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Manager, Azure Platform & DevOps Engineering

Location(s):

Atlanta: 2300 Windy Ridge Pkwy SE, Suite750, Atlanta, GA 30339

La Vista:12325 Port Grace Blvd, La Vista, NE 68128

Oakdale: 7755 3rd St. N, Oakdale, MN 55128

Scottsdale: 18700 N Hayden Rd, Suite 255, Scottsdale, AZ 85255

St. Petersburg: 877 Executive Center Dr. W, Suite 300, St. Petersburg, FL 33702

Osaic has returned to the office on a hybrid schedule requiring a minimum of 4 days weekly in the office. Applicants should be located at one of our hubs listed above and must be willing to work this schedule.

Role Type: Full-time, Non-Exempt

Salary: $120,000 - 130,000 per year + annual performance-based bonus

Actual compensation offered will be determined individually, based on a number of job-related factors, including location, skills, licensure, experience, and education.

Our competitive compensation is just one component of Osaic's total compensation package. Additional benefits include health, vision, dental insurance, 401k, paid time away, volunteer days and much more. To view more details of what you can look forward to, visit our careers page:Osaic Benefits.

Summary:

The Manager, Azure Platform & DevOps Engineering role leads a combined team of engineers responsible for our Azure cloud infrastructure and CI/CD delivery pipelines. This is a people-leadership role: the Manager owns team performance, hiring, career development, and prioritization for approximately nine engineers, while setting technical direction, standards, and governance for both DevOps and Azure platform functions. The role is primarily managerial (roughly 90%), with limited hands-on involvement reserved for architecture review, technical escalations, and high-stakes decisions.

Education Requirements:

Bachelor's degree preferred, high school diploma (or equivalent) in combination with significant experience will be considered in lieu of degree. Minimum of high school diploma or equivalent is required.

Responsibilities:

What This Role Will Lead:

• The build-out and continued maturity of a combined DevOps and Azure Platform Engineering team.
• Standardization of CI/CD and platform practices across technology stacks and application teams.
• Talent development and succession planning within the team.
• Cross-functional collaboration to accelerate delivery while strengthening platform reliability and security.

Team & People Leadership

• Manage, coach, and develop a team of approximately nine engineers spanning DevOps Engineering and Azure Platform Engineering disciplines.
• Own hiring, performance management, career growth planning, and workload distribution across the team.
• Set team structure and role clarity, including how DevOps and Azure Platform responsibilities are divided and coordinated within the group.
• Establish team goals, OKRs, and success metrics; report on team performance and delivery to senior leadership.
• Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and cross-training between DevOps and platform engineering skill sets.

DevOps Strategy & Governance

• Define and evolve DevOps standards, CI/CD best practices, governance frameworks, and deployment workflows across .NET, Java, and microservices applications.
• Direct the team's use of Azure DevOps Pipelines (YAML and classic), Repos, Artifacts, and Boards to standardize and scale delivery.
• Drive adoption of Infrastructure-as-Code and cloud-native delivery patterns across the organization.
• Partner with Architecture, Development, QA, and Cloud Engineering leadership to streamline software delivery and reduce release friction.

Azure Platform Engineering Oversight

• Set direction for the team's management of core Azure services, including App Services, VMs, AKS, ACR, Storage, Networking, and Key Vault.
• Guide decisions on cost optimization, scalability, reliability, and security posture across the Azure environment.
• Oversee platform capacity planning, patch and update strategy, and lifecycle management for Azure infrastructure.
• Ensure monitoring, logging, and alerting (App Insights, Log Analytics, Azure Monitor) provide the team with proactive visibility into platform health.

Security, Risk & Compliance

• Ensure DevSecOps practices are embedded in pipelines, including secrets management, secure build processes, and image/container scanning.
• Maintain alignment with regulatory requirements applicable to a financial services environment, including audit and recordkeeping obligations.
• Oversee role-based access control, identity governance, and policy enforcement across DevOps tooling and Azure resources.
• Ensure the team's practices support SOC/SEC/FINRA audit readiness and internal risk requirements.

Cross-Functional & Vendor Management

• Represent the DevOps and Azure Platform functions in cross-departmental planning, budgeting, and roadmap discussions.
• Manage relationships with relevant technology vendors and contractors supporting DevOps tooling or Azure infrastructure.
• Partner with other engineering managers and directors to align platform strategy with broader technology and business goals.

Basic Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud/Platform Engineering, or Build/Release Engineering, including prior people-management or team-lead experience.
• Proven experience managing or leading a technical team, including hiring, performance management, and career development.
• Strong working knowledge of Azure DevOps Repos, Pipelines, Artifacts, and Boards.
• Hands-on background with Azure infrastructure and platform services (compute, networking, storage, identity, PaaS).
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (AKS or similar).
• Understanding of .NET and/or Java build and deployment workflows.
• Working knowledge of scripting/automation languages (PowerShell, Bash, YAML) sufficient to guide and review team output.
• Experience implementing or overseeing monitoring/observability frameworks.
• Excellent communication, prioritization, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience managing teams that support both application delivery (DevOps) and infrastructure/platform engineering.
• Familiarity with GitOps practices (Flux, Argo CD) or broader SRE methodology.
• Certifications such as Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Azure Solutions Architect, or similar.
• Experience working in a regulated industry, particularly financial services (FINRA/SEC).

Success Metrics:

Delivery & Platform Performance

• Deployment frequency and change failure rate across CI/CD pipelines (standard DevOps health metrics - DORA-aligned)
• Mean time to recovery (MTTR) for platform/pipeline incidents
• % of infrastructure managed as code vs. manually configured
• Azure cost trend relative to workload growth (cost optimization without sacrificing reliability)

Governance & Compliance

• Audit findings related to DevOps/Azure platform controls (target: zero or trending down)
• % of pipelines with security/secrets scanning enforced
• Time to remediate critical vulnerabilities in platform or pipeline tooling

Cross-Functional

• Stakeholder satisfaction (Development, QA, Architecture) with delivery turnaround, gathered via periodic survey or informal feedback
• On-time delivery rate for major platform initiatives (e.g., migrations, tooling rollouts) against committed timelines