DevOps Lead; m​/f​/d

About The Job

We are looking for a permanent, end-to-end Dev Ops Lead to own Dev Ops strategy and governance for Allianz in a Pocket, Allianz's flagship global mobile app, across the program's layers. You will align practices already emerging across these teams into a single, coherent strategy, combining direct oversight of a core Dev Ops function with cross-team influence, working closely with each team's Principal Dev Ops Engineer to turn program-wide standards into local practice.

In scope: the program's KPI framework and unified dashboards; observability, alerting, capacity planning and infrastructure cost monitoring; CI/CD, Git Ops and environment strategy; tooling standardization; end-to-end incident management; disaster recovery as accountable owner; release, change, security and risk governance — including threat modeling, access lifecycle management and Dev Ops-owned control compliance within Allianz's risk framework (Risk Shield/ARS).

• Dev Ops Strategy, Governance & Tooling Standardization:
  Define and own the end-to-end Dev Ops strategy across teams; standardize tooling choices (CI/CD platforms, IaC, observability stack) and align existing team-level practices into a single program-wide way of working, in partnership with each team's Principal Dev Ops Engineer.
• Security & Risk Governance:
  Own Dev Ops accountability within Allianz's risk and control framework (Risk Shield/ARS) for Dev Ops-owned controls — e.g. test-before-go-live, production access lifecycle (provisioning, periodic access review, revocation), DR testing evidence; coordinate threat modeling exercises for shared platform components with security and engineering teams.
• CI/CD Pipeline & Environment Governance:
  Define program-wide CI/CD standards — pipeline tiering (PR gate/nightly/release candidate), quality gates, deployment strategies — and own the program's environment strategy (dev/test/staging/prod): provisioning standards, parity and lifecycle management across teams.
• Observability, Alerting, Capacity & Cost Monitoring:
  Own program-level observability strategy — monitoring, alert thresholds, escalation paths — plus capacity planning (anticipating scaling needs ahead of peaks and OE rollouts) and infrastructure cost monitoring across teams, surfacing capacity, cost and scaling signals to the Backend Lead and engineering teams, who own remediation actions.
• KPI Framework, Dashboards & SLA Reporting:
  Define and own the program's Dev Ops KPIs (deployment frequency, MTTR, change failure rate, availability, SLO attainment); align dashboards across teams into a consistent end-to-end view; define and track SLAs and report platform health to program leadership.
• Incident Management (E2E):
  Own end-to-end incident management for production issues — triage, severity classification, escalation, cross-team coordination, and post-mortem process — with the direct support of each team's Principal Dev Ops Engineer during active incidents.
• Disaster Recovery — Accountable Owner:
  Own disaster recovery end-to-end: define scope, RTO/RPO targets and test cadence, and coordinate the teams to ensure DR mechanisms are in place and DR tests are executed and passed across layers and, Release & Change Governance defining release and change management standards (deployment windows, rollback strategy, pre/post-deployment checks) applied consistently across all program layers.
• AI-Assisted Dev Ops Practices:
  Champion the adoption of AI-assisted tooling (e.g. Git Hub Copilot, Claude Code) across Dev Ops workflows to improve automation, troubleshooting and incident response efficiency.

• Dev Ops Strategy & Governance Leadership 8+ years in Dev Ops/SRE/Platform Engineering with at least 3 years leading Dev Ops strategy and…