Director of DevOps/Cloudops

Company Description

insightsoftware is a global provider of comprehensive solutions for the Office of the CFO. We believe an actionable business strategy begins and ends with accessible financial data. With solutions across financial planning and analysis (FP&A), accounting, and operations, we transform how teams operate, empowering leaders to make timely and informed decisions. With data at the heart of everything we do, insightsoftware enables automated processes, delivers trusted insights, boosts predictability, and increases productivity. Learn more at insightsoftware.com

Job Description

In a time of unprecedented expansion, we are seeking a Director to oversee our DevOps team that support specific products. In this role, you will be responsible for the strategic planning and multiyear roadmaps for each team. The position requires providing leadership and coaching to the teams as they build new services and enhance legacy services. The ideal applicant has a solid technical background, ample experience working with engineering teams and large-scale practical experience with infrastructure platform container frameworks. 

A day in the office looks like this: 

• Managing the continuous improvement of monitoring/alerting capabilities and incident management 
• Embracing a DevOps mentality and ensuring the model’s success, building a culture of shared responsibility and transparency that leads to higher quality and quicker delivery of output 
• Leverage industry best practices and experience to ensure that security is baked into deliverables from the start and that the project/program fully embraces a DevOps, DevSecOps and “shift-left” mentality 
• Managing and growing an enterprise DevOps/CloudOps team
• Understanding our required frameworks and regulatory rules to consistently achieve success and meet requirements in all areas of your responsibility and influence 
• Building and evolving monitoring and analytics systems to evaluate uptime/availability, usage and performance metrics 
• Driving adoption of industry-standard methodologies and practices for infrastructure as code, deployment, observability, load and resiliency testing, and reliability 
• Advocating adoption of Agile new ways of working and a continuous improvement framework to drive efficiency and enable business agility 
• Ensuring the team workstreams and projects are well managed, and that appropriate tracking and reporting are undertaken 
• Implementing a communications strategy and keeping a business-value focus 
• Leading incident response efforts, including coordinating with other teams to investigate and resolve incidents 

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical discipline or commensurate relevant experience. 
• 8+ years of experience in a CloudOps role
• 8+ years of experience with IaaS Platforms (AWS and/or Azure preferred). 
• Proficient in automation using Batch, Powershell, Ruby, Python, or shell scripts
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, or Ansible
• Experience with Networking, Routing, DNS & Load Balancing
• Proven ability to learn new concepts and remain up to date with new technologies. 
• Deep understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle, including CI/CD pipeline architecture and processes in addition to automation tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Terraform, GitLab, etc.)
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment. 
• Experience in agile development processes. 
• Experience with creating SQL scripts and administering PostgreSQL. 
• Strong experience with modern application development workflows and version control systems like GitHub, Gitlab, or Bitbucket. 

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

** At this time insightsoftware is not able to offer sponsorship to candidates who are not eligible to work in the country where the position is located. **

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