# Manager DevOps and DBA

**Company:** [Pierce Technology Corp](null/companies/uJUrQDNSFkdZC8yNjwdWW6.md)
**Location:** Colorado Springs, United States
**Workplace:** on site
**Employment type:** Full-time
**Department:** Pierce

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## Description

**DevOps & DBA Leadership:** Lead, hire, and mentor a high-performing team of DevOps Engineers and DBAs, defining strategic roadmaps aligned with core platform and product goals.

**CI/CD & Release Automation:** Own the reliability, design, and continuous improvement of automated CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) for end-to-end SaaS build, test, deployment, and rollback workflows.

**SQL Server Database Operations:** Oversee enterprise SQL Server environments, managing high availability/DR (Always On), performance tuning, capacity planning, patching, and strict RTO/RPO backup strategies.

**DevSecOps, Incident Response & Governance:** Partner with Security to integrate automated scanning, secrets management, and SOC 2 compliance while driving structured incident response, post-mortems, and change-management rigor.

**Cloud FinOps & Operational Efficiency:** Collaborate with Cloud Architecture and leadership to optimize Azure spend and drive automation, observability, and self-service capabilities to eliminate toil.

## Requirements

**Leadership & Experience:** 8+ years across DevOps, Cloud, SRE, and infrastructure engineering supporting PaaS/SaaS environments, with 2+ years managing, hiring, and developing DevOps, SRE, or DBA teams.

**Azure Cloud & Infrastructure as Code:** Deep expertise across Microsoft Azure (IaaS, PaaS, Entra ID, networking, AKS), cloud cost optimization (FinOps), and enterprise-scale IaC and configuration management.

**Database Administration & Migrations:** Advanced SQL Server DBA capabilities (HA/DR, Always On, performance tuning, backups) alongside exposure to database migrations involving Azure SQL MI, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB.

**CI/CD, Automation & DevSecOps:** Extensive hands-on experience building automated CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions), scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash), and embedding DevSecOps controls (SAST/DAST, secrets management, Key Vault).

**Observability, Compliance & Operations:** Strong background in full-stack monitoring (Datadog, Dynatrace, App Insights), SOC 2/ISO compliance in regulated SaaS domains (FinTech/InsurTech), and ITSM workflows (ServiceNow, Jira).