Director of DevOps Engineering | Hybrid | Northeast Atlanta

Coda Search is proud to partner with an established, growing financial software company to hire a Director of DevOps Engineering. Candidates must live within a reasonable commute of the northeast Atlanta suburbs for two onsite days per week.

Location: Northeast Atlanta Suburbs, OTP - Gwinnett Region (Hybrid)

Base Salary: ~Target salary around $175K with upward flex, depending on experience.

Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, PTO, and tuition reimbursement

Schedule: Hybrid, 2 days per week onsite

What's in it for you?

• Build the function: You'll own DevOps and release management for the whole engineering organization and set the tooling, standards, and release strategy.
• Real investment behind you: The company is in the middle of a funded technology modernization, and this seat sits at the center of it.
• Measurable impact: You'll set and move DORA metrics, so the results of your work show up in hard numbers.
• Leadership with your hands on the keyboard: You'll lead a team of 6 to 7 DevOps engineers and still work directly in the pipelines and infrastructure code.
• Stable, established business: The product is mature with a loyal customer base, so your focus is modernization instead of survival.

What will your day look like?

• Own release management: Define release cadence, versioning, release coordination, and production change controls across engineering.
• Architect CI/CD: Design and continuously improve pipeline architecture and standardize tooling across teams.
• Lead Infrastructure as Code: Drive IaC and policy-as-code practices on Azure, with Terraform or similar tooling.
• Modernize deployments: Put in progressive delivery, including Blue/Green and Canary releases, automated rollback, and ephemeral per-branch environments.
• Embed DevSecOps: Build automated security scanning and policy enforcement into the pipeline in partnership with Security.
• Run Kubernetes workloads: Support containerized deployment and routing on Kubernetes.
• Partner across the org: Work with Engineering, Security, and QA on release readiness, deployment safety, and incident learning.
• Develop the team: Hire, coach, and manage the performance of a team of 6 to 7 DevOps engineers.

Who are you?

• Experienced: You have 8+ years in DevOps, release engineering, or software engineering.
• A proven people leader: You've directly managed a DevOps or engineering team for 3+ years, including hiring and performance management.
• Hands-on in Azure: You've run production workloads in Microsoft Azure. This is required.
• An IaC and pipeline builder: You've designed CI/CD architecture and release processes at scale, using tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps, with Terraform or similar IaC.
• Fluent in containers and modern delivery: You've worked with Docker and Kubernetes in production and have shipped with progressive delivery patterns.
• A change agent: You'd rather build and modernize a function than maintain one, and you bring structure and automation to environments that are still maturing.

Application & Contact Information

To apply, please apply directly here on LinkedIn. For more immediate consideration, feel free to send me an email directly to [email protected].

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