Executive Director - Central Head of DevSecOps

About the role

The Executive Director - Central Head of DevSecOps oversees the standards, tooling, and organizations globally, providing infrastructure, application security, administration, configuration, troubleshooting, automation, and delivery lifecycle of solutions within Sands. The DevSecOps functions globally deploy and support cloud and on-premises infrastructure and services to meet business or IT initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Leadership of DevSecOps globally
• Oversight of teams of DevOps and DevSecOps professionals and outsourced partners in all Sands' subsidiaries
• Setting and executing strategy for platform engineering, DevOps, and DevSecOps
• DevSecOps resourcing for subsidiaries demand
• Driving the DevSecOps agenda globally, setting objectives, and continuously improving execution across all activities
• Developing a deep understanding of the products and setting strategic tooling roadmap for each subsidiary
• Defining KPIs, metrics to measure DevSecOps effectiveness and performance
• Ensuring all team members and vendor partners understand performance expectations and manage delivery accordingly
• Providing strategic direction and oversight for the execution of quality and testing cloud systems
• Making sure the team develops detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases
• Manging the portfolio of prioritized and planned testing activities
• Securing, monitoring, and maintaining infrastructure for in-house developed applications
• Championing collaboration across IT and business functions
• Independently contributing to team objectives
• Mentoring, supporting, and cross-training team members
• Contributing suggestions for new products, services, and processes to ensure best-in-class customer service
• Contributing to self-service knowledgebase, operational procedures, and documents
• Consistently demonstrating professionalism in all interactions
• Executing business communication on system planned maintenance, incident status notifications, and other customer communications
• Designing solutions to complex technical issues and working with other technology or cyber security experts, including architects and vendors
• Providing and driving success of frameworks to enable any technical problems discovered by DevOps, development, or testers and any internal clients to be resolved
• Providing deep subject matter expertise across multiple disciplines including IT infrastructure, security, business application, and system integration
• Performing job duties in a safe manner
• Attending work as scheduled on a consistent and regular basis
• Performing other related duties as assigned

Requirements

• At least 21 years of age
• Proof of authorization to work in the United States
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline required
• Advanced degree in technology or engineering is a plus
• 10+ years proven experience of leading distributed DevOps and DevSecOps groups with expertise in developments within public cloud providers, or SaaS solutions and supporting software development in agile environments
• Experience in cloud-based containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Knowledge of third-party library security scanning, static code scanning, code hygiene, dynamic code scanning, container security, AWS EKS, Azure AKS, Helm, IAM, cloud trail, guard duty, WAF, SDLC practices, and basic scripting skills
• Experience with common programming and scripting languages, such as Golang, Ruby, C/C++, C#, Python, JavaScript, Bash
• Laten desire and/or curiosity in related domains like software development, front-end engineering, security, or project management
• Able to multi-task and handle various types of requests from different people/areas
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Effective written and verbal communication skills in English