DevOps Manager

Founded in 1986, KPA is a leading provider of Workforce Compliance software and consulting services. We succeed if our clients can send their employees home at night, having not experienced a workplace accident or injury. The combination of software, consulting, and training helps clients identify, remedy, and prevent workplace safety and compliance problems so they can focus on what’s important – their core business.

Help us help keep people safe and businesses working efficiently. Named as one of Built In Colorado’s Best Places to Work for six years in a row, KPA is made up of talented individuals working together for the greater good. We’re here to help our clients build safe, thriving organizations, and we’re looking for people with a common goal to help us do it.

As a member of the Technology team, the Dev Ops Manager assumes a pivotal hands‑on position, responsible for driving deployment automation, managing client‑facing cloud infrastructure, ensuring site reliability, and upholding security standards. The ideal candidate possesses a proven track record of managing teams and projects, automating security protocols, proactively identifying vulnerabilities during development phases, and guaranteeing the security and compliance of applications, systems, and infrastructure.

Leading a team of Site Reliability and Dev Ops Engineers, the Dev Ops Manager will spearhead the establishment of standard operating procedures, surpass service level agreements, and meticulously adhere to change‑management protocols by fostering collaboration and enhancing automation.

• Provide technical guidance and educate team members and coworkers on Dev Ops best practices including continuous integration, continuous delivery, and automated testing
• Develop clear and up‑to‑date documentation of team practices, procedures, and standards
• Lead sprint planning, implementation, standups and demos
• Design, implement, and maintain secure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices
• Monitor and optimize the performance of systems to meet or exceed defined service level agreements (SLAs)
• Design strategies to enhance development delivery
• Proactively plan and manage the capacity of systems to handle current and future workloads
• Collaborate with Development and Data teams to integrate security into the software development lifecycle (SDLC), including design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance phases
• Implement security controls within the build pipeline and tests to identify vulnerabilities, code flaws, and misconfigurations, and manage security tools such as static and dynamic application security testing (SAST/DAST), container security, and vulnerability scanners
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies to ensure systems are secure

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
• Minimum of 3 years in a lead role with multiple direct reports
• 5+ years of experience as a Dev Ops Engineer, ideally coming from a development background, with an emphasis working with Azure and/or AWS
• 2+ years of experience working with logging, SIEM and metrics tools, vulnerability scanners (Nessus, Qualys, Insight
  
  VM, etc.), and code analysis tools (linters, Snyk or similar)
• In depth experience with containers, container orchestration and scheduling, service registration / discovery and monitoring (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Practical experience developing software or meeting operational needs with code and scripting (Power Shell, Bash, Python, Perl, Ruby)
• Knowledge of CI/CD practices and supporting tools (Azure Dev Ops, Octopus, similar)
• Experience with infrastructure automation frameworks (Ansible, Chef, Terraform, or similar)
• Good interpersonal skills and communication with a passion for working with all types of managers, architects, developers, QA, and operations personnel
• Ability to multitask, prioritize, and track time efficiently
• Desire to learn and continually improve self and others through knowledge sharing

• Annual Base Salary Range of 150-170k
• Annual Bonus Opportunity of 15%

• Physical demands described…