Senior DevOps Lead​/Manager – hybrid Revel IT

Position: Senior DevOps Lead / Manager – hybrid Revel IT

OUR GOAL

Treat our consultants and clients the way we would like others to treat us! Interested in joining our team? Check out the opportunity below and apply today!

THE ROLE

• This person has operated at both a strategic and execution level in a small to mid‑sized company and is trusted to set technical direction, make platform and infrastructure decisions, and guide the team on what to do and why.
• This is a hands‑on lead or manager role, working directly with one (and potentially two) Dev Ops engineers, and partnering closely with the Engineering Manager. The goal is to remove operational burden from Engineering while improving clarity, reliability, and scalability across our systems.
• This role leads by doing, not just directing.

WHAT YOU’LL ACTUALLY DO OWNERSHIP & EXECUTION

• Own and execute the deployment process end‑to‑end, making it repeatable, teachable, and transparent, while executing deployments, troubleshooting, and on‑call rotation.
• Own day‑to‑day Dev Ops operations, including infrastructure management, monitoring, logging, autoscaling, security posture, patching, and maintenance to ensure systems are reliable and well understood.

ASSESSMENT & STRATEGY

• Audit the current state: identify what is truly opaque vs. what just feels risky.
• Define a practical, scalable Dev Ops strategy.
• Establish clear patterns so new projects follow known paths.

MODERNIZATION & SCALABILITY

• Work with existing team and contractor to turn vision into execution.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation with clear failure signals, diagnostics, and recovery paths when automation breaks.
• Own and guide future scalability of infrastructure, databases, and system architecture.
• Help modularize Traverse by understanding how components fit together and what that requires.

TEACHING & ENABLEMENT

• Pair with developers during deployments to build shared understanding and confidence.
• Help engineers understand how to modify deployments, not just run them.
• Document with developers in mind, explaining both how and why.
• Build a culture where Dev Ops knowledge is shared, not siloed.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE IN THE FIRST 30 DAYS

• Deliver a documented assessment of the current Dev Ops state.
• Produce and own a clear, prioritized Dev Ops roadmap for the first six months.
• Start hands‑on execution with the team against that strategy.

IN THE FIRST 6 MONTHS

• Deliver reliable, documented, and repeatable deployment processes.
• Enable two additional engineers to independently execute and modify deployments.
• Normalize on‑call operations with predictable, supportable coverage.
• Ensure failures are diagnosable with clear root‑cause visibility.
• Transition Dev Ops knowledge from individual‑dependent to standardized and shared.

WHO WILL SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE

• Is deeply hands‑on but thinks strategically.
• Can confidently say “here’s what we should do, and here’s why.”
• Enjoys teaching and raising the technical confidence of others.
• Has operated in environments where structure needed to be built, not inherited.
• Values clarity, ownership, and practical solutions over complexity.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

• Advanced programming experience (Python, Go, Ruby, etc.).
• Proficiency with Linux/Unix administration, scripting, and programming (bash, Python, Ruby, etc.).
• Deep expertise with core Dev Ops technologies such as Docker, Terraform, Ansible, and Cloud Formation.
• Advanced proficiency with configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.).
• Strong experience with database administration.
• Strong troubleshooting and monitoring skills for Linux operating systems.
• Hands‑on experience implementing monitoring and log aggregation platforms (ELK, Graylog, Graphite, Prometheus, etc.).
• Experience automating the provisioning, deployment, and scaling of resources and applications using CI/CD workflows.
• Experience with testing automation tools and frameworks.
• Experience deploying and managing web and application servers, load balancers, queues, and caches; proven ability to scale and build resiliency into web application architectures. Experience deploying a 12‑Factor App is a plus.
• Proficiency with source control systems and IaC to create scriptable, repeatable processes.
• AWS experience is a…