Head of DevOps
Core
Lead and scale a global DevOps team to transform complex, manual, text-based configuration processes into semi-automated, scalable generator-based systems.
Role type
Senior leadership DevOps Head (hands-on strategic)
Builds
Automated infrastructure, generator-based configuration systems, and scalable deployment pipelines
Domain
On-premises large-scale systems, financial industry (low-latency trading) (via careerplan.io/jobs/E5-00E-68-378-head-of-devops)
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
DevOps/SRE leadership, Linux system administration (RedHat 8), version control (Git/SVN), scripting (Python), database versioning, CI/CD pipeline management, automation tools (Ansible), container technologies (Docker), incident response, security hardening
Preferred skills
Financial industry experience, low-latency trading systems, RPM packaging, MariaDB/MySQL DBA-level management, messaging systems (Solace), Solarflare network cards, BigData tooling, C++ optimization, on-prem security best practices, GitLab/Jenkins expertise