DevOps Manager
Description
Who are we?
Checkmarx is the AI-powered application security leader helping the world’s most security- conscious enterprises secure the software that powers modern life. For more than two decades, our unified platform and services have helped organizations protect human- and AI - generated code from the first line through runtime, reducing risk across applications, cloud, and the software supply chain without slowing innovation.
We’re trusted by 1,600+ customers in 70+ countries, including some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world. Guided by research-led innovation and a developer-first mindset, we help every developer, security team, and enterprise build software that is risk-freeby design.
What are we looking for?
Join our mission to build and scale the engineering platform behind a leading SaaS cybersecurity solution trusted by enterprises worldwide.
We are looking for a passionate DevOps Group Lead. You'll lead a strategic engineering organization responsible for the platforms, infrastructure, and automation that power our software delivery lifecycle. You'll manage four Team Leaders and their engineering teams, driving innovation across CI/CD, Kubernetes, AWS, developer platforms, and cloud operations while enabling fast, secure, and reliable software delivery.
This is a leadership role for someone who combines strong technical expertise with exceptional people leadership and a passion for building high-performing engineering organizations.
How will you make an impact?
- Lead, mentor, and develop 3 Team Leaders and their engineering teams, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning.
- Define and execute the DevOps and Platform Engineering strategy supporting a large-scale SaaS cybersecurity platform.
- Own the architecture, scalability, availability, security, and operational excellence of our cloud infrastructure and engineering platforms.
- Drive the evolution of modern CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes platforms, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and developer self-service capabilities.
- Partner closely with Engineering, Product, Security, Architecture, and R&D leadership to accelerate software delivery while maintaining the highest standards of security and reliability.
- Lead cloud-native initiatives with a strong focus on AWS, Kubernetes, automation, and platform standardization.
- Establish engineering metrics, operational KPIs, SLOs, and continuous improvement initiatives across the organization.
- Champion DevSecOps best practices and embed security into every stage of the software delivery lifecycle.
- Lead organizational planning, hiring, budgeting, prioritization, and execution while supporting the growth and development of future engineering leaders
What is needed to succeed?
Required qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, or Site Reliability Engineering.
- 3+ years of experience managing multiple engineering teams or Team Leads.
- Proven experience leading engineering organizations supporting large-scale SaaS products.
- Deep expertise with AWS (required), including designing, operating, and optimizing production cloud environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies.
- Extensive experience designing and operating enterprise-grade CI/CD platforms using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo CD, GitLab CI, or similar technologies.
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent tools.
- Experience building highly available, secure, and scalable production platforms.
- Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, logging, incident management, and platform reliability.
- Experience implementing DevSecOps practices and cloud security best practices.
- Strong scripting or programming skills (Python, Go, Bash, or similar).
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and organizational leadership skills.
- A people-first leader with a passion for coaching leaders, empowering teams, and building a culture of engineering excellence.
Desired qualifications:
- Experience in the cybersecurity industry or building platforms for security-focused SaaS products.
- Experience with GitOps and Argo CD.
- Knowledge of service mesh technologies such as Istio.
- Experience with multi-cloud environments.
- Familiarity with FinOps and cloud cost optimization.
- Experience leading globally distributed engineering organizations.