Manager of DevOps

CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen)•Nashville, TN

4d•$116,200 - $199,000•Hybrid

About The Position

CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm dedicated to creating opportunities for clients, people, and communities through various services including wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing. With a large national and global presence, CLA emphasizes knowing and helping its clients and employees. The firm is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture. CLA is seeking an experienced Manager of DevOps to join its Information Technology team. This role offers growth, flexibility, and a collaborative environment. The position is responsible for overseeing the development, implementation, and maintenance of DevOps and platform engineering initiatives for application development. Key responsibilities include ensuring the stability, scalability, and efficiency of pre-production environments, managing production deployments, and promoting collaboration among development, QA, and IT operations teams. This role combines DevOps management with platform engineering for pre-production environments and will lead the strategy and vision for the DevOps/Platform Engineering Team. The role focuses on efficient migrations, robust metrics, comprehensive monitoring, and tooling.

Requirements

6 years of relevant experience required
Bachelor's degree or a combination of relevant experience and training may be considered in lieu of a degree.
Proficiency with version control systems such as Git and command line interface
Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Bash, PowerShell) and YAML markup
Proficiency in programming languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#
Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GC
Proficiency in CI/CD tools such as Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions, or Jenkin
Hands-on experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes
Familiarity with configuration management tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
Familiarity with Azure Boards or similar work management systems such as Jira or GitLab Issues
Strong understanding of cloud computing and containerization technologies
Solid grasp of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools

Responsibilities

Manage the review of application build and deployment requirements and review pre-production environment system requirements to ensure availability and scalability.
Lead the implementation of build and deployment processes, tools, and methodologies to balance needs throughout the software development lifecycle.
Oversee the creation of stable pre-production operating environments by continuously improving deployable, scalable, and monitored infrastructure.
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for software solutions that orchestrate all aspects of deploying new code commits to production.
Support application architects and development teams to ensure software solution designs are compatible with the CI/CD platform.
Collaborate with infrastructure teams to configure deployment environments to be compatible with the CI/CD platform.
Ensure code assessment and quality gate tools are compatible with the CI/CD platform in collaboration with security teams.
Drive CI/CD paradigms into SDLC process improvement discussions and standards documentation.
Monitor, troubleshoot, maintain, and continuously improve building, packaging, and deployment processes.
Implement automated infrastructure capabilities like backups, security tools, and monitoring.
Utilize a consistent DevOps approach across products/projects to improve all phases of the process and ensure end-to-end quality, reporting and dashboards across functions.
Manage and oversee the DevOps/Platform Engineering team velocity, issues, risks and bottlenecks and related projects.
Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using Terraform templates specifically for application development.
Oversee tasks related to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), including cluster management, scaling, and monitoring.
Ensure efficient migrations with robust metrics and analytics that illustrate effectiveness, along with comprehensive monitoring and tooling.