DevOps Manager

Are you interested in growing and leading a global DevOps team? Do you want a role that blends building innovative new products and evolving established, successful products? Do you like to be in an agile environment that develops market leading products and has frequent product releases? If so, we should get to know one another.

Benefits of this role

• Work for an industry leader with market leading products and continually investing in building new eager to evolve, build, and automate our technical methods on a global scale and invests in your personal growth
• Collaborate with a global team that shares ideas, welcomes innovation, learns from its mistakes and develops elegant products and solutions

Specific Responsibilities

• Lead a cohesive team responsible for several SaaS products and releases
• Work closely with leaders across development, product and support teams to build high scalability and availability processes
• Leverage Chef configuration management system to develop automation and monitoring across web application life cycle management
• Evolve disaster recovery and business continuity plans and processes
• Automate scalable, highly available application deployments in a greenfield environment and improve efficiency of infrastructure
• Implement code, automation tools, custom tools and scripts as necessary to evolve systems and processes

SmartBear Is A Destination Employer

• Voted by Glassdoor as one of the Best Places, Named to Boston Globe’s “Top Places To Work”, Glassdoor’s “Best Companies To Work For” and VentureFizz calls us one of “One of The Hottest Companies in Boston”.
• Invest In Our Employees – We care about the success of our employees and provide guidance and tools to help them grow their careers and succeed. We seek to continuously learn and evolve and strive to be the company of choice.
• Open and Collaborative Environment – We have an inclusive, creative, passionate, fun and successful environment.
• Award Winning Technology – SmartBear is a market leader and has won numerous, prestigious industry awards for its software solutions, including “Top Innovator and Leader In Software Development”.
• Invested Leadership Team - Our leadership team has a proven record of success, is passionate about the success of the employees and company and focused on supporting the sales organization.
• Unbelievable Offices – We are in a new, state-of-the-art building, on the waterfront, with an modern layout and a giant kitchen and eating area. We have an open floor plan and an abundance of conference rooms. The office is centered on the “Bear Cave”, for impromptu collaboration, company gatherings, monthly drinks, wine tastings and industry Meetups and events. We’ve also left space for fun with a ping-pong table, putting green, bean bag toss and other ways to have a quick break during the day.
• Ideal Location - We are located at Assembly Row, which is the new, hot, technology company destination, with great water views, restaurants, cafes, bars, shopping, movie complex, bike and running paths and is easily accessible by mass transportation. There’s even a community garden where SmartBear grows its own vegetables.
• Great Perks – We offer competitive salaries, top of the line benefits, ample vacation, 401(k) match, great eats – breakfast, lunches, coffee (regular, gourmet, espresso, lattes), drinks, healthy and sweet snacks and a constant flow of popcorn from a retro movie theatre machine.
• Community Service and Philanthropy - SmartBear is committed to giving back to the community. We offer employees a day off to serve the cause of their choice or work in teams to support an organization. SmartBear also contributes time and donates to meaningful organizations, such as aiding at-risk children and combatting homelessness.
• Thought Leader and Innovator – SmartBear strives to be a thought leader and innovator in the technology industry. We frequently support Meetups, are a member of Women In Technology, MassTLC and other premier organizations.

About SmartBear

SmartBear is a combination of a start-up, high growth culture and environment, with an established, financially strong, 300 employees across six global locations company. We provide leading companies with the technology to help them build some of the greatest applications, high performing websites, electronic shopping carts, SaaS and cloud-based software solutions throughout every step of the development cycle from coding, to testing, to launch, to monitoring performance. We work with companies such as Google, Disney, Apple, jetBlue, Johnson & Johnson and leading venture-backed, start-ups (as well as 25,000+ other companies). We have a community of over 4 million users that leverage our software and solutions. Please visit smartbear.com for more information and where you can find out the origin of the SmartBear name.

Qualifications

• Manage a team of personnel or serve as a project team lead
• Expertise with one or more tools to manage software deployment such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible and/or Salt
• Hands on experience with host and cloud infrastructure, most notably AWS
• Knowledge of one or more scripting languages such as Ruby, Python, or Perl used in DevOps life cycles
• Experience with relational/NoSQL databases such as MySQL and MongoDB
• Understanding of cloud based application deployment patterns and knowledge of OpenStack and cloud computing practices
• Automate build and deployments with GitHub, Jenkins, and/or DockerHub
• Load balancing, reverse proxying and security with HAProxy
• Micro-services experience
• Work on a modern SaaS application
• Authorized to legally work in the United States (minimum of H1-B)