Director of DevOps

Company: Bakkt
Location: Alpharetta
Posted on: February 19, 2021

Job Description:

--Who We Are Bakkt unlocks the $1.2+ trillion of digital assets that is currently held in cryptocurrencies, rewards and loyalty points, gaming assets and merchant stored value. We began in 2018 with the vision to bring trust and transparency to digital assets. Through the Bakkt Warehouse and Bakkt Bitcoin Futures and Options contracts, we serve institutional clients in an end-to-end regulated market with true price transparency. For consumers, Bakkt aggregates digital assets to enable instant liquidity and to empower users to trade, transfer and pay however they want. Merchants within the Bakkt ecosystem see a lower cost of payment acceptance, enhanced customer engagement, and decreased loyalty through a variety of redemption options. Responsibilities A director level position to lead Bakkt's DevOps team that is accountable for the management and reliability of all non-customer facing cloud-based environments and support of multiple development teams in the delivery of software releases using Agile methodologies.

• Responsible for the day-to-day support of non-production cloud environments
• Partners with several development and product teams to deliver class leading infrastructure solutions to advance company's market place standing
• Partners with and works closely with the SRE team to ensure proper handoff of code delivery as well as standards creation and adoption
• Manages day-to-day work assignments as well as long-range planning for the DevOps function
• Establishes team goals and objectives that align and support overall company goals
• Works with project manager to provide consistent, transparent reporting of the DevOps function Required Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
  
  • 5+ years of experience in managing highly technical teams using cloud-based toolsets and technologies
  • Ability to work and design Scrum/Kanban efforts
  • Experience with Azure/EC2/GCP infrastructure and architecture
  • Experience with cloud based DevOps Tools (GitHub, Artifactory, Azure DevOps Pipeline, Terraform)
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong technical, analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Establish and maintain infrastructure security controls that is aligned with security policies/procedures
  • Self-starter who can work independently and effectively across functional team environments
  • Adept at partnering with peer teams to maximize quality deliverables
  • Ability to work with various teams across the organization and partners for aligning SLIs/SLOs/SLAs
  • Proficient with on-call scheduling Preferred Experience
    • Experience managing DevOps teams in a fast-paced environment
    • Knowledge of DevOps methodologies and CI/CD principles
    • Proficient working with code reviews, data structures and production troubleshooting
    • Expertise in working with globally scaled distributed systems
    • Knowledge and experience with Terraform/PagerDuty Bakkt is devoted to having diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Bakkt does not make any employment decisions based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, veteran status, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity of any other characteristic protected by law

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