Overview
Role DescriptionUST’s DevOps Practice is seeking a highly accomplished DevOps & Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Technical Manager to lead large-scale DevOps and SRE transformation programs for enterprise clients. This role blends technical leadership, program governance, financial management, and client engagement, and is ideal for a leader who can drive outcomes across delivery, innovation, and pre-sales.
The successful candidate will bring deep expertise in DevOps and SRE principles, a strong track record in managing complex transformation programs, and the ability to partner with clients, sales, and delivery teams to create measurable business value.
Key Responsibilities
Program Leadership & Delivery
- Lead the end-to-end planning, execution, and delivery of DevOps and SRE transformation programs for enterprise customers.
- Define program objectives, milestones, success metrics, and governance models in collaboration with client and internal stakeholders.
- Ensure program delivery aligns with organizational goals, contractual commitments, and budgetary constraints.
- Identify program risks, dependencies, and constraints; proactively design and execute mitigation strategies.
- Track program performance, KPIs, and outcomes, providing regular executive-level updates on progress, risks, and opportunities.
- Provide technical direction and strategic guidance to DevOps and SRE teams, ensuring adherence to industry best practices and UST standards.
- Drive optimization of software development, deployment, and operations workflows using automation, CI/CD, and cloud-native approaches.
- Champion SRE practices including observability, reliability engineering, incident management, and continuous improvement.
- Promote innovation through adoption of emerging DevOps and SRE tools, platforms, and methodologies.
- Own program financials, including budgeting, cost control, forecasting, and margin improvement initiatives.
- Foster strong collaboration and transparency across cross-functional teams, ensuring accountability and high performance.
- Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and internal leadership.
- Partner with sales and solutioning teams to understand client needs and design tailored DevOps and SRE solutions.
- Participate in client presentations, proposals, and technical demonstrations, articulating the business value of UST’s offerings.
- Support RFP/RFI responses, including solution architecture, effort estimation, and delivery planning.
- Engage with prospective clients to assess transformation readiness and provide consultative guidance on DevOps and SRE journeys.
- Ensure alignment between client expectations, solution design, and delivery capabilities.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related technical discipline.
- 15+ years of overall IT experience, with 5+ years in a managerial or program leadership role.
- Proven success in managing large-scale DevOps and SRE transformation programs in enterprise environments.
- Strong expertise in program management, including planning, execution, risk management, and financial governance.
- Hands-on understanding of Agile delivery models (Agile, Scrum, Kanban).
- Deep knowledge of DevOps practices and tools, including CI/CD pipelines, automation, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud platforms.
- Solid understanding of SRE principles, including monitoring, incident response, SLAs/SLOs, and reliability engineering.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at executive levels.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with a results-oriented mindset.
- Relevant certifications such as PMP, PgMP, ITIL, Agile/Scrum, or technical certifications are highly desirable.
- Prior experience in pre-sales, solution architecture, or consulting roles within the IT services industry is a strong advantage.
- Ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and support decision-making during sales cycles.
Cloud Infrastructure,Team Management,Devops Tools,Pre-Sales,Pre Sales