DevOps Project Manager

Lead the end-to-end planning and delivery of complex DevOps initiatives, from mobilization and scope definition through implementation, rollout, stabilization, and handoff.

Create and maintain an integrated delivery plan covering:

Milestones and timelines

Testing and approvals

Communications

Rollout activities

Operational readiness

Identify and manage the critical path , ensuring dependencies and deliverables remain aligned with overall project objectives.

Cross-Functional Coordination Coordinate delivery across one or more DevOps squads and enterprise partner teams, including:

Infrastructure

Cloud

Security

ServiceNow

Application teams

Data teams

Platform teams

Quality Engineering

Production Support

Work closely with Product Owners, Technical Leads, Architects, Engineers, Quality Engineers, Security teams, and business/technology stakeholders to clarify:

Business and technical outcomes

Roles and responsibilities

Delivery sequencing

Acceptance criteria

Dependencies and constraints

Governance & Delivery Management Establish appropriate governance structures, meeting cadences, decision-making paths, delivery controls, and escalation mechanisms .

Manage and maintain:

Scope

Schedule

Resources

Risks

Issues

Assumptions

Decisions

Changes

Ensure ownership, accountability, and target dates remain clearly defined.

Drive action closure and proactively address delivery gaps, conflicting priorities, resource constraints, access issues, environment blockers, data-quality concerns, and integration dependencies.

Testing, Release & Operational Readiness Coordinate test planning, user acceptance testing, production-readiness reviews, implementation activities, and post-implementation validation .

Manage required evidence, approvals, and sign-offs for releases and implementations.

Coordinate releases across Development, Stage, and Production environments .

Ensure operational ownership, support processes, documentation, and handoff activities are completed successfully.

Stakeholder Management & Communication Prepare concise, decision-focused status reports for program and DevOps leadership covering:

Upcoming milestones

Delivery forecast

Risks and issues

Decisions required

Recovery actions

Coordinate stakeholder communications, readiness activities, demonstrations, information sessions, support planning, and adoption activities.

Translate complex technical delivery details into clear business impacts, risks, and decision points .

Ensure deliverables, processes, decisions, and operational ownership are properly documented and transitioned to the appropriate teams.

Apply lessons learned and continuous-improvement practices to:

Reduce manual effort

Reduce recurring operational risks

What You Need to Succeed Project & Delivery Management Strong project-management experience delivering complex technology initiatives involving multiple squads, platforms, and enterprise partner teams.

Demonstrated experience working on initiatives involving:

DevOps

CI/CD

Security controls

Source-code management

Ability to build integrated plans, identify the true critical path , manage interdependent deliverables, and hold multiple teams accountable for commitments.

DevOps & Software Delivery Knowledge Practical understanding of the software development and delivery lifecycle .

Understanding of the relationship between:

Source-code repositories

Build pipelines

Security scanning

Deployment orchestration

Approvals

Production support

Ability to work effectively with both technical specialists and business stakeholders.

Excellent risk, issue, dependency, and change-management skills.

Sound judgment regarding when to:

Resolve issues independently

Engage stakeholders

Seek leadership decisions

Strong ability to proactively identify blockers and drive them to resolution.

Leadership & Communication Excellent facilitation, written communication, organization, and follow-through.

Confidence working with senior leaders, technical specialists, and cross-functional teams .

Ability to operate effectively in a matrixed environment where delivery depends on teams that may not report directly to the Project Manager.

Self-directed, pragmatic, and outcome-focused.

Comfortable bringing structure and clarity to ambiguous or evolving initiatives.

Required Experience DevOps Tools & Platforms Experience with standard DevOps tools, practices, and Enterprise Pipeline environments is strongly preferred.

Working knowledge of tools and platforms such as:

Bitbucket / GitHub

Jenkins

CDD

Jira

Confluence

ServiceNow

Checkmarx One

Kosli

Grafana

Tableau

Infrastructure and deployment technologies

Security & Compliance Experience coordinating security-control implementation and related delivery activities.

Experience with:

Vulnerability-management workflows

Security exceptions

Compliance evidence

Release gating

Production-readiness activities

Security approvals and controls

Data & Application Management Experience working with application inventories and application portfolio identifiers.

Familiarity with:

Repository metadata

Database updates

ETL processes

Data-quality remediation

Release & Environment Management Experience supporting releases across Dev, Stage, and Production environments.

Experience coordinating:

Technical testing

Business validation

Implementation

Post-implementation verification

Experience managing dependencies and readiness across multiple technical teams.

Project Management & Agile Tools Experience with Jira and/or Planview AgilePlace .

Project-management certification or formal Agile delivery training is an asset; however, demonstrated delivery experience is more important than certification alone.

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