Manager, DevOps Engineering

Blackbaud • Full-time • Remote (Remote from United States of America) • $133,700 - $173,800 / year • 1m ago

Fast Facts

The role of DevOps Manager at Blackbaud involves leading a team of engineers to optimize cloud infrastructure and enhance automation processes, ensuring reliable and secure operations for cloud-based applications.

Responsibilities: You will oversee automation projects, manage incident responses, and prepare operational reports while mentoring your team on emerging technologies and best practices.

Skills: Strong background in cloud platforms (Azure & AWS), DevOps experience, infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation), and excellent leadership abilities.

Qualifications: 10+ years in engineering with 5+ years in a managerial role, extensive knowledge of cloud services, and experience in mentoring teams preferred.

Location: United States of America

Compensation: $133700 - $173800 / Annually

About the role:

Cloud Delivery Engineering (CDE) is transforming into a best-in-class cloud-ready organization optimized for our modern cloud solutions. We’re doubling down on quality and process, and ramping up our automation capabilities, to deliver the highly scalable, reliable, secure and performant platform that will delight our customers.

As a DevOps Manager, you will lead a team of system engineers responsible for public cloud environments as well as co-located datacenters as we finish our migration efforts to the public cloud.You’ll focus on quality and process, and advance our automation and engineering capabilities, to deliver the highly scalable, reliable, secure and performant applications that will delight our customers. You’ll relentlessly pursue opportunities to advance our operational

effectiveness and increase customer satisfaction.

What you’ll be doing:

Cultivate a diverse, high-performing team that develops, recognizes and retains the best people and challenges them to advance their technical and engineering skills to meet the demands of rapidly evolving technologies and to transition from co-location to cloud-based applications
Oversee the implementation of automation projects to ensure consistency with design decisions, standards, and best practices, utilizing experience building a cloud operating model and container strategy with cloud services including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Docker & Kubernetes, etc.
Manage Incident response and resolution processes to minimize downtime and ensure service reliability
Prepare and present reports on team performance, project status and operational metrics to leadership
Establish and maintainbest practices for security, performance and scaling infrastructure in production environments
Provide technical guidance and leadership to team developing and maintainingautomationusing languages like powershell, python and ansible to streamline system administration
Collaborate with CyberSecurity to implement necessary safeguards to protect the infrastructure from unauthorized access, threats and vulnerabilities
Facilitate effective communication within and outside of the team
Participate in budget planning and management for resources, evaluating new technologies and solutions to improve efficiency
Keep abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends, applying this knowledge to enhance organizational practices
Monitor infrastructure and analyze performance metrics to identify areas for improvement
Continuous and effective performance management of the team

What we'll want you to have:

10+ years of experience as anengineer with a strong technical background managing systems and infrastructure
5+ years of experience in a managerial or leadership role managing cloud infrastructure.
In-depth knowledge of cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure and AWS
Hands-on DevOps experience building out the infrastructure for and installing the tooling for an enterprise software development lifecycle as well as writing/constructing all necessary scripts, build/deploy jobs & workflows
Experience with infrastructure as code(IaC) tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation
Experience working with large and geographically distributed teams preferred
Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills to work effectively within team members and key stakeholders
Strong ability to mentor, coach and drive professional development within the team.
Able to work flexible hours as required by business priorities; Available on a 24x7x365 basis when needed for production impacting incidents or key customer events
Exposure to and experience in using AI to automate and maintain production environments strongly preferred

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The starting base pay is $133,700.00 to $173,800.00. Blackbaud may pay more or less based on employee qualifications, market value, Company finances, and other operational considerations.

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