Hiring: Director, DevOps Company: Verra Mobility Location: Mesa, AZ Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 10:54:44 Employment Type: Contract / Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, ArgoCD, Azure, Azure DevOps, Bash, CI/CD, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, DAST, Datadog, Docker, EKS, ELK Stack, Feature Flags, FedRAMP, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, GitOps, Grafana, IaC, JavaScript, Jenkins, Kubernetes, LaunchDarkly, Microservices, New Relic, PowerShell, Prometheus, Python, SAST, SCA, SOC 2, Spinnaker, Splunk, Terraform, TypeScript, Vault About the job Experience: •10+ years of progressive engineering experience in DevOps, SRE, or Release Engineering, including 4+ years in a leadership role directly managing senior engineers. Required Skills: •Hands-On Technical Leadership •Lead from the front: design and contribute directly to pipelines, release automation, deployment tooling, and observability instrumentation. Pick up the hard problems alongside the team. •Own the technical direction for CI/CD, release engineering, and SRE practices across AWS, Azure, and on-prem workloads. Make architectural decisions for the delivery pipeline that span environments and product lines. •Personally review designs, pull requests, and significant pipeline or automation changes; raise the technical bar through high-signal feedback and pairing. •Set engineering standards — pipeline-as-code patterns, branching strategies, deployment patterns (blue/green, canary, feature flags), observability instrumentation — and ensure they are adopted in practice, not just documented. •Team Leadership & Direct Management •Directly manage a team of senior DevOps engineers and SREs, including hiring, performance management, growth, and compensation. •Build a small, senior, high-trust team where leadership is shared and engineers operate with autonomy and clear ownership. Qualifications: •Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent professional experience. •Deep, current hands-on experience — you should be able to walk into a terminal, open a PR, and ship today. Recent leadership roles must include direct technical contribution, not just oversight. •Demonstrated experience operating delivery pipelines and production systems at scale across AWS, Azure, and on-premises environments, with a clear understanding of the operational and security trade-offs between them. •Deep expertise in CI/CD platforms, specifically Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions (experience with Jenkins or GitLab CI a plus), including pipeline-as-code authoring, reusable templates, and self-hosted runner management. •Strong working knowledge of container build, registry, and deployment workflows (Docker, ACR, ECR, Harbor) and Kubernetes-based deployments (EKS, AKS, or self-managed). •Solid functional working knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code (Cloud Formation Templates, Terraform etc.) sufficient to collaborate effectively with Cloud Engineering on shared concerns such as deployment targets, networking for pipelines, and identity. •Strong scripting and programming skills in two or more of: Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell, or TypeScript/JavaScript. Comfortable reading and modifying code in any language the team encounters. •Track record of leading production incident response personally and driving measurable improvements to MTTR, change failure rate, and SLO attainment. •Clear, concise written communication. Comfortable engaging with the CTO, executive committee, and external customers, and equally comfortable in a design review or an incident bridge. •Successful completion of the Nlets fingerprinting background assessment. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!