DevOps and DBA Engineer - Assistant Vice President
Listed on 2026-07-07
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IT/Tech
Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, SRE/Site Reliability, Systems Engineer
About the Role
iCapitalis looking to hire a Dev Ops and DBA Engineering Manager to join the Annuities Platform team. This role is responsible for leading the strategy, design, and execution of Dev Ops practices and database platform operations supporting enterprise SaaS solutions. This role owns CI/CD pipelines and SQL Server database systems to ensure high availability, scalability, performance, and security across production and non-production environments.
As a Technical Manager, this position not only leads and develops a team of Dev Ops Engineers and Database Administrators but is also the technical SME and expected to maintain databases and manage the deployment pipelines. This individual reports to the Director of Enterprise Technology and partners closely with the Engineering, Architecture, Security, and Product teams, and is accountable for the reliability, automation, and operational excellence of the platforms.
- Lead and develop a high-performing team of Dev Ops Engineers and Database Administrators, including hiring, performance management, mentoring, and career development.
- Define and execute the Dev Ops and DBA roadmap aligned to product and platform strategy.
- Own the design, reliability, and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines (Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions) supporting automated build, test, release, and rollback for all (Hexure now part of iCapital) SaaS products.
- Own SQL Server database operations across production and non-production environments, including performance tuning, indexing, capacity planning, patching cadence, backup and recovery (RTO/RPO), and always on high-availability and disaster recovery.
- Participate in incident response for infrastructure and database events, including on-call rotation, post-incident reviews, and corrective-action follow-through.
- Partner with the Security team to embed Dev Sec Ops practices, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, dependency hygiene, and compliance with SOC 2 and other applicable frameworks.
- Partner with the Senior Cloud Engineers and Director to manage cloud spend and Fin Ops practices in Azure; track utilization, right-size workloads, and report cost trends to leadership.
- Establish and maintain operational documentation, change-management discipline, and audit-ready evidence for internal and external reviews.
- Collaborate with the Architecture, Engineering, Product, and Client Service team to plan releases, capacity, and platform improvements that support business growth.
- Continuously improve automation, observability, and self-service capabilities to reduce toil and accelerate delivery.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering or related field or equivalent experience
- 8+ years Dev Ops cloud SRE or infrastructure engineering supporting PaaS and SaaS platforms
- 2+ years people management experience leading Dev Ops SRE or DBA teams including hiring, performance and career development
- Experience with Microsoft Azure including IaaS, PaaS, networking, Entra Azure SQL
- Deep experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines in Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions or similar across multi-environment SaaS deployments
- Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management at scale
- Strong SQL Server administration including performance tuning, HA/DR, always-on, replication, log shipping, backup and security plus other database models
- Working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, AKS
- Experience with monitoring, logging and alerting using platforms like Dynatrace, Datadog, Azure Monitor, Application Insights
- Experience working within compliance frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001 or similar
- Strong problem‑solving, communication and stakeholder management skills able to translate technical concepts for technical and non‑technical audiences
- Experience supporting SaaS platforms in insurance, financial services or other regulated industries
- Relevant certifications Microsoft Azure solutions architect, Azure Dev Ops engineer, AWS Dev Ops engineer or equivalent
- Scripting and automation experience Power Shell, Python, Bash
- Familiar with Dev Sec Ops practices SAST/DAST, dependency scanning,…
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