Sr. Manager, DevOps

Job Overview

We are seeking a visionary Senior Manager to lead our global DevOps organization and drive transformation across our software delivery lifecycle. This role is pivotal to our mission of accelerating feature delivery while maintaining the highest standards of quality and reliability for our SaaS platform serving thousands of customers worldwide. The successful candidate will lead distributed engineering teams across the US, Ireland, and India while modernizing our development and deployment practices.

Success Metrics:

• Deployment Velocity: Increased deployment frequency with reduced lead times
• Quality: Reduced change failure rates and improved automated test coverage
• Developer Productivity: Improved developer satisfaction, reduced new hire time-to-productivity
• Platform Reliability: Improved uptime, MTTR and performance
• Team Growth: Successful scaling of global DevOps organization with low attrition
• Modernization Progress: Achievement of key migration milestones (Kubernetes adoption, database migration, CI/CD transformation)

About Us

When you join iCIMS, you join the team helping global companies transform business and the world through the power of talent. Our customers do amazing things: design rocket ships, create vaccines, deliver consumer goods globally, overnight, with a smile. As the Talent Cloud company, we empower these organizations to attract, engage, hire, and advance the right talent. We're passionate about helping companies build a diverse, winning workforce and about building our home team. We're dedicated to fostering an inclusive, purpose-driven, and innovative work environment where everyone belongs.

Responsibilities

Leadership & Strategy

• Lead and scale a global DevOps organization spanning multiple time zones
• Develop and execute comprehensive DevOps strategy aligned with engineering velocity goals
• Drive cultural transformation, DevOps practices, automation-first mindset, continuous improvement
• Partner closely with VP of Engineering and Product teams to optimize software delivery pipelines
• Measure and improve deployment frequency, lead time, and change failure rate

Development Velocity, Quality and Experience Focus

• Create friendly, self-service tooling, and local development environment standardization
• Implement comprehensive logging, monitoring, and debugging capabilities for development teams
• Drive adoption of modern development practices including GitOps and trunk-based development
• Drive implementation of feature flags, blue-green deployments, and canary releases
• Enable development teams to deploy independently with confidence
• Implement automated rollback and recovery mechanisms for rapid issue resolution

CI/CD Pipeline Excellence

• Transform current CI/CD infrastructure to industry-standard solutions (GitHub Actions, or similar)
• Optimize containerization strategy for improved scalability and deployment flexibility
• Establish automated build, test, and deployment pipelines for diverse technology stack including: Java/Spring Boot applications and legacy monoliths, Node.js/React single-page applications, Python-based AI/ML services, Mobile applications (iOS/Android), Legacy systems requiring specialized deployment approaches

Security & Compliance Integration

• Support DevSecOps practices with security scanning integrated into all pipelines
• Drive secret management and secure credential handling across all environments
• Support vulnerability management and automated patching processes

Qualifications

Leadership Experience

• 15+ years in DevOps, Platform or Software Engineering roles. 5+ years in leadership positions.
• Proven track record building and scaling global teams across multiple time zones
• Experience leading large-scale platform and technology modernization initiatives
• Strong organizational skills. Ability to influence and drive cross-functional cultural change

Technical Expertise

• Deep expertise in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
• Extensive experience with containerization and orchestration
• Strong background in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
• Proficiency with multi-cloud environments (AWS primary, Azure secondary)
• Experience with large-scale Java applications, Spring Boot, and legacy system modernization

DevOps & Platform Engineering

• Demonstrated success implementing DevOps practices in large-scale environments
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK)
• Background in automated testing frameworks and quality assurance integration
• Knowledge of security scanning tools and DevSecOps practices
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL data platform deployments and management

Preferred

• Background with authentication and IDAM systems (Auth0/Okta, SAML, OAuth)
• Experience with API management platforms and microservices architectures
• Previous exposure to AI/ML pipeline automation and model deployment
• Knowledge of mobile app CI/CD and app store deployment automation
• Experience with legacy system modernization and strangler fig patterns

EEO Statement

iCIMS is a place where everyone belongs. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Our approach helps us to build a winning team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and abilities. So, regardless of how your diversity expresses itself, you can find a home here at iCIMS. We are proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, genetic information, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. If you'd like to view a copy of the company's affirmative action plan or policy statement and/or if you would like to request an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at .

Compensation and Benefits

We accept applications for this position on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and qualified candidates may be contacted throughout the posting period.

The anticipated base pay range for this position is $150,000-200,000 annually. Additional compensation for this role includes a bonus eligibility, which is based on personal, department and/or company performance, where applicable. Final compensation will be based on factors such as relevant experience, skills, education, internal equity, and market data. This range aligns with our commitment to equitable and transparent compensation practices, as required by applicable law.

Competitive health and wellness benefits include medical, dental, vision, 401(k), dependent care, short term and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, bonding and parental leave, mindfulness resources, an open vacation policy, sick days, paid holidays, quiet hours each workday, and tuition reimbursement. Benefits and eligibility may vary by location, role, and tenure. Learn more here: .