ID
#41250657
Job type
Permanent
Salary
Depends on Experience
Source
Integrated Practice Solutions
Date
2022-05-02
Deadline
2022-07-01

Director of DevOps

Nevada, Las vegas, 89101

Permanent

Vacancy expired!

Position: Director of DevOps Integrated Practice Solutions, Inc. (dba ChiroTouch), a fast-growing and leading healthcare software company, is looking for a Director of DevOps to join our growing team. In this role, you will build and mentor a diverse team of engineers, manage production application environments in AWS, Azure, and other hosting providers, and drive DevOps projects including the implementation of new tools and technology. You will be a guardian of uptime and performance for production solutions. You will work directly with company executives and participate in big-picture thought leadership. Strong sensibilities for automation, disaster recovery, security and DevOps best practices will make you a perfect fit for this role.

Responsibilities:

Lead a team of DevOps Engineers as they build, deploy, maintain and manage production application environments according to DevOps best practices
Partner with Engineering and business leaders to continuously deliver value to customers, bringing a maniacal focus on service levels and effective incident response to this effort
Oversee the maintenance, monitoring and security of production infrastructure and networks across a portfolio of SaaS products across AWS, Azure and other hosting platforms
Working closely with other Engineering leaders, research and recommend enhancements and modifications to improve system performance, efficiency, and reliability, delivering project proposals for new tools or solutions where appropriate
Promote a culture of efficiency, predictability, and scalability through automation of manual tasks and codification of infrastructure
Promote resource pairing, knowledge sharing, and operational alignment across all product teams
Continually assess, manage and remediate risk in application environments, data management and engineering practices
Keep systems, customer data and intellectual property secure at all times, complying with the latest security standards as well as federal and state regulatory requirements
Tackle complex challenges, unexpected shifts in priority, service impacts, security incidents and legal requests in a timely manner with poise, positivity and persistence
Organize and facilitate DevOps scrum and continually seek out process enhancements to drive team clarity, efficiency, productivity and satisfaction, delivering value to stakeholders
Recruit, train, mentor and retain a high-performing team
Liaise with senior leaders and company executives, providing regular updates including cost management (run rates and cost-per-customer metrics), service level KPIs (e.g. uptime) and incident summaries, and DevOps achievements and priorities

Qualifications:

BS or MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or related area, or equivalent work experience in the field
5+ years of DevOps experience, including demonstrated aptitude with public cloud services, CI/CD in a production environment, and common DevOps tools
3+ years of experience managing Engineering or DevOps teams with a strong background in cloud engineering
Excellent leadership skills with the ability to build, coach, mentor and manage a diverse engineering team, maintaining a high standard of excellence and providing effective thought leadership
Demonstrated abilities in people management, strategic planning, risk management, change management, and agile or hybrid project management
Strong background in agile methodologies, including experience leading Agile teams and managing a backlog
Significant experience in public cloud and virtualization technologies (IaaS and PaaS), specifically AWS and/or Azure, including fluency in cloud terminology and services
Experience building/enhancing/managing continuous integration and continuous delivery services (CI/CD)
Hands-on experience with scripting and automation (e.g. Pash, Python, PowerShell) as well as automation tooling (e.g. Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, GitLab, Azure DevOps Pipelines)
Hands on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes at a minimum
Strong sensibilities for availability and disaster recovery, along with an understanding of infrastructure as code (IaC) and incident response in a SaaS environment
Experience implementing, tuning, responding to and reporting on system monitoring and performance metrics
Experience with database management, queueing and data warehousing (including Microsoft SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
A passion for technology & a thirst for knowledge, with an openness to learning new and emerging DevOps and cloud technologies
Excellent judgment, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills
Excellent time management and organizational skills along with an ability to drive to big picture goals and milestones while valuing and maintaining a strong attention to detail
Comfort working in a highly collaborative environment, with receptiveness to feedback and the applied experience of others
Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, relationship building skills, and ability to achieve results without direct reporting relationships
Experience establishing & maintaining effective relationships with individuals at all levels of the organization
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including experience interacting at the executive level and creating/presenting proposals, project reviews and diagrams
Experience managing healthcare data and strong knowledge of HIPAA Privacy and HIPAA Security rules a plus