DevOps Manager

DHRM•Richmond, VA

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) is recruiting for a DevOps Manager to support technology and technology systems for the VDOE through coordinating between the operational and development teams. The mission of the DevOps team is to effectively support, maintain, and advance technology and technology solutions that further the mission and priority goals of the DOE Department of Data, Research and Technology and overall Virginia Department of Education.

Requirements

Demonstrated experience working in product or project building teams.
Demonstrated experience serving as a Database Administrator and Systems Administrator for a cloud environment including both structured databases as well as compute instances
Demonstrated experience working with the configuration and maintenance of Deployment Pipelines and establishing Release Management best practices
Demonstrated experience integrating CI/CD tools, Configuration Management, Infrastructure as Code, code scanning and automated testing tools into Release Management processes.
Ability to creatively solve customer issues while operating in a potentially restricted environment
Ability to maintain organization of work, manages deadlines, and clearly communicates progress or indicates the need for assistance as workload demands.
Ability to work in a highly collaborative team to identify opportunities for product improvements and recommend modifications.
Ability to collaborate with analysts and stakeholders to gather business requirements, define metrics, and develop solutions to address data needs.
Demonstrated knowledge of Version Control Systems, CI/CD Pipeline tools, Configuration management tools

Nice To Haves

College degree in information systems, computer science, or related field or demonstrated progressively responsible experience in developing and maintaining information systems.
Extensive experience in Oracle database administration, with Oracle certification preferred.
Demonstrated experience working with CI/CD Pipelines and Configuration Management Tools

Responsibilities

Troubleshoots and fixes issues or provides for escalation to appropriate parties and helps with troubleshooting in one-on-one sessions.
Provides assistance to systems and database administrators around patching, auditing, installations, and security concerns.
Develops and documents processes for release management and code promotion between environments.
Provides coordination between the operational and development teams for successful implementation and deployment of software solutions.
Provides support and guidance to projects around implementations and upgrades.
Installs and configures software tools to automate and support the SDLC process, including creating effective source code management procedures.
Participate in the planning, scheduling, and scoping of Sprints on AGILE projects.
Help the team to identify and prioritize work across projects internal and external, maintenance, and support needs to ensure on-time delivery of stable systems that meet requirements.
Suggest and implement enhancements to system to improve performance, security, and reliability.