Technical Staff- ALM & DevOps Platforms

Dell Technologies•Hopkinton, MA

About The Position

Technical Staff– ALM & DevOps Platforms Taking the development of new products, materials and processes to a higher level than ever before, our Technical Leadership team is the pinnacle of applied research and advanced engineering. Exploring the industry and competitive environment for a given technology or product line, they drive strategy and architecture in response. Working closely with design, systems engineering and marketing teams, and with business leaders and suppliers, their technology investigations and strategic analysis influence the development of unique products and partnerships. Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Technical Staff on our Technical Leadership Team in Hopkinton/Austin. What you’ll achieve We are seeking a Technical Staff- (I10) to lead the architecture, reliability, and modernization of our enterprise ALM and DevOps tool ecosystem, including Jira/Confluence, qTest, GitHub Enterprise & GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Artifactory, Kafka, SonarQube, and Coverity. This role defines the technical direction, reliability posture, HA strategy, and operational excellence standards for tools supporting thousands of engineers globally. You will:

Requirements

15+ years with enterprise-scale DevOps/ALM platforms; deep expertise in several core tools (Jira, GHES, Jenkins, Artifactory, Kafka, SonarQube, Coverity, qTest)
Demonstrated ability to design and operate HA/DR architectures and deliver 99.95%+ uptime systems
Strong background in SRE/SRO, applied observability, performance engineering, capacity planning, and scaling large tool deployments
Hands-on experience with Okta, identity federation, SCIM, authorization models, and enterprise entitlement design
Solid foundation in Linux, networking, containers, Kubernetes, databases, and distributed systems

Responsibilities

Architecture & Resilience Define and evolve HA, DR, and scaling architectures across all ALM tools
Build topology-aware designs and continuously measure and improve platform scalability, performance, and resilience
Establish cross-tool patterns for identity, observability, RBAC/entitlements, and secure-by-default deployments
Ensure all tool services meet strict requirements for availability, reliability, and stability
Uptime, SLOs & Applied Observability Define and drive SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and operational KPIs for every tool
Implement applied observability: actionable metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and dashboards tailored to each platform
Lead root-cause analysis, incident management, and continuous reduction in MTTD/MTTR
Identity, Security & SRO Architect Okta integrations across tools: SAML/OIDC/SCIM, entitlement frameworks, group/role mapping, and auditability
Ensure compliance with SRO/Security controls: hardening, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and audit readiness
Drive the HVA program uplift for tools: threat modeling, compensating controls, and DR testing
Participate in PQC-readiness assessments and roadmap planning
Platform Engineering & Automation Lead automation of infrastructure, upgrades, backup/restore, and operational workflows using Terraform, Ansible, GitOps and tooling APIs
Create repeatable, consistent patterns for build pipelines (Jenkins/GitHub Actions) and artifact governance (Artifactory)
Work directly with SMEs and Engineering teams to standardize CI/CD, improve reliability, and reduce operational toil
Cross-Org Technical Leadership Influence architecture and platform decisions across Engineering, Infrastructure, and Security teams
Mentor Architects, Principals, and Staff Engineers; create reference architectures and operational best practices
Partner with vendors and internal teams to evolve capabilities and ensure long-term platform health

Benefits

Dell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
The salary range for this position is $204,000 - $264,000.
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