DevOps Practice Lead

DevOps Practice Lead

Are you interested in working with the World's leading AI-powered Quality Engineering Company? Ready to advance your career, team up with global thought leaders across industries and make a difference every day? Join us at Qualitest! We are looking for a DevOps Practice Lead to join our growing team in Dallas, TX United States! Position Summary: We are seeking a dynamic and strategic DevOps Practice Lead to lead and expand our DevOps practice across multiple client engagements and internal transformation initiatives. This role is responsible for defining DevOps strategy, driving delivery excellence, building high-performing teams, developing innovative solutions, and enabling enterprise-scale cloud and DevOps transformations. This leadership role will drive enterprise modernization initiatives by combining Cloud, Automation, DevSecOps, AI/ML Operations (MLOps), and Generative AI (GenAI) capabilities to accelerate software delivery, operational efficiency, and business innovation. The ideal candidate will possess strong expertise in DevOps and Cloud Engineering along with emerging capabilities in AI-assisted software delivery, AIOps, MLOps, and GenAI-powered engineering productivity solutions. The candidate combines strong technical expertise with leadership, client engagement, business development, and organizational transformation experience.

Key Responsibilities: Practice Leadership & Strategy Define and execute the overall DevOps practice vision, roadmap, and growth strategy. Build scalable DevOps service offerings, accelerators, frameworks, and reusable assets. Establish enterprise DevOps standards, governance models, and best practices. Drive innovation across CI/CD, Infrastructure Automation, and DevSecOps capabilities. Lead adoption of AI-driven engineering and operational capabilities across the SDLC. Lead DevOps transformation initiatives for clients and internal teams. Client Engagement & Delivery Serve as a trusted advisor to clients on DevOps strategy, cloud adoption, automation, and operational transformation. Lead DevOps assessments, maturity evaluations, workshops, and roadmap development engagements. Drive successful delivery of enterprise transformation programs involving DevOps automation, and AI adoption. Oversee successful delivery of DevOps programs across multiple accounts and portfolios. Ensure delivery quality, operational excellence, SLA adherence, and customer satisfaction. Manage executive stakeholder communication and strategic planning discussions. Create, Track and Deliver DevSecOps and Infra metrics. Team Leadership & Capability Development Build, mentor, and lead high-performing DevOps, MLOps and Cloud teams. Define career paths, competency models, training plans, and certification strategies for AI-enabled engineering practices. Foster a culture of automation, collaboration, innovation, continuous learning, and accountability. Support hiring, workforce planning, onboarding, and resource management activities. DevOps & Cloud Engineering Guide enterprise adoption of CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, containerization, and cloud-native architectures. Drive automation initiatives across build, release, deployment, testing, infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and operations. Innovate and infuse GenAI solutions to the automation initiatives. Lead implementation of scalable and secure DevOps platforms using tools such as: Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab CI/CD Azure DevOps Terraform Kubernetes Docker Ansible Partner with Security teams to integrate DevSecOps and compliance automation practices. Integrate security and compliance into automated CI/CD pipelines. Business Growth & Innovation Support pre-sales activities including solutioning, estimations, proposals, RFP responses, and client presentations. Develop innovative offerings and AI-enabled accelerators to improve delivery efficiency and market differentiation. Identify opportunities to improve engineering productivity using AI and automation. Contribute to strategic partnerships, alliances, and technology evaluations. Operational Excellence Define KPIs, metrics, dashboards, and governance processes for DevOps operations. Improve deployment frequency, release quality, platform reliability, and operational efficiency. Establish observability, incident management, and SRE best practices. Drive continuous improvement initiatives and operational maturity programs.

Required Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field. 15+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, and Software Delivery. 10+ years in leadership or practice management roles. Strong expertise in: CI/CD Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) Infrastructure as Code Kubernetes & Containers DevSecOps Experience implementing AI/ML or Generative AI solutions within engineering or operational workflows. Experience leading large-scale DevOps transformation programs. Deep understanding of DevOps, and SRE methodologies. Experience managing global teams and delivering enterprise client engagements. Support pre-sales activities including solutioning, estimations, proposals, RFP responses, and client presentations. Strong communication, presentation, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications: Deep understanding of Agile, SAFe methodologies. Experience with: Azure OpenAI Claude Llama GPT Certifications such as: AWS/Azure/GCP Certifications Kubernetes Certifications (CKA/CKS) SAFe Agilist ITIL Terraform Associate DevOps Certifications AI/ML certifications Experience in regulated industries such as Healthcare, Banking, Telecom, Government, or DoD. Experience with Platform Engineering and Internal Developer Platforms (IDP).

Additional notes: Indirectly leading 50+ people, but about 7 direct reports. Benefits: Why QualiTest? Be a part of a company who strives to support for diversity and inclusion in the workplace – we are one, we are many at Qualitest. Celebrate culture, share knowledge with engineers from around the globe, and inspire each other through our differences. We have more than 40% women and around 120 different nationalities. Local and global opportunities – we offer you internal rotation and international mobility opportunities to grow your career. Clear view of your career and progression with the company – Qualitest is growing massively (since 2021 – tripled our employees base – we now have more than 8,000 engineers) and giving you the opportunity to grow with us. Work hard and play harder with our flexible and casual culture. Take a break from work and join an employee event, or enjoy the amenities and games provided from one of our Employees Centers. Save your earnings and prepare for your future by enrolling in our 401k plan where Qualitest will match your contributions accelerating your savings plan. Take care of health with enrollment into one of our competitive healthcare benefits. Qualitest will match towards your HSA if you choose to participate. Never stop experimenting and learning with QCraft – our Learning & Development platform: 50,000+ courses, 300+ virtual labs, mentorship and leadership programs, professional tribes, sponsored certifications, and much more. Stay active and get rewarded with our Corporate Wellness Program. We pay your Gym membership and giving you opportunities to Earn additional vacation times for attendance the gym! Earn bonuses via our Client Referral and Employee Referral Program's. Refer and earn – tap your network for net-worth. We recognize our employees work via our Qudos platform - You can earn bonuses and spot awards by celebrating your and your peers' achievements. Planning a vacation? Looking for car insurance? Get access to Qualitest Employee Perks for discounts on anything from travel to electronics. With so many offerings the savings are endless! A Competitive pay, the salary range for the role is $200,000 - $220,000.