DevOps Manager

• Work with Platform Architects and DevOps Engineers to define and communicate a shared platform vision that delivers customer value.
• Collaborate with Product Management and R&D to ensure the platform is fit for purpose, secure, and scalable.
• Describe the platform context and operational intent; analyze trade-offs across reliability, performance, security, cost, and regulatory requirements.
• Define and evolve core platform components and subsystems (cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, security).
• Establish standards and guardrails for infrastructure as code, releases, configuration, and access management.
• Ensure DevOps processes, tooling, and documentation support GxP, Computer System Validation (CSV), audit readiness, and traceability requirements.
• Own and mature the configuration management and formal change control processes, including impact assessment, approvals, and controlled releases.
• Lead the end-to-end product release process for a validated, commercial software product delivered to TechOps for field installation., * Lead and develop the DevOps team; manage goals and performance reviews.
• Own CI/CD strategy; standardize pipelines, implement security gates, and improve DORA metrics.
• Define platform standards (Terraform, Helm, Git); build shared tooling and golden paths.
• Set SLIs/SLOs for internal platforms and CI/CD systems, lead incident response, postmortems, and preventive improvements for infrastructure and internal environments.
• Plan environments and capacity; manage upgrades and promotions.
• Ensure robust monitoring, logging, and tracing; deliver actionable alerts.
• Own security posture: secrets management, IAM, hardening, vulnerability remediation, and policy-as-code.
• Validate disaster recovery: backups, restores, and recovery tests.
• Optimize cloud cost and performance; implement autoscaling and lifecycle policies.
• Drive automation for build, integration, testing, and deployments.
• Ensure DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines comply with GxP, validation, and documentation standards
• Maintain traceability across code, configurations, environments, and release artifacts in alignment with configuration management and change control requirements.
• Own the product release pipeline, including packaging, validation, documentation, release note generation, and handoff to TechOps for customer installation.

Do you have experience in Terraform?, Do you have a Master's degree?, * Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

• 8-10+ years of experience in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering with strong hands-on programming skills (including 3-5 years of experience managing a team).
• Expertise with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Docker, Git, and Linux is a must.
• Experience with CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub Actions), observability (Prometheus/Grafana), and security best practices is a must.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
• Ability to work independently and lead cross-functional initiatives.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., CEH, SANS) are a plus.

We help our customers accelerate life sciences research, solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics and increase laboratory productivity. With $1.4 billion invested annually in R&D, our collaborative and diverse teams have the resources they need to drive new discoveries and do cutting-edge research and develop important applications and tools that help millions of lives around the world.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with an annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global team of more than 100,000+ colleagues deliver an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD.