Senior Manager DevOps

Job Title:

Senior Manager DevOps

About Skyhigh Security:

Skyhigh Security is a dynamic, fast-paced, cloud company that is a leader in the security industry.  Our mission is to protect the world’s data, and because of this, we live and breathe security. We value learning at our core, underpinned by openness and transparency. 

Since 2011, organizations have trusted us to provide them with a complete, market-leading security platform built on a modern cloud stack. Our industry-leading suite of products radically simplifies data security through easy-to-use, cloud-based, Zero Trust solutions that are managed in a single dashboard, powered by hundreds of employees across the world. With offices in Santa Clara, Aylesbury, Paderborn, Bengaluru, Sydney, Tokyo and more, our employees are the heart and soul of our company. 

Skyhigh Security Is more than a company; here, when you invest your career with us, we commit to investing in you. We embrace a hybrid work model, creating the flexibility and freedom you need from your work environment to reach your potential. From our employee recognition program, to our ‘Blast Talks' learning series, and team celebrations (we love to have fun!), we strive to be an interactive and engaging place where you can be your authentic self. 

We are on these too! Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter@SkyhighSecurity.

Role Overview:

We are looking for a hands-on and strategic Senior Manager, DevOps to lead our DevOps function across hybrid cloud environments. You will be responsible for managing and evolving our CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and deployment strategies to ensure secure, fast, and reliable product releases. This role requires a strong leader with technical depth, a bias for automation, and a passion for operational excellence in a cloud-native and security-first environment.

About the role:

• You will plan, provide resources for and direct activities in engineering function to meet schedules, standards, and cost. 

• You will cultivate and reinforce appropriate group values, norms and behaviors. 

• You will identify and analyze problems, plan tasks and solutions. 

• You will provide guidance on employee development, performance, and productivity issues. 

• You will plan and schedule daily tasks, use judgement on a variety of problems requiring deviation from standard practices. Inadequacies and erroneous decisions would cause moderate inconvenience and expense.

• You will coordinate activities with Product Management, Support and Engineering.

• You will scope and monitor infrastructure performance, capacity and cost. 

• You will cooperate with, select and supervise external partners.

• You will drive technical innovation. 

Key Responsibilities

• Leadership & Team Management

• Lead and mentor a high-performing DevOps team.

• Define team goals, measure success, and foster a culture of continuous improvement and accountability.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, Security, SRE, QA, and Product teams.

Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

• Manage and optimize hybrid cloud infrastructure (AWS, OCI, on-prem).

• Lead infrastructure-as-code (IaC) initiatives using tools like Terraform and CloudFormation.

• Ensure scalable, secure, and compliant cloud operations.
  CI/CD & Release Engineering

• Oversee and improve CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, Gitlabs,  Argo CD, or similar.

• Ensure high-velocity, low-risk product deployments through automated testing, canary releases, blue/green deployments, etc.

• Collaborate with security teams to embed DevSecOps practices in the release process.

• Automation & Tooling

• Drive adoption of automation in infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment.

• Evaluate and implement tooling to increase productivity and system reliability.

• Monitoring, Logging & Incident Management

• Oversee implementation of observabi