Developer Experience Strategy Manager

Job description:

The DevEx Strategy Manager leads a team of DevOps engineers responsible for the platforms, pipelines, and infrastructure that enable fast, secure, and reliable software delivery. This role combines people leadership, technical direction, and operational excellence to scale automation, strengthen reliability, and improve the developer experience in alignment with business priorities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of DevOps engineers through regular feedback, performance management, career planning, and mentoring.
• Own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, container platforms, and developer tooling.
• Drive adoption of infrastructure as code, configuration management, and automation to improve consistency, speed, and repeatability.
• Ensure platform reliability, availability, and performance through observability, SLOs, capacity planning, and effective incident and problem management.
• Embed security and compliance into delivery pipelines and platforms in partnership with security, risk, and architecture teams.
• Partner with application engineering, product, and operations teams to improve deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and recovery time.
• Manage cloud and tooling costs, vendor relationships, and platform investments with a focus on efficiency and value.
• Recruit, onboard, and retain strong DevOps talent while fostering an inclusive, accountable, and continuous-improvement culture.

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience leading a DevOps, platform, infrastructure, or site reliability engineering team, including direct people-management responsibility.
• Strong hands-on background in CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps).
• Deep experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and with containers and orchestration, including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or equivalent.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools and with running production incident response.
• Proven ability to develop engineers, manage performance, and build effective teams.
• Excellent communication, decision-making, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with DevSecOps practices, including software supply chain security, artifact management (e.g., JFrog Artifactory), and vulnerability management.
• Experience building internal developer platforms or developer portals and applying platform engineering principles.
• Familiarity with DORA metrics, SRE practices, and FinOps.
• Experience managing distributed or global teams in a regulated enterprise environment.
• Relevant certifications such as AWS, Azure, Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD), or HashiCorp Terraform.

Skills

AWS, Azure, Azure DevOps, CI / CD, DevOps, Docker, GCP, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, Kubernetes, SRE, Site Reliability