DevOps Project Manager

Roles and Responsibilities

Project Planning & End-to-End Delivery

• Lead the end-to-end planning and delivery of complex DevOps initiatives, from mobilization and scope definition through implementation, rollout, stabilization, and handoff.
• Create and maintain an integrated delivery plan covering:
• Squad deliverables
• Cross-team dependencies
• Milestones and timelines
• Environment readiness
• Testing and approvals
• Communications
• Rollout activities
• Operational readiness
• Identify and manage the critical path, ensuring dependencies and deliverables remain aligned with overall project objectives.

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Coordinate delivery across one or more DevOps squads and enterprise partner teams, including:
• Infrastructure
• Cloud
• Security
• ServiceNow
• Application teams
• Data teams
• Platform teams
• Quality Engineering
• Production Support
• Work closely with Product Owners, Technical Leads, Architects, Engineers, Quality Engineers, Security teams, and business/technology stakeholders to clarify:
• Business and technical outcomes
• Roles and responsibilities
• Delivery sequencing
• Acceptance criteria
• Dependencies and constraints

Governance & Delivery Management

• Establish appropriate governance structures, meeting cadences, decision-making paths, delivery controls, and escalation mechanisms.
• Manage and maintain:
• Scope
• Schedule
• Resources
• Risks
• Issues
• Assumptions
• Dependencies
• Decisions
• Changes
• Ensure ownership, accountability, and target dates remain clearly defined.
• Drive action closure and proactively address delivery gaps, conflicting priorities, resource constraints, access issues, environment blockers, data-quality concerns, and integration dependencies.

Testing, Release & Operational Readiness

• Coordinate test planning, user acceptance testing, production-readiness reviews, implementation activities, and post-implementation validation.
• Manage required evidence, approvals, and sign-offs for releases and implementations.
• Coordinate releases across Development, Stage, and Production environments.
• Ensure operational ownership, support processes, documentation, and handoff activities are completed successfully.

Stakeholder Management & Communication

• Prepare concise, decision-focused status reports for program and DevOps leadership covering:
• Accomplishments
• Upcoming milestones
• Delivery forecast
• Dependencies
• Risks and issues
• Decisions required
• Recovery actions
• Coordinate stakeholder communications, readiness activities, demonstrations, information sessions, support planning, and adoption activities.
• Translate complex technical delivery details into clear business impacts, risks, and decision points.

Documentation & Continuous Improvement

• Ensure deliverables, processes, decisions, and operational ownership are properly documented and transitioned to the appropriate teams.
• Apply lessons learned and continuous-improvement practices to:
• Improve delivery predictability
• Reduce manual effort
• Strengthen delivery processes
• Reduce recurring operational risks

What You Need to Succeed

Project & Delivery Management

• Strong project-management experience delivering complex technology initiatives involving multiple squads, platforms, and enterprise partner teams.
• Demonstrated experience working on initiatives involving:
• DevOps
• Software delivery
• Developer platforms
• CI/CD
• Security controls
• Source-code management
• Engineering enablement
• Ability to build integrated plans, identify the true critical path, manage interdependent deliverables, and hold multiple teams accountable for commitments.

DevOps & Software Delivery Knowledge

• Practical understanding of the software development and delivery lifecycle.
• Understanding of the relationship between:
• Source-code repositories
• Build pipelines
• Security scanning
• Deployment orchestration
• Environments
• Approvals
• Production support
• Ability to work effectively with both technical specialists and business stakeholders.

Risk, Issue & Dependency Management

• Excellent risk, issue, dependency, and change-management skills.
• Sound judgment regarding when to:
• Resolve issues independently
• Escalate risks
• Engage stakeholders
• Seek leadership decisions
• Strong ability to proactively identify blockers and drive them to resolution.

Leadership & Communication

• Excellent facilitation, written communication, organization, and follow-through.
• Confidence working with senior leaders, technical specialists, and cross-functional teams.
• Ability to operate effectively in a matrixed environment where delivery depends on teams that may not report directly to the Project Manager.
• Self-directed, pragmatic, and outcome-focused.
• Comfortable bringing structure and clarity to ambiguous or evolving initiatives.

Required Experience

DevOps Tools & Platforms

• Experience with standard DevOps tools, practices, and Enterprise Pipeline environments is strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of tools and platforms such as:
• Bitbucket / GitHub
• Jenkins
• CDD
• Jira
• Confluence
• ServiceNow
• Checkmarx One
• Snyk
• Kosli
• Grafana
• Tableau
• Cloud platforms
• Infrastructure and deployment technologies

Security & Compliance

• Experience coordinating security-control implementation and related delivery activities.
• Experience with:
• Vulnerability-management workflows
• Security exceptions
• Compliance evidence
• Release gating
• Production-readiness activities
• Security approvals and controls

Data & Application Management

• Experience working with application inventories and application portfolio identifiers.
• Familiarity with:
• Repository metadata
• Data reconciliation
• Database updates
• Dashboards
• ETL processes
• Data-quality remediation

Release & Environment Management

• Experience supporting releases across Dev, Stage, and Production environments.
• Experience coordinating:
• Technical testing
• Business validation
• Implementation
• Production deployment
• Post-implementation verification
• Experience managing dependencies and readiness across multiple technical teams.

Project Management & Agile Tools

• Experience with Jira and/or Planview AgilePlace.
• Project-management certification or formal Agile delivery training is an asset; however, demonstrated delivery experience is more important than certification alone.