Director of DevOps

Who we are

We support about 60 local businesses, most within 30 minutes of the office. Every tech does a bit of everything, from printer jams to firewall rules.

About the role

Our Manchester team is growing and we are hiring a Director of DevOps. The operations team supports about 40 developers. We need someone to make deploys faster and less scary. We are moving workloads from VMs to Kubernetes and want someone who has done that kind of migration before. This position is on site in Manchester.

What you'll work on

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or Azure DevOps
• Run Kubernetes clusters on EKS, AKS or GKE and maintain Helm charts
• Script repetitive tasks in Bash, Python or PowerShell
• Handle secrets with HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager or Azure Key Vault
• Support developers with environment issues, failed builds and deployment questions
• Automate server configuration with Ansible
• Enforce security baselines: CIS benchmarks, image scanning, least-privilege IAM

You might be a good fit if you

• 8+ years in DevOps, systems engineering or a related infrastructure role
• Solid Linux administration and networking basics (DNS, load balancers, TLS)
• Built at least one CI/CD pipeline from scratch
• Calm under pressure during outages

Pay and benefits

Salary range: $225,000-$260,000/year

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one
• 401(k) with 4% match
• Paid holidays

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Torchboard Computer Services.