Manager, DevOps

Sphera is a leading global provider of enterprise software and services that enables companies to manage and optimize their environmental, health, safety and sustainability. Our mission is to create a safer, more sustainable and productive world.

Sphera is a portfolio company of Blackstone, a U.S.

-based alternative asset investment company that focuses on private equity, technology and innovation, and more. Blackstone businesses succeed through strong partnerships, a personalized approach and a commitment to exceptional performance with uncompromising integrity. Sphera and Blackstone are leaders in the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) space.

We are guided by our core values of Customer Centricity, Accountability, Bias to Action, Innovation, and Collaboration. These values help us recruit the right talent to join our rapidly expanding team of around the globe. It is important to us that each and every Spherion is not only eager to challenge themselves and knows how to get work done but is an awesome addition to our company culture.

Sphera's Development Operations team builds, runs and secures the cloud environments behind our software products. The Dev Ops Manager leads part of the team day to day and works as a peer with the other managers in Development Operations: one set of standards, one way of planning and reporting, and cover for each other when someone is away.

As a Dev Ops Manager you make sure your team's work is planned, delivered on time and done safely. You are the person product teams, Customer Care and Professional Services rely on to turn their requests into working environments, and the person your engineers rely on for

clear priorities, unblocking and growth.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You don't need to write every pipeline, but you need to read one, review a change request, and challenge a design with confidence.

• Lead a team of Dev Ops engineers and leads, including staff from partner vendors, by setting clear expectations, holding regular 1:1s, and giving specific, actionable feedback.
• Balance workloads across product-line support, projects, and tickets, and catch over-allocation and burnout risk early, before they affect delivery.
• Own the hiring process: define role requirements, conduct interviews, and onboard new engineers so they become productive quickly.
• Develop talent by coaching engineers toward lead roles and leads toward management.

• Own your team’s backlog in Azure Dev Ops, turning requests into well-scoped epics, features, and backlog items with clear owners and due dates.
• Drive Dev Ops projects through milestones, schedules, and SLAs, and report status candidly, especially when something is running late.
• Review and approve customer environment and integration setups, ensuring requirements are complete before work begins.

• Make sure every production change goes through change management, with the right approvals, testing and rollback plan.
• Own operational readiness for the services your team supports: monitoring, alerting, backups, DR validation and handover to support.
• Lead incident response and follow-up for your area and turn every significant incident into a lasting fix.
• Apply Sphera's information security rules in day-to-day work: least-privilege access, no shared or hard-coded secrets, and evidence for audits.

• Agree shared standards with your fellow Dev Ops Managers for planning, estimation, reviews, on-call and reporting, so engineers and stakeholders get the same experience whichever team they work with.
• Cover each other's teams during absences and move people between teams when priorities call for it.
• Bring the Director a joint view of capacity, risks and priorities across the teams, rather than separate ones.

• Push for automation and infrastructure as code over manual steps, and standard patterns over one-offs.
• Partner with Fin Ops on cloud cost: right-sizing, decommissioning and making cost visible to product owners.
• Keep runbooks, handbook articles and the wiki current, so the next engineer can follow the process without being walked through it.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Professional Services, Customer Care and Info Sec on roadmaps and dependencies.

• 8+ years in Dev Ops, SRE, cloud infrastructure or platform engineering, including 2+ years leading engineers as a people manager or team…