Manager, Development Operations - Houston, TX
About The Position
S&B is seeking a Manager of Development Operations to lead the development team. This role is responsible for overseeing and coordinating personnel, resources, and processes necessary to deliver new software solutions or upgrade existing products. The Manager is accountable for end-to-end secure delivery across a hybrid enterprise environment, spanning legacy systems and modern cloud platforms, with a strong focus on advancing cloud-native and containerized application patterns. This position plays a key role in the organization’s technology modernization efforts, helping evolve existing systems and practices toward scalable, secure, automated, and cloud-aligned architectures. The role fosters a culture of continuous improvement in all areas of technology and instills the principles of this culture in a team of developers. A minimum of 6 years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience is required.
Requirements
- 6 years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience.
- Customer-facing manager with hands-on technical expertise.
- Ability to architect and manage a DevOps Team.
- 6-8 years of experience in modern software development, architecture, and DevOps.
- Experience in agile tooling (Jira, Confluence, etc.).
- Experience with version control systems (Git, SVN, etc.).
- Experience with deployment strategies that support both iterative and continuous development.
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and operations.
- Extensive experience in developing, deploying, and integrating software solutions.
- Experience working in environments with modern application development stacks.
- Experience with Java (backend development).
- Experience with Go (backend development).
- Experience with ReactJS (frontend development).
- Experience with Azure DevOps (CI/CD pipelines, release management, and work tracking).
- Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience working within Kubernetes/AKS containerized and cloud-native environments.
- Strong ability to coach developers.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Strong leadership qualities.
- Proven ability to resolve conflict.
- Good mentor and coach.
- Solid critical-thinking and decision-making skills.
- Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, and technical systems documentation.
- Interpersonal communication and relationship development skills.
- Basic mathematical and algebraic equations required.
Nice To Haves
- Python (automation, scripting, or data-related workloads).
- Experience with Agile development and release practices.
- ITIL familiarity and experience.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development team.
- Oversee and coordinate personnel, resources, and processes for software delivery and upgrades.
- Ensure end-to-end secure delivery across hybrid enterprise environments.
- Advance cloud-native and containerized application patterns.
- Evolve existing systems and practices toward scalable, secure, automated, and cloud-aligned architectures.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement in technology.
- Instill principles of continuous improvement in the development team.
- Supervise up to 20-25 developers.
- Contribute to technology strategy and planning.
- Research emerging technologies to support systems development.
- Recommend introduction of technologies, new features, or non-functional requirements.
- Establish and maintain appropriate procedures and processes.
- Provide guidance to the team and ensure adherence to development standards.
- Monitor, evaluate, and ensure the completion of tasks and projects.
- Create strategic targets for the team.
- Provide mentoring and training.
- Identify skills needed for support and development projects and recruit team members.
- Recruit, hire and manage full-time developers, contractors, and consultants.
- Evaluate performance of staff.
- Manage resource allocation on development projects and support.
- Ensure proper quality assurance processes.
- Solve complex technical challenges.
- Enforce DevOps pipeline for projects.
- Conduct weekly 1-1s with developers to provide career guidance.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package
- Flexible and hybrid work schedules
- Comprehensive benefits program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
Associate degree
