Manager, Development Operations - Houston, TX

About the role

The Manager of Development Operations will lead the development team and oversee and coordinate personnel, resources, and processes necessary to deliver new software solutions or upgrade existing products. They will play a key role in the organization's technology modernization efforts, helping evolve existing systems and practices toward scalable, secure, automated, and cloud-aligned architectures.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to technology strategy and planning
• Establish and maintain appropriate procedures and processes
• Provide guidance to the team and ensure they adhere to development standards
• Monitor, evaluate, and ensure the completion of tasks and projects
• Create strategic targets for the team and provide mentoring and training
• Identify skills needed for support and development projects and recruit team members
• Recruit, hire, and manage full-time developers, contractors, and consultants
• Evaluate performance of staff
• Resource allocation on development projects and support
• Ensure properly quality assurance processes
• Solve complex technical challenges
• Enforce DevOps pipeline for projects
• Weekly 1-1s with developers to provide career guidance

Qualifications and Experience

• Demonstrate ability to be a customer facing manager with hands-on technical expertise required to architect and manage a DevOps Team with 6-8 years’ experience in modern software development, architecture, and DevOps
• Experience in agile tooling (Jira, Confluence, etc.), version control systems (Git, SVN, etc.), and deployment strategies that support both iterative and continuous development
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and operations to ensure the scalability and maintainability of cloud native applications
• Extensive experience in developing, deploying, and integrating software solutions
• Working in environments with modern application development stacks, including: Java (backend development), Go (backend development), ReactJS (frontend development), Azure DevOps (CI/CD pipelines, release management, and work tracking)
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, including build automation, testing, and deployment across multiple environments
• Experience working within Kubernetes/AKS containerized and cloud-native environments including application deployment, scaling, and operational support
• Strong ability to coach developers, helping them improve their skills and grow their careers
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong leadership qualities
• Prominent ability to resolve conflict
• Good mentor and coach
• Solid critical-thinking and decision-making skills

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Python (automation, scripting, or data-related workloads)
• Experience with Agile development and release practices
• ITIL familiarity and experience