Vice President DevSecOps & Automation Engineering

What You Need To Know

Shape a remarkable future with us. Build a career working for an industry leader that truly invests in their people and equips them with leading technology continuous learning and the ability to bring their best selves to work. As the premier wine and spirits distributor Southern Glazers isnt just one of Forbes Top Private Companies; its a family-owned business with deep roots dating back to 1933.

The reputation of Southern Glazers is well-established and its no surprise that we are regularly recognized for our culture. Southern Glazers has been recognized by Newsweek as one of Americas Greatest Workplaces for Inclusion and Diversity as well as for Women and Parents and Families. These accolades speak volumes about our commitment to creating a supportive and inclusive culture of belonging for all employees.

As a full-time employee you can choose from a wide-ranging menu of our Top Shelf Benefits including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage dental and vision plans tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts disability coverage life insurance plans and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition assistance a wellness program parental leave vacation accrual paid sick leave and more.

By joining Southern Glazers you would be part of a team that values excellence innovation and community. This is more than just a job its an opportunity to build the future of beverage distribution and grow with a company that truly cares about its people.

Overview

Do you love building secure automated and reliable platforms that let product teams ship faster with confidence SGWS is scaling a modern engineering ecosystem across Azure and AWS. Were looking for a senior technology leader to own the strategy and execution of DevSecOps and Automation Engineeringdriving platform capabilities (CI/CD IaC secrets policy-as-code) software supply chain security observability and reliability practices across a diverse digital portfolio. You will design the systems standards and operating models that enable dozens of product teams to deliver business value safely repeatably and at scale while cultivating a high-performing learning-oriented engineering culture.

Primary Responsibilities

Scope

• Own the enterprise DevSecOps & Automation strategy and evolve the operating model standards and platform capabilities that serve multiple product groups across the portfolio.
• Lead an organization of people leaders and senior ICs delivering CI/CD IaC cloud platform enablement and security automation for 60120 engineers through platform teams and communities of practice.
• Define and govern golden paths for build/test/release environment provisioning observability and incident management; ensure friction-free adoption by product teams.

Impact

• Set 12 year vision and quarterly objectives for DevSecOps and automation; align with Enterprise Architecture Security and Product leadership to drive portfolio outcomes.
• Improve delivery speed and stability via measurable engineering metrics (e.g. DORA/flow) and reliability measures (SLOs/error budgets) with transparent reporting to stakeholders.
• Ensure designs and solutions comply with SGWS architecture & engineering standards and are right-sized for risk.

DevSecOps & Platform Engineering

• Build and operate shared platform services: source control pipelines artifact repositories secret stores image registries policy engines scanning services and self-service environments.
• Establish policy-as-code and pipeline compliance gates for security privacy and quality; manage exceptions with time-boxed risk acceptance and remediation.
• Lead the software supply chain security program (SBOM signing provenance dependency governance) and coordinate with GRC for audit readiness.
• Partner with SRE leads to standardize observability incident response and post-incident learning across products.

Automation Engineering

• Drive end-to-end automation across build test deploy and run including test automation strategies environment automation and toil elimination.
• Curate reusable reference implementations and templates (infra pipelines service scaffolds) to accelerate product teams and reduce variability.

Leadership

• Drive end-to-end automation across build test deploy and run including test automation strategies environment automation and toil elimination.
• Curate reusable reference implementations and templates (infra pipelines service scaffolds) to accelerate product teams and reduce variability.
• Build coach and retain diverse high-performing teams; develop leaders of leaders and senior ICs; grow the internal talent pipeline.
• Chair or sponsor Communities of Practice for platform reliability and secure development; scale influence through enablement programs.

Strategic Contribution

• Translate business strategy into platform roadmaps and investment cases; sequence outcomes to maximize value while reducing risk.
• Evaluate and govern build/partner/buy decisions vendor performance and total cost of ownership for platform capabilities.

Delivery & Operational Excellence

• Ensure operational readiness and reliability for shared services (capacity planning DR runbooks SLAs).
• Lead major incident response as executive escalation point and drive a blameless learning culture.

Personal Development

• Model continuous learning; sponsor certification paths and internal upskilling programs aligned to SGWS job family expectations.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field; or equivalent experience.
• 12 years in software/platform engineering with 7 years leading DevOps/DevSecOps/SRE/platform teams; experience leading multiple managers and cross-portfolio initiatives.
• Proven success implementing enterprise CI/CD IaC at scale and security automation across hybrid cloud environments.
• Track record improving engineering throughput and reliability using metrics (e.g. DORA SLOs) and driving adoption across many teams.
• Excellent communication with senior executives and technical audiences; strong stakeholder and change management skills.
• Cloud & Platform: Azure and AWS services; landing zone architectures; container orchestration (AKS/EKS) serverless and edge services.
• CI/CD & Automation: We use Harness but familiarity with any of the following is relevant: GitHub/GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps; trunk-based development; progressive delivery (feature flags blue/green canary); pipeline compliance gates.
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (preferred) Bicep/CloudFormation; environment provisioning; drift detection; multi-account/multi-subscription governance.
• Security by Design: SAST DAST SCA container/image scanning SBOM secrets management (Key Vault/Secrets Manager) signed builds provenance/attestations policy-as-code (e.g. OPA/Conftest).
• Software Supply Chain: Dependency hygiene vulnerability management remediation SLAs secure artifact registries license compliance.
• Observability & Reliability: Centralized logging metrics tracing; SLIs/SLOs/error budgets; synthetic monitoring; incident command and post-incident review.
• Data Protection & Compliance: Zero trust principles; encryption tokenization data classification; alignment to SOC2/ISO standards in partnership with GRC.
• Automation at Scale: Event-driven orchestration workflow automation ChatOps self-service portals golden paths/templates and reusable reference architectures.
• Leadership Toolkit: Engineering metrics (DORA/flow) org health measures financial stewardship vendor management and leadership across multiple product groups.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree in a relevant field.
• Hands-on leadership with GitHub Enterprise/Azure DevOps Terraform Kubernetes and cloud security controls.
• Experience with software supply chain frameworks (e.g. SLSA) regulated environments and external audits (SOC 2/ISO 27001).
• Background building platform products and developer experience programs (DX).

Working Conditions & Additional Information

• Location: Hybrid
• Travel: 1020% for cross-site collaboration and leadership forums
• Work Schedule: Flexible; availability for leadership meetings and critical incidents as needed
• On-Call: Not typically in rotation; serves as executive escalation point

Physical Demands

• Physical demands with activity or condition for a considerable amount of time include sitting and typing/keyboarding using a computer (e.g. keyboard mouse and monitor) or mobile device
• Physical demands with activity or condition may occasionally include walking bending reaching standing and stooping
• May require occasional lifting/lowering pushing carrying or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazers Wine and Spirits an Affirmative Action/EEO employer prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training. SGWS complies with all federal state and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicants arrest and/or criminal conviction records. Southern Glazers Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience knowledge skills abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazers Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazers pay bands or ranges.

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