Development Operations Manager
Alaka`ina Foundation
- Kirtland, NM
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Manages and appropriately escalates delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes associated to the product development initiatives
- Assigns and monitors work of technical personnel, ensuring that application development and deployment is done in the best possible way, and implements quality control and review systems throughout the development and deployment processes
- Displays technical leadership and oversight of implementation and deployment planning, system integration, ongoing data validation processes, quality assurance, delivery, operations, and sustainability of technical solutions
- Evaluates technological choices (network/hardware related and technology/code related) by querying providers and providing evaluations of each solution include ROI evaluations in the present and future implications, limitations, and opportunities
- Possesses excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of developers, product owners, and subject matter experts
- Exercises broadly delegated authority for planning, directing, coordinating, administering, and executing both routine and complex technical elements of technical operations
- Manages operational aspect of production and development servers including developing, training in, and validating compliance with procedures and checklists related to disk space usage, monitoring solutions, deployment, conventions, access to the production and development sources, source control access and usage, performance monitoring, code modifications validation, scheduling, and more
- Works within IT, cross-functionally and with vendors, in order to identify, prioritize, and resolve issues and provide subject matter expertise for enhancements, developments, and operational improvements.
- Identifies technical and process improvement opportunities and socialize/advocate to get them implemented
- Possesses expert technical understanding of the intersection of development and operations (DevOps), monitoring and management tools, and deployment processes and tools
- Possesses high level understanding in the areas of web application programming, content management systems, API, databases, and system design
- Provides process improvement recommendations based on best practices and industry standards
- Resolves conflicts by demonstrating leadership and appropriate decision-making competencies
- Other duties as assigned by Supervisor.
- Bachelors Degree or five (5) years equivalent work experience
- Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) certification
- Current Project Management Professional Certification
- Experience managing an IT program for an educational institution.
- Experience with information security
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
- Ability to obtain and maintain “Q” (Top Secret) access authorization