Manager, DevOps

The DevOps Manager proactively and holistically leads and supports architecture/engineering activities that guide the development and management of technical Engineering and Simulation infrastructure solutions. These solutions enable the organizations future-state business capabilities and drive the organizations targeted business outcomes. Technologies include Simulation stack technology matching IT data center infrastructure cloud mobile AI Internet of Things (IoT) blockchain edge computing and immersive experiences addition the DevOps Manager ensures deliverables that help develop target-state guidance (reusable standards guidelines individual parts platforms and configurations) for evolving the technical infrastructure across the enterprise to enable business strategy and deliver targeted business outcomes related to modern full flight simulation development security and operations.

• Team Management: Lead mentor and coach a high-performing team of engineers directly managing performance career growth and daily technical execution (5 years required experience).
• DevOps & SRE Advocacy: Promote DevOps principles automated workflows and a Site Reliability Engineering culture across the engineering organization.
• On-Call & Support Leadership: Oversee Level 1 support manage the monitoring of customer-facing systems and coordinate 24/7 on-call rotation activities.
• Enterprise Operations: Architect operate and maintain on prem and cloud infrastructure supporting high-volume business-critical enterprise applications (5 years experience required).
• Database Systems: 3 years of experience working with database architectures including SQL AWS RDS Oracle SQL MongoDB and Elasticsearch.
• CI/CD Pipelines: Proven experience designing and building continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines preferably using Azure DevOps or GitLab.
• Fundamentals: Hands-on proficiency with Git fundamentals and scripting languages (Bash Python or equivalent).

• Education: Bachelors degree from an accredited institution or equivalent industry experience.
• Compliance: Direct experience implementing and maintaining systems within highly regulated frameworks specifically SOX PCI-DSS or NIST Compliance.

• Management: 5 years managing direct reports within an engineering or operations environment.
• Systems & Software: 5 years of experience managing core operating systems (Windows RedHat CentOS Amazon Linux) web servers (Nginx Apache) and modern software packages (Terraform Bash Sh).
• Observability & Analytics: 5 years of experience integrating monitoring alerting and reporting tools (NewRelic Akamai Grafana Elasticsearch Prometheus) into new and existing systems.
• Microservices & Containers: 3 years of experience implementing and supporting microservices using containers and orchestrators (Docker Kubernetes DockerSwarm Rancher or Terraform).

• SDLC & DevOps: Deep understanding of software development life cycle methodologies (Agile DevOps) and IT compliance standards.
• Networking Protocols: Solid understanding of the OSI/TCP-IP models and networking protocols (IPSEC BGP OSPF HSRP QoS).
• Security & Architecture: Developed understanding of secure network architecture information principles and infrastructure design.
• CI/CD & Automation: Proven experience building automated CI/CD workflows configuration management and release processes.
• Coding & Scripting: Proficiency in one or more programming languages alongside strong automation scripting skills.
• Testing & Deployment: Practical experience with development platforms and Test-Driven Development (TDD) practices.
• Communication & Collaboration: Excellent verbal/written communication and interpersonal skills for teamwork facilitation and negotiation.
• Analysis & Troubleshooting: Strong analytical skills to investigate technical data draw conclusions and resolve complex issues.
• Organization & Logistics: Excellent planning and organizational capabilities with the flexibility to travel when required.

The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met and/or encountered by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; and communicate. The employee may be required to stand walk and sit. Specific vision abilities required by this job include the ability to view monitors technical documents and reference material. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.

FlightSafety is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Vet/Disabled. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin or disability.