Head of DevOps
Posted 6 Sep 2026
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The original posting with the fluff stripped out
- Management level
- People management
- Employment
- Hybrid
- Contract
- Full-time
No salary listed for this role.
At Semperis, our mission is to be a Force for Good. Starting with being a great place to work. We believe that when people feel valued, supported, and empowered, they do their best work. That’s why we focus on creating an employee experience rooted in purpose, growth, and balance. Semperis has been recognized as one of America’s Fastest-Growing Cybersecurity Companies by the Inc. 5000, a DUNS 100 Top Startup to Work For, and a multi-year Inc. Best Workplace awardee.
Head of DevOps
We're seeking a Head of DevOps to lead our DevOps function, managing a mix of team leads and individual contributors across a global organization. This is a senior leadership role for someone who sets technical strategy and organizational direction, while remaining sharp enough technically to dive into a hard problem, challenge an architecture decision, or mentor an engineer through a tough debugging session when it counts.
You'll own the DevOps roadmap and org structure, and be the escalation point for both people challenges and the toughest technical ones.
What You Will Be Doing
Organizational Leadership
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Manage a team of managers and senior ICs, setting the org structure and growth plan for the DevOps function as it scales
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Own hiring, performance management, and career development for both direct reports and, through them, the broader team
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Coach team leads on how to manage their own people and technical decisions, rather than managing every engineer directly
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Decide when to delegate ownership to a lead versus when to step in personally
Strategy & Technical Direction
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Own the DevOps roadmap, translating business and product priorities into infrastructure and delivery capabilities
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Set technical direction for cloud architecture, CI/CD, and platform reliability across Azure, Kubernetes (AKS), Istio, and GitOps workflows
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Make tooling, budget, and build-vs-buy decisions for the function
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Define KPIs, SLAs, and error budgets that connect infrastructure performance to business outcomes
Deep Technical Involvement
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Get personally involved in the hardest technical challenges — critical incidents, contentious architecture decisions, persistent systemic issues — where your experience changes the outcome