DevOps Team Leader

About ControlUp

With more than 2,000 active customers, ControlUp is a leading Digital Employee eXperience improvement platform that offers an integrated monitoring, optimization, security, and compliance solution, transforming the way IT teams manage their environments and troubleshoot issues. Our solutions provide IT professionals with deep visibility and actionable insights, empowering them to proactively enhance end-user experiences while saving hundreds of thousands of dollars and valuable time for millions of active users.

About The Role

We are looking for a motivated DevOps Manager to lead our next generation Platform Engineering team. Your mission will be to design and deliver a cutting-edge self-service portal, enabling developers to consume infrastructure and application services with a single click. You will leverage tools like Backstage, Crossplane, and similar platforms to create a unified developer experience. You will empower our dev teams through automated CI/CD pipelines and on-demand environments.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor the Platform Engineering team, fostering innovation and learning
• Design and deliver a developer-facing self-service portal for seamless service consumption
• Architect, build, and maintain robust CI/CD processes
• Enable on-demand, scalable test and production environments
• Collaborate with development, security, and IT teams to continuously improve the developer experience
• Drive automation and standardization across our infrastructure
  
  

• 5+ years of hands-on DevOps experience (2+ years in a similar leadership or management role)
• Strong background in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Practical experience with Kubernetes and Argo (Argo Workflows, Argo CD)
• Proven experience building self-service or developer platforms
• Hands-on expertise with CI/CD tools and processes
• Experience with infrastructure as code and automated environment provisioning
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills