DevOps Manager

Company Overview:

At Yurts, we are committed to pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence and driving innovation in enterprise solutions. Our goal is to create cutting-edge applications that leverage the power of LLMs and Generative AI to deliver mission impact and transform businesses. We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated DevOps Manager who is passionate about deploying exceptional software products for both US government and commercial customers. If you have experience in deploying and maintaining enterprise products, thrive in a fast-paced iterative development process, and enjoy delivering value in support of US government missions, we would love to hear from you!

Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Manager to lead our DevOps team. You will play a pivotal role in shaping our deployment strategies, ensuring high availability, and driving automation across our cutting-edge AI products tailored for commercial and US government clients. Your leadership will be crucial in enhancing our deployment efficiency and maintaining our security posture.This role requires a strong technical background combined with exceptional leadership skills to help build and lead a high-performing DevOps team.

Responsibilities:

• Build, mentor, and lead a team of DevOps engineers. Foster a collaborative and innovative culture within the team. 
• Develop and implement a comprehensive DevOps strategy aligned with business objectives. Stay current with new technologies and recommend innovative solutions that increase value and improve efficiency.
• Security and Privacy are of the utmost importance to us and our customers, you will have a critical role supporting this.
• Collaborate and help DevOps Engineers to establish best practices and company-wide guidelines. Participate in the creation of the company's strategic IT roadmap.
• We are multi-cloud and on-prem. You will be overseeing the design, implementation, and maintenance of this flexable cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) and software deployments across diverse customer environments.
• Manage monitoring tools and metrics to measure system performance and identify areas for improvement.
• Troubleshoot complex system issues and work with customer, partner, and internal development teams to identify root causes and resolve them.
• Ensure adherence to security best practices and compliance standards.
• Willingness to travel up to 25% to customer locations, company events, and conferences.

Qualifications:

• A BS degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields.
• 3+ years of successfully managing direct reports
• 7+ years of experience as a DevOps or DevSecOps Engineer, or equivalent software-engineering role.
• Speak to supporting security/privacy practices within your organization
• Extensive experience leading application deployments to AWS, Azure, and/or Oracle Cloud environments, as well as on-premises data centers.
• Experience delivering software to multiple environments using Terraform or similar automation and configuration management technologies.
• Strong experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, especially Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins.. etc, and a willingness to learn and adopt new ones.
• Experience deploying rapidly evolving software and maintaining a flexible deployment paradigm to enable rapid iteration.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with clients, partner vendors, end users, and cross-functional teams.
• Experience writing and leveraging infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar).
• Working knowledge of databases, both SQL and NoSQL, and related data structures. 
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language (i.e Bash, Python).
• Experience building deployment systems for rapidly developing and changing applications.

Preferred Qualifications:

• A BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields or equivalent experience
• Experience with containerization and deployment of Machine Learning models.
• Experience deploying commercial software products into government customer environments.
• Experience speaking with customers about security and DevOps practices
• Experience in startup environments.

Why Join Us:

As a DevOps Manager, you will play a crucial role in our team, and your expertise will be pivotal in reaching our company goals. You will be given the opportunity to make a significant impact on our systems while working in an innovative and fast-paced environment. We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages and encourage professional growth and development. Join us on our exciting journey to push the boundaries of technology and drive transformative change in the AI and ML industry.

Note:

At Yurts, we are dedicated to harnessing the power of AI and ML. If you're interested in learning more about our innovative projects and the impact of AI in transforming industries, check out our blog here:: The bridge to enterprise AI | Yurts Enterprise AI | Blog. This will give you an insight into the fascinating world of AI and the possibilities it holds for the future.