SMS DevOps Manager
About The Position
We are seeking an experienced DevOps Manager to lead the design, delivery, and operation of a secure, sovereign cloud environment. This role is responsible for building and governing Terraform-driven Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using cloud-native services and open-source technologies, ensuring strong isolation, compliance, and security boundaries suitable for use by sovereign entities and regulated customers. The ideal candidate blends hands-on technical depth with people leadership, understands secure-by-design cloud architectures, and can translate sovereignty, compliance, and risk requirements into scalable, automated platforms.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Platform Engineering
- 4+ years of experience leading or managing technical teams
- Deep hands-on experience with Terraform in production environments
- Strong experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Proven experience designing secure, isolated, multi-tenant cloud environments
- Strong understanding of cloud security fundamentals: IAM, encryption, network security, secrets management
- Experience with CI/CD systems and automation tooling
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting sovereign, government, or highly regulated environments
- Kubernetes platform experience in security-sensitive contexts
- Familiarity with policy-as-code and compliance-as-code approaches
- Cloud security or DevOps certifications (e.g., AWS, Azure, CKA, Terraform Associate)
- Experience collaborating with GRC, legal, and compliance stakeholders
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end cloud platform supporting sovereign and regulated workloads across multiple hyperscaler (AWS, Azure, GCP, or sovereign variants) focused centers of excellence.
- Design and enforce secure information boundaries, including: Network segmentation and isolation, Identity, access, and privilege separation, Data residency and encryption controls.
- Partner with Security, Architecture, and Compliance teams to ensure platforms meet sovereignty, regulatory, and contractual requirements.
- Lead development and governance of Terraform-based IaC frameworks.
- Establish reusable modules, standards, and pipelines for: Cloud-native services (compute, storage, networking, identity), Security controls embedded into infrastructure.
- Drive automation for provisioning, configuration, drift detection, and lifecycle management.
- Build and manage CI/CD pipelines supporting infrastructure and application delivery.
- Ensure high availability, resilience, and performance of the cloud platform.
- Implement security-by-default practices across all environments.
- Ensure alignment with frameworks such as: Zero Trust principles, NIST, ISO, SOC, or equivalent regulatory standards.
- Support audits and assessments by providing traceable, code-based controls and evidence.
- Leverage and govern open-source tools (e.g., Kubernetes, Helm, Argo, Vault, Open Policy Agent).
- Balance innovation with stability, ensuring secure and supported implementations.
- Evaluate emerging technologies to improve security, efficiency, and automation.
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of DevOps and Platform Engineers.
- Foster a culture of automation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Set clear priorities, roadmaps, and success metrics for the team.
Benefits
- Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.
- SAP North America Benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
