Job Summary:
Plexus Worldwide is a renowned direct-selling company headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, known for its innovative dietary supplements and commitment to health and wellness. They are seeking a hands-on technical leader for the Manager, DevOps Engineering role, responsible for designing and operating scalable cloud-native systems while leading a team of engineers to improve system resilience and accelerate delivery.
Responsibilities:
• Implement a self-service DevOps platform that allows developers to deploy, test, and monitor applications independently.
• Directly contribute to the design and implementation of core infrastructure, including Kubernetes (EKS), CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code.
• Deliver measurable improvements in deployment frequency, system uptime, and mean time to recovery (MTTR).
• Ensure successful migration and ownership of cloud infrastructure (e.g., EKS) from external vendors to internal teams.
• Drive continuous delivery adoption, including infrastructure-as-code, automated release orchestration, and real-time performance feedback loops.
• Enhance system observability and resilience by leveraging advanced monitoring tools (e.g., New Relic, Dynatrace) and automated alerting for production systems.
• Foster strong cross-functional collaboration with Development, QA, Product, and Security teams to align on delivery goals and operational excellence.
• Lead the end-to-end design and continuous improvement of DevOps and SRE practices.
• Own CI/CD systems, cloud-native infrastructure, and deployment strategies across environments.
• Actively design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure (AWS, EKS, networking, IAM).
• Write and maintain infrastructure as code (Terraform/CloudFormation).
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and performance bottlenecks.
• Mentor engineers through pairing, code reviews, and hands-on guidance.
• Allocate capacity between support, project work, automation initiatives, and incident response.
• Continue current adoption of infrastructure as code (Terraform/CloudFormation) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Act as a key partner for Development, QA, and Security teams to streamline release cycles and eliminate delivery bottlenecks.
• Participate in technical architecture reviews and post-mortems to ensure the production readiness of all systems.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
• 5+ years in DevOps or SRE roles, with 3+ years of direct people leadership.
• Mastery of cloud platforms (preferably AWS) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Experience with infrastructure tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Skilled in CI/CD systems (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI) and monitoring tools (New Relic, Dynatrace).
• Strong knowledge of configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, or Chef).
• Experience with API Gateway platforms (AWS API Gateway, Apigee).
• Proven ability to use telemetry (logs, traces, metrics) to diagnose and improve system performance.
• Deep understanding of modern deployment strategies, including canary, blue/green, and rolling deployments.
• Willingness to participate in off-hours support rotations, including evenings, weekends, and holidays when needed.
• Committed to continuous improvement, ethical delivery, and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships.
Company:
Plexus Worldwide offers science-based health and wellness products that enable people to improve their lives and well-being. Founded in 2008, the company is headquartered in Scottsdale, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.