{"id":1291916,"url":"https://alion.io/job/netapp-senior-manager-release-engineering-site-reliability-devops-cicd","title":"Senior Manager, Release Engineering & Site Reliability (DevOps , CI/CD)","company":{"id":58700,"name":"NetApp","domain":"netapp.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/netapp","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Eightfold","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":91,"open_postings":26,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.154,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":61,"computed_at":"2026-10-02T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Usa, Japan"],"countries":["JP"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":196350,"max":292600,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":292600},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":12,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"Ansible","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"DHCP","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"Perl","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Rest API","optional":false},{"name":"Ruby","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"Unix","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-14T19:11:13Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-18","last_verified_at":"2026-10-02T16:52:06Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":18,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":18},"description":"Job Summary\nNetApp is building a dedicated CI/CD organization to qualify and sustain the NetApp stack for a key growing NetApp business partnership in air-gapped, high-assurance environments: ONTAP AFF, ONTAP Select, StorageGRID, and Trident. This Senior Manager will stand up and lead that team, owning the full software qualification and sustaining lifecycle from automation strategy, test design, and verification through troubleshooting, release readiness, patch qualification, operational follow-through, and continuous improvement of managed-service reliability.\nThis is not a product-feature team and not a lab-operations team. Product engineering owns features. Central Test Lab (CTL) owns physical lab infrastructure, hardware pods, and testbed provisioning. This manager owns how software is qualified, automated, released, patched, and kept current for the partner environment.\nThe role is M4 in scope: strategy and operating model for a new multi-product qualification function, hiring and developing the team, and delivery against enterprise-agreement release and operational commitments.\nJob Requirements\nWhat You Will Do\nTeam Leadership & Operations\nBuild, lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing CI/CD engineering team, establishing priorities, staffing plans, execution cadence, and performance expectations.\nDefine operational responsibilities across Central Test Lab (CTL), Product Engineering, Quality Engineering, and Production Support teams.\nOwn day-to-day software operations for partner environments, including release qualification, patch validation, software maintenance, and deployment readiness.\nPartner with stakeholders to define acceptance testing strategies, release readiness criteria, and engagement models.\nLead the end-to-end software qualification lifecycle, including planning, test development, validation, defect management, release evidence, and process improvements.\nCI/CD Infrastructure & Automation\nBuild and operate pre-production CI/CD environments supporting both simulator-based continuous integration and hardware qualification testing.\nIntegrate air-gapped and partner-representative environments into automated qualification workflows.\nDrive release quality through automated regression testing, release gates, reproducible test results, and audit-ready evidence.\nDevelop scalable infrastructure automation and scripting practices that enable consistent, repeatable qualification across diverse test environments.\nSolution Acceptance Testing (SAT)\nExecute partner-defined acceptance testing across file, block, object, and container storage workloads before software delivery.\nMaintain interoperability and regression coverage across ONTAP, ONTAP Select, Trident, StorageGRID, firmware, and API updates.\nLead disruptive testing, network validation, and bring-your-own-network qualification, including cluster rebuilds, re-imaging, and hardware-dependent test scenarios.\nValidate automated zero-day deployment and controller bring-up workflows, including REST and DHCP-based provisioning.\nReliability & Release Excellence\nEstablish qualification SLAs, release tracking processes, and readiness reporting for software deliveries.\nDrive effective defect triage, ownership, prioritization, and closure across testing and partner environments.\nSupport enterprise operational requirements through patch qualification, incident collaboration, root-cause analysis, escalation support, and on-call participation where required.\nMonitor release health, qualification pipeline reliability, system availability, performance, defect trends, and test infrastructure health using observability tools and dashboards to improve predictability and release confidence.\nScope Boundaries\nCTL retains ownership of physical lab infrastructure, site readiness, power, cooling, and hardware pods.\nProduct Engineering remains responsible for feature development across ONTAP, ONTAP Select, Trident, and StorageGRID.\nCustomer Product Engineering and SupportEdge retain ownership of production incident command and customer-facing operations.\nEducation\nRequired qualifications\nBachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. \n12 or more years of experience in software, systems, or infrastructure engineering, including 5 or more years leading engineers. \nProven experience standing up or scaling a CI/CD, release-qualification, site-reliability, or test-automation organization for a complex product. \nHands-on fluency with Linux or other Unix-like operating systems, distributed systems, automated test frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and release automation. \nStrong problem-solving capability across complex software, infrastructure, and storage-system failure modes, with the ability to drive issues from reproduction through root-cause inputs and closure criteria. \nExperience with scripting and infrastructure automation using tools or languages such as Python, Go, Ansible, Terraform, Perl, Ruby, or comparable technologies. \nExperience qualifying storage, Kubernetes/CSI, or large-scale infrastructure software across block, file, or object. \nDemonstrated ability to partner across product, lab and test, and customer or hyperscaler engineering organizations. \nStrong understanding of SDLC, DevOps, release-management, and production-quality engineering practices in complex enterprise software environments. \nTrack record of hiring, coaching, mentoring, and holding a team to operational commitments, with strong written and verbal communication skills for executive, engineering, and customer-facing audiences. \nPreferred qualifications\nExperience with ONTAP, Trident, StorageGRID, ONTAP Select, or comparable enterprise storage and CSI stacks. \nAir-gapped, sovereign, or high-assurance environment qualification. \nNetwork overlay experience such as VXLAN/EVPN and customer-provided networking models. \nKubernetes, container-based infrastructure, Terraform or Ansible equivalents, and public-cloud, private-cloud, or high-assurance cloud-adjacent APIs; hyperscaler or partner cloud experience is helpful but not required. \nPrior work against contractual service levels, acceptance-test programs, or 24x7 operational support models. \nFamiliarity with observability, release-health dashboards, reliability metrics, and engineering mechanisms for improving system availability, performance, and qualification throughput. \nCompensation:\nThe target salary range for this position is 196,350 - 292,600 USD. The salary offered will be determined by the candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and education and may be outside of this range. The range is based on 'On Target Earnings’ (OTE) representing the total potential earnings, which is the sum of the base salary and potential commission earned when performance targets are achieved. Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards, reflecting a variety of factors, and include a comprehensive benefits package. This may cover Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Retirement or Pension Plans, Paid Time Off, various Leave options, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSU’s). These offerings are subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies. 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