DevOps Manager

**What**: ZPE Systems addresses the pain in infrastructure reliability, holistic security, and personnel shortage of large enterprises & digital service providers— including 6 of the top 10 global tech giants - by delivering on what Gartner calls Infrastructure Hype automation.
**How**: Enterprises trust ZPE's Intel-based serial consoles, services routers, sensors, zero-touch zero-trust provisioning, and cloud-managed out-of-band automation, to eliminate human error and operate an agile, easy-to-manage, secure, and resilient infrastructure from datacenter to distributed edge at scale.
**Summary**:ZPE Systems is looking for an experienced DevOps Manager who will tackle the organization's toughest technical problems and drive excellence at all levels, supporting a global team in the network management space
**Responsibilities**:
- Manages and appropriately escalates delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes associated with product development initiatives.
- Displays technical leadership and oversight of implementation and deployment planning, system integration, ongoing data validation processes, delivery, operations, and sustainability of technical solutions
- Exercises broadly delegated authority for planning, directing, coordinating, administering, and executing both routine and complex technical elements of Technical Operations
- Manages operational aspect of production and development servers including developing, training in, and validating compliance with procedures and checklists related to disk space usage, monitoring solutions, deployment, conventions, access to the production and development sources, source control access, and usage, performance monitoring, code modifications validation, and more
- Maintains issue tracking and documentation systems and provides reporting that ensures proper tracking and visibility of issues and projects
- Identifies technical and process improvement opportunities and socializes/advocates to get them implemented
- Works closely with engineering in release planning, preparation, validation, post-release monitoring, and ongoing monitoring
- Maintains accurate project plans and status reports
- Possesses an expert technical understanding of the intersection of development and operations (DevOps), monitoring and management tools, and deployment processes and tools
- Provides process improvement recommendations based on best practices and industry standards
- Resolves conflicts by demonstrating leadership and appropriate decision-making competencies
- Is responsible for the development of standards and processes for operations that proactively prevent problems from occurring
- Builds automation around systems and infrastructure for improved operational efficiency.
**Qualifications**:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Management Information Systems, or equivalent work experience
- 1+ years of DevOps Manager or related experience with gradually increasing responsibilities and a demonstrated understanding of DevOps and technical quality control processes, artifacts, and tools
- Strong software development background. 2+ years as an individual contributor
- Strong working knowledge of Python, GO, and SQL
- Strong working knowledge of cloud vendors (_e.g._ GCP, AWS)
- A track record as a coach, mentor, and developer of talent
- An ability to drive to big-picture goals and milestones while valuing and maintaining strong attention to detail
- An ability to quickly identify and drive to the optimal solution when presented with a series of constraints
- Demonstrated ability in people management, strategic planning, risk management, change management, and project management
- Excellent judgment, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills
- Experience working with quality management approaches, techniques, and principles
- Full understanding of software development lifecycle best practices
- Self-motivated individual that possesses excellent time management and organizational skills
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, relationship-building skills, and ability to achieve results without direct reporting relationships
- Strong sense of personal responsibility and accountability for delivering high-quality work, both personally and at a team level.
- ZPE Systems, Inc. will make accommodations for disabilities, caregiver responsibilities (such as parenting or caring for other relatives), or similar situations if at all possible._
- ZPE Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer and embraces diversity in our employee population. It is the policy of ZPE Systems to provide equal opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or special disabled veteran, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other legally protected status._

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