Director of DevOps

About the Opportunity
Were looking for a Director of DevOps with a passion for learning a kind heart a positive attitude and a great sense of humor to join our growing this role you will lead DevOps strategy cloud infrastructure reliability automation and platform operations for a SaaS engineering organization. You will mentor the DevOps team drive best practices across AWS-first infrastructure CI/CD observability incident response security and cost optimization and partner closely with Engineering Product Security Data QA executive leadership and key vendors to improve system resilience developer productivity and delivery efficiency.

The Director of DevOps will be a key player on an incredible team as we execute our mission to help local governments and school districts take the next step from good to great.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead DevOps Strategy and Team Execution: Define and champion the DevOps vision operating model roadmap and priorities for a SaaS engineering organization of approximately 80 engineers.
• Own Cloud Infrastructure Strategy and Cost Optimization: Lead AWS-first cloud strategy while managing Azure and Google Cloud usage driving consolidation governance cost visibility and FinOps accountability.
• Drive Reliability Observability and Production Operations: Strengthen SRE practices incident response on-call operations observability alerting postmortems and reliability metrics across production systems.
• Advance Infrastructure Automation and Developer Enablement: Improve infrastructure-as-code CI/CD deployment automation environment management self-service tooling and developer productivity.
• Champion Secure AI-Enabled DevOps Practices: Evaluate and adopt AI-enabled tools and modern automation practices to improve infrastructure reviews incident triage documentation CI/CD and operational workflows with appropriate guardrails
• Manage Strategic Platforms Vendors and Partnerships: Own key vendor relationships and platform decisions across AWS Datadog Databricks and other cloud observability security and developer tooling providers.
• Build and Develop a High-Leverage DevOps Team: Lead hiring mentoring performance management budgeting and organizational planning for a team responsible for cloud infrastructure reliability automation and platform operations.

Critical Skills/Experience:

• Proven experience leading and scaling DevOps platform infrastructure or SRE teams in a SaaS environment
• Deep AWS infrastructure expertise including architecture governance security networking compute storage and cost management.
• Strong FinOps experience including cloud cost visibility forecasting optimization and engineering cost accountability
• Strong observability and production operations experience including Datadog or similar platforms logging metrics tracing alerting incident response and MTTR reduction
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code CI/CD deployment automation environment management secret management and cloud policy controls.
• Strong SRE and operational excellence track record owning KPIs for reliability uptime and security remediation with expertise in incident response.
• Experience evaluating implementing and governing strategic third-party platforms across cloud observability data security and developer tooling
• Working knowledge of AI-enabled engineering or DevOps workflows including automation infrastructure review incident triage documentation or CI/CD improvement
• Excellent communication skills proven ability to collaborate with executives manage critical vendor relationships and mentor engineers across career paths.
• Strong people leadership skills including hiring mentoring senior ICs developing technical leaders managing performance and leading teams through growth and change

Technical Depth Across Core Platforms:

• Deep cloud infrastructure leadership across AWS with working familiarity across Azure and Google Cloud environments
• Strong FinOps mindset with experience consolidating cloud usage improving cost visibility and driving accountability for cloud spend
• Proven ability to lead DevOps strategy for a SaaS organization with multiple engineering teams and production systems
• Strong command of observability practices including logging metrics tracing alerting and operational insights using platforms such as Datadog
• Experience building reliable scalable and secure cloud platforms that support engineering velocity and customer-facing uptime
• Strong understanding of infrastructure-as-code deployment automation CI/CD secret management and policy-as-code standards
• Data-driven approach to DevOps effectiveness including deployment frequency lead time change failure rate MTTR developer satisfaction cloud spend and platform adoption
• Practical understanding of AI-enabled DevOps opportunities including anomaly detection incident triage cost optimization infrastructure review documentation and developer self-service

The Ideal ClearGov Candidate:

• Self-motivated self-starter with a zeal to win
• Great communicator; strong oral and written skills
• Ability to think creatively and innovatively
• Hands-on problem solver who enjoys cracking difficult nuts
• Quick study able to pick up and apply new concepts in a hurry
• Track record of achievement
• Enjoys working on and helping to build outstanding teams
• Demonstrates an entrepreneurial spirit and gets stuff done
• A sense of humor and dont take themselves too seriously

Why Join Us:

• Flexible hybrid work
• Chance to make a meaningful impact on government and school district transparency and accountability
• Opportunity to work in a fast-paced fun and collaborative environment
• Competitive salary and benefits package (see below)
• Professional growth opportunities

Compensation:

• In the spirit of transparency we are excited to share the base salary for this position is $150000 - $190000 CAD and exclusive of fringe benefits or potential bonuses. If you are hired at ClearGov your final base salary compensation will be determined by factors such as skills interview performance education and/or addition to those factors we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as a part of any final offer. Please keep in mind that the range mentioned above is the full base salary for the role. Hiring beyond the base range would not be typical in order to allow for future & continued salary growth. We also offer a generous compensation and benefits package (more information on benefits listed below).

Benefits:

• Competitive Salary
• Quality Medical Dental and Vision Insurance Plans
• Life Insurance
• RRSP Matching
• Personal Time Off Policy
• Company-Paid Holidays Observed
• Annual Holiday Dimming of the Lights (aka: reduced work hours)
• Parental Leave
• Employee Referral Bonus

ClearGov is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse inclusive and respectful workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind and make employment decisions without regard to race color ancestry ethnicity nationality or national origin citizenship sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression religion or creed age disability genetic information pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions marital or family status veteran or military status Indigenous status record of offenses (where legally protected) or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal state provincial or local laws in the United States and Canada.

ClearGov is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities in accordance with applicable U.S. and Canadian laws. If you require an accommodation during any part of the hiring process please let us know.

At ClearGov we value diverse perspectives and believe they strengthen our ability to achieve our mission of helping local governments work better.