Software Development Tools Manager
Core
Lead the strategy, operation, and continuous improvement of the software development life cycle (SDLC) toolchain to enable product delivery, quality, and developer productivity.
Role type
Manager, Software Development Tools / Platform Engineering
Builds
The SDLC toolchain including planning, source control, CI/CD, testing, release management, and observability platforms.
Domain
Software Engineering / DevOps / Platform Engineering
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
SDLC toolchain strategy, people management, vendor relationship management, automation (scripting, pipeline-as-code, IaC), monitoring and logging, stakeholder management, security compliance, change management, team recruitment and mentoring.
Preferred skills
Enterprise Atlassian stack administration, GitHub Enterprise and modern CI/CD patterns, software security tooling (SCA, SAST, DAST), distributed team management, cloud platform certifications.
Technologies
Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Artifactory, Nexus, SonarQube, Vault, HashiCorp, Okta, Terraform, Ansible, Snyk, Dependabot.
Responsibilities
Define and execute the SDLC tools roadmap; lead a cross-functional tools team; maintain and operate core platforms; drive automation in build/test/deploy pipelines; partner with engineering teams to define best practices; manage vendor relationships and licensing; define and measure SLAs/KPIs/ROI; lead incident response and postmortems; build change management and governance; create documentation and training materials; champion security and compliance; recruit and mentor team members.
Seniority
Manager, hands-on leadership