP) evangelizing the best practices in different DevOps topics such as deployment methods branching strategies etc.
- Drive automation initiatives to streamline operational tasks including infrastructure provisioning release notes configuration management and deployment processes.
- Implement and ensure DevOps metrics are met.
- Implement strategy to reduce technical backlog.
- Ensure DevOps guidelines are uptodate.
- Stay up to date with industry trends emerging technologies and best practices related to DevOps CI/CD and infrastructure automation. Proactively propose and implement innovative solutions to optimize software delivery and deployment.
- Participate in recruitment of IT support personnel.
- Compliance with regulatory requirements Security policies and SOX related activities
- Schedule personnel job duties to provide the necessary coverage.
- Organize verbal and written ideas clearly and use an appropriate business style.
- Provide regular updates to appropriate managers.
- Assure that procedures and work instructions are efficient and not redundant.
- Demonstrate a commitment to customer service; anticipate meet and exceed expectations by solving problems quickly and effectively making customer issues a priority.
- Confer with reporting manager on complex or unusual situations.
- Ensure 100 adherence to all company policies and procedures (i.e. Security Health Safety and Quality).
- Maintain discretion and confidentiality in all areas pertaining to data and proprietary information whether internal to PPG or customerspecific.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure with changing priorities and deadlines.
- Understand and embrace the business and IT strategic direction.
- Understand business processes and business tools in the current environment.
- Project management as required.
- Organize 24 / 7 support with the team.
- May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelors degree in computer science information technology or related field or equivalent work experience.
- Minimum of three plus 4 years of experience as a Developer and/or DevOps engineer.
- Minimum of two plus 2 years leading DevOps teams including setting roadmaps running agile processes performance management conflict resolution and career development.
- Strong experience and proficiency with DevOps tooling containers scripting source control and workflows using Docker Kubernetes Terraform Git Azure DevOps.
- Strong experience and proficiency creating enhancing and maintaining CI/CD processes and tools in Azure Pipelines.
- Experience driving change across organizations as it pertains to the culture of DevOps.
- Strong understanding of monitoring and logging management (e.g. App Insights Prometheus Grafana).
- Strong experience in software development methodologies including Agile Waterfall
- Demonstrated leadership experience.
- Project management experience.
- Interpersonal skills in working with the management and technical teams in a selfstarter role.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong attention to the detail.
ADVANTAGE
- Agile project experience.
- ITIL experience.
- Experience with working in a wellestablished DevOps environment
- DevOps certifications (e.g. AWS DevOps Engineer Professional Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert)
- Facilitating roadmapping workshops
- Familiarity with custom software development toolset
PPG pay ranges and benefits can vary by location which allows us to compensate employees competitively in different geographic markets. PPG considers several factors in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets experience and training qualifications and education licensure and certifications and other organizational needs. Other incentives may apply.
Our employee benefits programs are designed to support the health and wellbeing of our employees. Any insurance coverages and benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.
Required Experience:
Manager