DevOps Manager - Western Digital

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As a DevOps Manager for the Flash Product Engineering team , you will play a crucial role in ensuring the seamless operation for product development and solutions. This role requires a blend of technical expertise, team leadership, and operational management skills to ensure efficient and high-quality delivery of solutions and alignment with organizational goals.

Ideal candidate for this role is expected to be a hands on technical manager, that can assist the team on both technical and strategic initiatives, deep understanding of DevOps practices, passion for fostering a collaborative and efficient development environment and a drive for innovation and improvements.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of a scalable and secure infrastructure to support product and tools developments ensuring high availability and performance.
• Lead efforts to automate repetitive tasks, streamline deployment processes, and implement effective orchestration, leveraging tools such as Ansible, Terraform, and Kubernetes.
• Drive the implementation of robust CI/CD pipelines to facilitate frequent and reliable software releases via GitHub actions 
• Optimize workflows and automate processes to improve development efficiency and reduce deployment times.
• Establish and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to proactively identify and address issues
• Implement and enforce best practices for securing infrastructure and applications
• Foster strong collaboration between development and operations teams, promoting a DevOps culture focused on efficiency, transparency, and continuous improvement.
• Optimize system performance and scalability through continuous analysis and improvement.
• Implement IaC principles to manage and provision infrastructure resources efficiently.
• Collaborate with cloud providers such as AWS for infrastructure automation.
• Document and communicate DevOps processes, best practices, and guidelines.
• Mentor a team of DevOps professionals, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture

REQUIRED:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering,  or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps or related roles, with at least 2 years in a leadership position.
• Strong proficiency in GitHub and GitHub Actions, including experience with managing repositories and setting up CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid understanding of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration tools.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, etc.) and automation tools.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS) and infrastructure as code (Terraform).

SKILLS:

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams.
• Knowledge of security best practices and compliance requirements.
• Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana).

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Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York.  This range may be modified in the future.
• You will be eligible to participate in Western Digital’s Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance.  Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Western Digital’s Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program, employee stock purchase plan, and the Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.