Director, DevOps

Join to apply for the Director, DevOps role at HireRight. Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features. About HireRight HireRight is the premier global background screening and workforce solutions provider. We bring clarity and confidence to vetting and hiring decisions through integrated, tailored solutions, driving a higher standard of accuracy in everything we do. Combining in-house talent, personalized services, and proprietary technology, we ensure the best candidate experience possible. PBSA accredited and based in Nashville, Tennessee, we offer expertise from our regional centers across 200 countries and territories in The Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Our commitment to get it right every time, everywhere, makes us the trusted partner of businesses and organizations worldwide. Overview We are seeking an innovative DevOps Director to partner with technical and product teams across business units, understand the unique and common aspects of each, and design, facilitate, and build tooling to accelerate organizational velocity. The successful candidate will be responsible for collaborating with tech teams and stakeholders throughout the organization to develop DevOps practices and solutions as we transform and advance the design, development of our platform. The successful candidate will also manage a team of DevOps engineers and participate in the building of solutions while overseeing design and execution. Responsibilities Help build a DevOps and CI/CD team and be part of a high-performance, responsive team of DevOps Engineers Liaise with development teams across technology teams to elevate existing best practices and collaborate to build new solutions that address identified opportunities Liaise with the CTO leadership team and work to bring modernization to the DevOps space while following enterprise guidelines Play a critical role in building best practices-based DevOps culture Build, operate, and advocate DevOps solutions and tooling accelerating company goals Lead, coach, and manage a small team of DevOps engineers while continuing to contribute functionally Write performance reviews and grow the talent of direct reports Take full ownership of the DevOps discipline and be responsible for managing all server/infrastructure related issues Qualifications Experience managing public cloud infrastructure on AWS/GCP, including design, implementation, and maintenance of large-scale environments. Hands on experience in building CI/CD pipelines, preferably Gitlab Experience with Kubernetes container orchestration technologies. AWS EKS, or Google GKE is strongly desired. Experience in Continuous Delivery tools like ArgoCD Experience in IAC tooling like Terraform for GCP/AWS and/or other similar tooling Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservice architecture, logging/metric/tracing platforms (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, etc), and security. Able to debug, troubleshoot, and resolve complex technical issues calmly and efficiently. Experience in Event-Driven architecture Strong knowledge and understanding of enterprise-class business applications that are high performance and low latency. Ability to encourage the development of CI/CD pipelines and automation across teams. Competent in all facets of agile methodologies (Kanban & SCRUM) and software development. Strong familiarity with and evidence of grasp of technical quality control procedures and equipment. Knowledge of integrating tools for best practices such code coverage analysis, automated unit testing, integration testing, and static code analysis. Understanding of IAC tooling, including Terraform, ARM, and Ansible. Strong knowledge of Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud (Mongo DB preferred) 8+ years of IT experience 6+ years of DevOps or Release Management leadership experience 3+ years of hands‑on working experience with CI/CD processes 2+ years of working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP is a benefit 2+ years of hands‑on working experience with managing, source code repositories like TFVC and GIT/Bitbucket, and automation of configuration management tasks. 2+ years in a management role with direct reports. What Do We Offer Medical Dental Vision Paid Life/AD&D Insurance Voluntary Life Insurance Short & Long Term Disability Flexible Spending Accounts 401K Generous Vacation and Sick Program 10 Paid Holidays Education Assistance Program Business Casual Attire Generous Referral Program Employee Discounts and Rewards And much more All resumes are held in confidence. Only candidates whose profiles closely match requirements will be contacted during this search. HireRight, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities / Females / Veterans / Disabilities HireRight does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of HireRight and HireRight will not be obligated to pay a placement fee. This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by a team member’s occupying this position. Team members may be required to perform other related duties as assigned, to ensure workload coverage. Team members are required to follow any other job‑related instructions and to perform any other job‑related duties requested by their supervisor. This job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and team member and is subject to change by the employer as the organizational needs and requirements of the job change. This job description is subject to change at any time. Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at HireRight by 2x Seniority level: Director Employment type: Full-time Job function: Management and Manufacturing Industries: Human Resources Services #J-18808-Ljbffr