Role Overview:
Virtana is seeking a Senior Manager, Global DevOps Engineering to lead the global team, platforms, and infrastructure that enable rapid, reliable product delivery. This leader will own DevOps strategy and execution across SaaS (GCP heavy, with presence in AWS and Azure) & on-premises Infrastructure, CI/CD, automation, reliability, security, and developer productivity, while aligning distributed teams and cross-functional stakeholders around measurable business outcomes.
Key Accountabilities:
- Strategy and Execution: Set the global DevOps roadmap and operating model, aligned with product, engineering, and business priorities.
- Global Leadership: Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team across geographies, with clear accountability and consistent engineering practices.
- Cloud and Platform Ownership: Own the architecture, reliability, security, scalability, and cost efficiency of global GCP and hybrid infrastructure.
- Software Delivery: Advance secure, standardized CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automation, and self-service capabilities to accelerate delivery and improve quality.
- Operational Excellence: Establish SLOs, observability, incident response, disaster recovery, governance and metrics for critical platforms. Own the global on-call program and serve as the escalation point for major incidents from SaaS Infra/DevOps side.
- Executive Partnership: Align stakeholders on priorities, investments, dependencies, and risk; communicate outcomes and tradeoffs to senior leadership.
Required Qualifications:
- 15+ years in software engineering, infrastructure, cloud operations, or DevOps, including 5+ years leading senior or management-level teams.
- Proven success in leading global teams across geographies, cultures, and time zones.
- Deep expertise in GCP architecture, security, networking, reliability, and cost governance.
- Demonstrated ownership of enterprise CI/CD, build and release automation, and modern software delivery practices.
- Strong experience with Terraform or equivalent Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, containers, observability, SRE, and disaster recovery.
- Track record operating secure, resilient global infrastructure for fast-paced development and release environments.
- Daily hands-on use of AI tools (e.g., Claude) for IaC, CI/CD pipelines and incident response, with a record of driving AI adoption that improves delivery speed and quality.
- Executive-level communication and stakeholder leadership, with the ability to align priorities, resolve tradeoffs, and develop strong leaders.