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Senior DevOps Lead / Manager – hybrid

Columbus, Ohio

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Posted 12/22/2025

Job Description

OUR GOAL: 
Treat our consultants and clients the way we would like others to treat us!
 
Interested in joining our team? Check out the opportunity below and apply today!
  
We’re seeking a senior, hands-on DevOps leader (6-10 years of experience) who can quickly assess our client’s current state, set clear direction, and execute alongside the team, while leveling up DevOps capabilities and removing operational burden from Engineering. We need a DevOps leader who owns deployment clarity, not gatekeeps it, someone who brings structure, transparency, and shared understanding to how we build, deploy, and operate our systems.
 
The Role:

  • This person has operated at both a strategic and execution level in a small to mid-sized company and is trusted to set technical direction, make platform and infrastructure decisions, and guide the team on what to do and why
  • This is a hands-on lead or manager role, working directly with one (and potentially two) DevOps engineers, and partnering closely with the Engineering Manager. The goal is to remove operational burden from Engineering while improving clarity, reliability, and scalability across our systems.
  • This role leads by doing, not just directing.

 
What You’ll Actually Do
Ownership & Execution

  • Own and execute the deployment process end-to-end, making it repeatable, teachable, and transparent, while executing deployments, troubleshooting, and on-call rotation
  • Own day-to-day DevOps operations, including infrastructure management, monitoring, logging, autoscaling, security posture, patching, and maintenance to ensure systems are reliable and well understood

Assessment & Strategy

  • Audit the current state: identify what is truly opaque vs. what just feels risky
  • Define a practical, scalable DevOps strategy
  • Establish clear patterns so new projects follow known paths

Modernization & Scalability

  • Work with existing team and contractor to turn vision into execution
  • Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation with clear failure signals, diagnostics, and recovery paths when automation breaks
  • Own and guide future scalability of infrastructure, databases, and system architecture
  • Help modularize Traverse by understanding how components fit together and what that requires

Teaching & Enablement

  • Pair with developers during deployments to build shared understanding and confidence
  • Help engineers understand how to modify deployments, not just run them
  • Document with developers in mind, explaining both how and why
  • Build a culture where DevOps knowledge is shared, not siloed

 
What Success Looks Like
In the First 30 Days

  • Deliver a documented assessment of the current DevOps state
  • Produce and own a clear, prioritized DevOps roadmap for the first six months
  • Start hands-on execution with the team against that strategy

In the First 6 months

  • Deliver reliable, documented, and repeatable deployment processes
  • Enable two additional engineers to independently execute and modify deployments
  • Normalize on-call operations with predictable, supportable coverage
  • Ensure failures are diagnosable with clear root-cause visibility
  • Transition DevOps knowledge from individual-dependent to standardized and shared

 
Who Will Succeed in This Role
You are someone who:

  • Is deeply hands-on but thinks strategically
  • Can confidently say “here’s what we should do, and here’s why”
  • Enjoys teaching and raising the technical confidence of others
  • Has operated in environments where structure needed to be built, not inherited
  • Values clarity, ownership, and practical solutions over complexity

 
Education & Experience Requirements

  • Advanced programming experience (Python, Go, Ruby, etc.)
  • Proficiency with Linux/Unix administration, scripting, and programming (bash, Python, Ruby, etc.)
  • Deep expertise with core DevOps technologies such as Docker, Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation
  • Advanced proficiency with configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.)
  • Strong experience with database administration
  • Strong troubleshooting and monitoring skills for Linux operating systems
  • Hands-on experience implementing monitoring and log aggregation platforms (ELK, Graylog, Graphite, Prometheus, etc.)
  • Experience automating the provisioning, deployment, and scaling of resources and applications using CI/CD workflows
  • Experience with testing automation tools and frameworks
  • Experience deploying and managing web and application servers, load balancers, queues, and caches; proven ability to scale and build resiliency into web application architectures. Experience deploying a 12 Factor App is a plus
  • Proficiency with source control systems and IaC to create scriptable, repeatable processes
  • AWS experience is a plus, as well as familiarity with EC2, S3, Route53, VPC, IAM, and EKS
  • Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Reference: 1045744
  
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every qualification. At Revel IT, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be the right candidate for this or our other open roles! 

  
Revel IT is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Revel IT does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

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