Director, DevSecOps

No Relocation Assistance Offered
# 153674 - Piscataway, New Jersey, United States

Who We Are
Colgate-Palmolive Company is a caring, innovative growth company that is reimagining a healthier future for all people, their pets and our planet. Focused on Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition, we sell our products in more than 200 countries and territories under brands such as Colgate, Palmolive, elmex, hello, meridol, Sorriso, Tom’s of Maine, EltaMD, Filorga, Irish Spring, PCA SKIN, Protex, Sanex, Softsoap, Speed Stick, Ajax, Axion, Fabuloso, Soupline and Suavitel, as well as Hill’s Pet Nutrition.

We are recognized for our leadership and innovation in promoting sustainability and community wellbeing, including our achievements in decreasing plastic waste and promoting recyclability, saving water, conserving natural resources and improving children’s oral health.

If you want to work for a company that lives by their values, then give your career a reason to smile and join our global team!
 

We are searching for a Director, DevSecOps to join our Digital & Direct Commerce applications group. In this role, you will lead a dynamic team of technologists committed to delivering innovative solutions across our diverse portfolio of brands. You will define DevOps and Automated testing strategies that guarantee the performance, security, scalability and maintainability of our solutions. You will facilitate agile feature development cycles and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our commerce landscape. 

The ideal candidate is a quick learner who has strong interpersonal skills, a passion for process improvement and the ability to balance progress over perfection. With a deep understanding of software development best practices and cybersecurity, you’ll be the driving force behind architecting and delivering robust CI/CD pipelines across both simple and complex platforms. You’ll partner with our engineering teams, product managers and application management teams to translate complex technical concepts and ensure common understanding of priorities, requirements, and the efficient management of DevOps processes and solutions.

If you're ready to lead a team that thrives on innovation, fosters collaboration, and pushes the boundaries of what's possible in the digital world, we want to hear from you. Join us on this exciting journey as we redefine the future of technology and security in the Digital & Direct Commerce space!
 
What you will do

• Design and manage the development and maintenance of efficient DevOps processes and technologies that can be scaled across teams and applications
• Partner with Development, Security & Architecture teams to ensure DevOps strategies are implemented within required timeframes, while delivering performance & reliability at scale
• Participate in architecture design and implementation of infrastructure monitoring, security, and scaling solutions
• Champion design and improvement reviews, including identifying and remediating existing technical debt
• Identify and develop improvements for test coverage of new and existing code bases
• Participate in vendor evaluation & selection for key initiatives related to DevOps solution assessments

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or similar degree
• At least 10 years previous experience in a DevOps or Release Engineer role working closely with Software Engineers
• Hands-on experience with the following technologies and processes
  • Cloud infrastructure and services (GCP, AWS, Azure, etc.)
  • Test-driven development methodologies 
  • Security-related infrastructure best practice and application security
  • Container-based frameworks (Kubernetes/Docker)
  • Python, Bash, and yaml
  • Pipelines at scale (Github Actions, Circle CI, or Travis)
  • Administration of code versioning tools (Git, Bitbucket)
• Familiarity with infrastructure deployments using Infrastructure as Code tools (such as Terraform and Ansible)

 
Required Competencies

• Strong written and verbal communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to express sophisticated technical concepts in business terms and translate business needs into technical specifications

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven capability of leading technical projects through an agile methodology
• Proficient in the use of payment gateways (Stripe, Paymetric, Adyen, Moneris, etc.)
• History of using user-centric design and applying User Experience concepts
• Familiarity with data privacy concepts (GDPR, PCI, HIPAA), threat modeling, and other advanced security methodologies<