Sr. DevOps Lead

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Liberty Puerto Rico: The most complete communications, technology, and entertainment company offering a truly better way to live and connect with what matters most, wherever you are, doing it better than any other company.

What's the role?

As a DevOps Lead reporting to the DevOps Manager, you will play a pivotal role in leading and driving the implementation of DevOps practices within our organization. Your responsibilities will span overseeing a team of DevOps engineers, collaborating with development and operations teams, and ensuring the seamless integration of continuous testing alongside continuous integration and delivery practices to achieve high-quality software solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Provide guidance and support to team members, ensuring they meet individual and team goals.
• Collaborate with the DevOps Manager to define and execute the overall DevOps strategy for the organization.
• Contribute to the development of roadmaps, goals, and objectives for the DevOps team.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable automated integration, testing, deployment, and delivery of software.
• Implement and advocate for continuous testing practices, including automated unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing.
• Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code practices, utilizing tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation to automate infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Implement containerization using Docker and orchestration with tools like Kubernetes.
• Optimize containerized deployments for scalability, reliability, and resource efficiency.
• Implement monitoring and alerting solutions for applications and infrastructure.
• Proactively identify and address performance bottlenecks and system issues.
• Collaborate with security teams to integrate security best practices into the CI/CD pipeline.
• Ensure compliance with industry regulations and internal security policies.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of DevOps processes, configurations, and best practices.
• Provide training and documentation to team members to ensure knowledge transfer and skill development.

Preferred education/ qualifications:

• Graduate level (bachelors or higher) degree in Information Technology or related field. Significant technical centric job experience (3+ years) can count in place of technical degree.
• Agile qualifications preferred, PMI-ACP or SCRUM.
• Hold relevant DevOps certifications, such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, or Docker Certified Associate.

Knowledge & Experience:

• Proven experience in a DevOps role with increasing responsibilities.
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle, deployment processes, and environment management best practices.
• Leadership experience in managing and mentoring DevOps teams.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, continuous testing, IaC, containerization, and orchestration.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP). Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
• Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes). Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Experience of working with modern DevOps tools as Jenkins, Atlassian, Github, and other automation frameworks for testing, build and deployment.
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools.
• Knowledge of security best practices in a DevOps environment.
• Deep knowledge and experience and belief in Agile methodology.
• Demonstrable experience of working in complex operational environment managing cross-functional teams.
• Experience in telco industry, preferably in an international multi-market environment.
• Proven experience engaging effectively with and senior level management.
• Experience and appreciation of working in a customer focused environment essential.
• Experience working in cross-functional, international teams.
• Track record of concurrently handling a variety of projects while coordinating and supporting the efforts of cross-functional team members
• Preferably bi-lingual English Spanish or optionally, excellent skills in one of the languages and fluency on the other

Skills & Abilities:

• Passion, drive, and commitment to creating results.
• Team management skills.
• Leadership skills.
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to manage and prioritize a diverse set of multiple and complex milestones and activities.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Problem-solving and analytics skills.