Senior Manager, DevOps

Qcells is seeking a Senior Manager, Dev Ops to lead the Dev Ops function within our Operations and Platform Management organization and own the strategy, architecture, and operational execution of the Dev Ops foundation supporting our critical infrastructure energy management platform.

This leader will be responsible for building and managing a high-performing Dev Ops team while establishing scalable, secure, and highly automated engineering practices across cloud and edge environments. The Senior Manager will define the organization's approach to Git Ops, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, deployment automation, platform security, observability, and compliance.

The ideal candidate combines strong people leadership and organizational management experience with deep technical expertise in modern Dev Ops and platform engineering. This individual will partner closely with Engineering, SRE, Security, Architecture, Product, and Operations teams to improve software delivery, platform reliability, security, and operational efficiency.

Because Qcells operates critical energy infrastructure, this role requires experience building secure and resilient Dev Ops environments with strong governance, auditability, and compliance controls.

This position is remote but preference will be give to San Francisco, Irvine and nearby candidates. Travel may be required up to 15%, depending on business needs.

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Dev Ops and platform engineers responsible for supporting cloud and edge infrastructure.
• Establish the Dev Ops strategy, operating model, technical roadmap, priorities, and engineering standards for the organization.
• Build a high-performing engineering culture focused on automation, reliability, security, scalability, and continuous improvement.
• Manage team capacity, resource planning, performance, career development, and technical skill development.
• Partner with engineering and business leadership to align Dev Ops priorities with product roadmaps and organizational objectives.
• Establish measurable Dev Ops KPIs and service-level metrics to evaluate deployment performance, reliability, quality, and operational efficiency.
• Drive adoption of Dev Ops best practices across engineering teams through standards, documentation, governance, and training.

• Own the architecture, implementation, and continuous improvement of enterprise CI/CD and Git Ops capabilities.
• Establish Git Ops workflows for configuration management across multi-site data center, cloud, and edge deployments with comprehensive audit trails.
• Lead the development of secure CI/CD pipelines for containerized applications targeting Azure cloud and edge Kubernetes environments.
• Define enterprise standards for source control, branching, build automation, testing, artifact management, deployment, and release management.
• Implement deployment strategies including canary releases, blue-green deployments, progressive delivery, and automated rollback.
• Improve developer productivity and deployment velocity through standardized tooling, automation, and reusable platform capabilities.
• Establish and govern infrastructure as code practices using Terraform, Ansible, or similar technologies.
• Ensure infrastructure environments are reproducible, scalable, secure, and consistently managed across cloud and edge deployments.
• Partner with Architecture and Engineering teams to design scalable platform capabilities supporting current and future product requirements.
• Drive automation of provisioning, configuration management, environment management, and operational processes.
• Establish standards for Kubernetes, container orchestration, artifact management, and application deployment across distributed environments.

• Partner with Security and Compliance teams to integrate security throughout the software development and deployment lifecycle.
• Ensure CI/CD pipelines incorporate security controls including SAST, DAST, container scanning, vulnerability management, SBOM generation, and software supply-chain security.
• Establish automated compliance validation, policy-as-code, and governance controls supporting NERC CIP, SOC 2, NIST, IEC 62443, and other applicable critical infrastructure standards.
• Implement and govern secure practices for secrets management, certificate management and rotation, identity and access management, and zero-trust architectures.
• Ensure Dev Ops processes provide appropriate traceability, auditability, segregation of…