Manager, DevOps

About Flight Safety International

Flight Safety International is the world’s premier professional aviation training company and supplier of flight simulators, visual systems and displays to commercial, government and military organizations. The company provides training for pilots, technicians and other aviation professionals from 167 countries and independent territories. Flight Safety operates the world’s largest fleet of advanced full-flight simulators and award-winning maintenance training at Learning Centers and training locations in the United States, Canada, France and the United Kingdom.

The Dev Ops Manager proactively and holistically leads and supports architecture/engineering activities that guide the development and management of technical Engineering and Simulation infrastructure solutions. These solutions enable the organization's future-state business capabilities and drive the organization's targeted business outcomes. Technologies include Simulation stack technology matching IT data center, infrastructure, cloud, mobile, AI, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, edge computing, and immersive experiences technologies.

In addition, the Dev Ops Manager ensures deliverables that help develop target-state guidance (reusable standards, guidelines, individual parts, platforms, and configurations) for evolving the technical infrastructure across the enterprise to enable business strategy and deliver targeted business outcomes related to modern full flight simulation development, security, and operations.

• Team Management: Lead, mentor, and coach a high-performing team of engineers, directly managing performance, career growth, and daily technical execution (5+ years required experience).
• Dev Ops & SRE Advocacy: Promote Dev Ops principles, automated workflows, and a Site Reliability Engineering culture across the engineering organization.
• On-Call & Support Leadership: Oversee Level 1 support, manage the monitoring of customer-facing systems, and coordinate 24/7 on‑call rotation activities.
• Enterprise Operations: Architect, operate, and maintain on prem and cloud infrastructure supporting high-volume, business-critical enterprise applications (5+ years’ experience required).
• Database Systems: 3+ years of experience working with database architectures including SQL, AWS RDS, Oracle SQL, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch.
• CI/CD Pipelines: Proven experience designing and building continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines, preferably using Azure Dev Ops or Git Lab
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• Fundamentals: Hands‑on proficiency with Git fundamentals and scripting languages (Bash, Python, or equivalent).

• Education: Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution or equivalent industry experience.
• Compliance: Direct experience implementing and maintaining systems within highly regulated frameworks, specifically SOX, PCI-DSS, or NIST Compliance
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• Management: 5+ years managing direct reports within an engineering or operations environment.
• Systems & Software: 5+ years of experience managing core operating systems (Windows, Red Hat, CentOS, Amazon Linux), web servers (Nginx, Apache), and modern software packages (Terraform, Bash, Sh).
• Observability & Analytics: 5+ years of experience integrating monitoring, alerting, and reporting tools (New Relic, Akamai, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Prometheus) into new and existing systems.
• Microservices & Containers: 3+ years of experience implementing and supporting microservices using containers and orchestrators (Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Rancher, or Terraform).

• SDLC & Dev Ops: Deep understanding of software development life cycle methodologies (Agile, Dev Ops) and IT compliance standards.
• Networking Protocols: Solid understanding of the OSI/TCP-IP models and networking protocols (IPSEC, BGP, OSPF, HSRP, QoS).
• Security & Architecture: Developed understanding of secure network architecture, information principles, and infrastructure design.
• CI/CD & Automation: Proven experience building automated CI/CD workflows, configuration management, and release processes.
• Coding & Scripting: …