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KPA helps organizations keep people safe, protect their business, and elevate compliance.
The Role
Founded in 1986, KPA is a leading provider of Workforce Compliance software and consulting services. We succeed if our clients can send their employees home at night, having not experienced a workplace accident or injury. The combination of software, consulting, and training helps clients identify, remedy, and prevent workplace safety and compliance problems so they can focus on what’s important – their core business.
Help us help keep people safe and businesses working efficiently. Named as one of Built In Colorado’s Best Places to Work for six years in a row, KPA is made up of talented individuals working together for the greater good. We’re here to help our clients build safe, thriving organizations, and we’re looking for people with a common goal to help us do it.
Position Description:
As a member of the Technology team, the DevOps Manager assumes a pivotal hands-on position, responsible for driving deployment automation, managing client-facing cloud infrastructure, ensuring site reliability, and upholding security standards. The ideal candidate possesses a proven track record of managing teams and projects, automating security protocols, proactively identifying vulnerabilities during development phases, and guaranteeing the security and compliance of applications, systems, and infrastructure. Leading a team of Site Reliability and DevOps Engineers, the DevOps Manager will spearhead the establishment of standard operating procedures, surpass service level agreements, and meticulously adhere to change management protocols by fostering collaboration and enhancing automation.
Responsibilities:
- Provide technical guidance and educate team members and coworkers on DevOps best practices including continuous integration, continuous delivery, and automated testing
- Develop clear and up-to-date documentation of team practices, procedures, and standards
- Lead sprint planning, implementation, standups and demos
- Design, implement, and maintain secure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices
- Monitor and optimize the performance of systems to meet or exceed defined service level agreements (SLAs)
- Design strategies to enhance development delivery
- Proactively plan and manage the capacity of systems to handle current and future workloads
- Collaborate with Development and Data teams to integrate security into the software development lifecycle (SDLC), including design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance phases
- Implement security controls within the build pipeline and tests to identify vulnerabilities, code flaws, and misconfigurations, and manage security tools such as static and dynamic application security testing (SAST/DAST), container security, and vulnerability scanners
- Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies to ensure systems are secure
Knowledge, Experience, Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
- Minimum of 3 years in a lead role with multiple direct reports
- 5+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, ideally coming from a development background, with an emphasis working with Azure and/or AWS
- 2+ years of experience working with logging, SIEM and metrics tools, vulnerability scanners (Nessus, Qualys, InsightVM, etc.), and code analysis tools (linters, Snyk or similar)
- In depth experience with containers, container orchestration and scheduling, service registration / discovery and monitoring (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Practical experience developing software or meeting operational needs with code and scripting (Powershell, Bash, Python, Perl, Ruby)
- Knowledge of CI/CD practices and supporting tools (Azure DevOps, Octopus, similar)
- Experience with infrastructure automation frameworks (Ansible, Chef, Terraform, or similar)
- Good interpersonal skills and communication with a passion for working with all types of managers, architects, developers, QA, and operations personnel
- Ability to multitask, prioritize, and track time efficiently
- Desire to learn and continually improve self and others though knowledge sharing
Compensation:
- Annual Base Salary Range of 150-170k
- Annual Bonus Opportunity of 15%
Physical Requirements:
- Physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Working at a computer typing and view a screen - Constantly
- Stationary sitting or standing - Constantly
- Visual Recognition - Constantly
- Hearing/Listening - Occasionally
- Communicating verbally and/or in writing - Occasionally
- Travel - Seldom
Don’t meet every job requirement? At KPA, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply unless they meet every requirement. If you’re excited about the role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we still encourage you to apply! You might just be the right candidate for this or other roles.
As a growing company KPA values its employees by supporting them with a full benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible Spending Accounts, PTO, Paid and Floating Holidays, 401k with Company match and immediate vesting, Company-funded Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Programs, and No-cost Mental Health Benefits.
About KPA
Founded in 1986, KPA is a leading provider of Environment, Health & Safety (EHS), and Workforce Compliance software and consulting services. KPA solutions help clients identify, remedy, and prevent workplace safety and compliance problems across their entire enterprise. The combination of KPA's software, consulting services, and award-winning training content helps organizations minimize risk so they can focus on what's important—their core business.
We are passionate about what we do, how we do and why we do it. Our culture is driven by the KPA core values – Integrity, Helpful, Excellence, Agile, Respectful, and Teamwork. Success will be determined by the capabilities, energy and character of the people we bring into our organization and the performance they achieve.
KPA, with headquarters in Colorado and teammates throughout the United Sates, is recognized as one of Colorado's Best Places to Work to Work by Built In Colorado for 2025, making the list six years running.
KPA is committed to providing equal opportunity in all of our employment practices, including selection, hiring, promotion, transfer, and compensation, to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, religion, religious dress/grooming, color, ethnicity, sex (including sex stereotyping), sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, creed, uniform service member status, military or veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, breast-feeding and/or pregnancy-related conditions, age, protected medical condition, leave status, physical or mental disability, genetic characteristics, or any other legally-protected status in accordance with the requirements of all federal, state and local laws. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.
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The Company
What We Do
KPA solutions help clients identify, remedy, and prevent workplace safety and compliance problems across their entire enterprise. The combination of KPA’s easy-to-use software platforms, consulting services, and award-winning training content helps organizations minimize risk so they can focus on what’s important—their core business. For nearly 40 years, KPA has helped 10,000+ clients achieve regulatory compliance, protect their business, and keep people safe.
Why Work With Us
Since 1986 we have been refining the core values with which we work together as a team and with our clients. Do you align with our core values of Integrity, Helpfulness, Excellence, Agility, Respectfulness, and Teamwork? It is these core values that promote our success through both organic growth and integrating acquisitions.
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KPA Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
KPA operates in a hybrid, remote-first work environment where daily office attendance is optional and teams get together in-person for collaboration.
Typical time on-site:
Flexible
Westminster, CO
Our headquarters is located in the CirclePoint Corporate Center in Westminster, right off US 36 between 104th and 112th. Minutes from the Westminster Promenade, a major entertainment and food hub.
