DevOps Technical Lead

Why We Need You – The Mission & Our Vision 

Veryon is a leading software and technology company that enables aviation teams around the world to improve efficiency and safety. Our products maximize uptime for aircraft maintenance teams through customer-driven innovation and world-class service. 

With over 7,500 customers across 137 countries, we serve general and business aviation, military/defense, commercial aviation, and OEMs. Our values—Fueled by Customers, Win Together, Make It Happen, Innovate to Elevate—are the foundation of everything we do. 

As a DevOps Technical Lead, you will drive the modernization and scalability of our software delivery pipelines and cloud environments. You will lead key DevOps initiatives, improve our CI/CD capabilities, optimize observability and release reliability, and mentor engineering teams on DevOps best practices. You will guide technical direction while remaining hands-on — ensuring secure, resilient, and efficient operations as we continue to grow. 

What You'll Accomplish – Your Performance Objectives 

Objective #1 – First 30 Days 

• Complete onboarding and gain familiarity with our applications, CI/CD pipelines, environments, and DevOps tooling. 
• Build strong partnerships with Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Security, and IT Support teams. 
• Review current deployment workflows, monitoring platforms, and release management processes. 
• Identify initial opportunities for reliability and automation improvements. 

Objective #2 – First 90 Days 

• Lead the enhancement of release pipelines to increase deployment success and reduce cycle time. 
• Improve observability and incident response readiness with better logging, alerting, and dashboards. 
• Support cloud security and resiliency improvements in collaboration with Security & Cloud teams. 
• Begin mentoring junior team members through code reviews, task guidance, and DevOps coaching. 
• Own delivery of at least one priority automation or platform improvement project. 

Objective #3 – First 12 Months 

• Deliver measurable improvements in: 
• Deployment success rate and release frequency 
• Application and infrastructure uptime 
• Operational efficiency through automation 
• Lead major modernization initiatives such as: 
• Next-gen CI/CD strategy 
• Unified monitoring and SLO-driven operations 
• Shift-left security and release quality improvements 
• Establish DevOps best practices and training to strengthen engineering capabilities company wide. 
• Provide regular reporting on reliability, delivery performance, and DevOps maturity. 

Key Job Responsibilities 

• Lead design and implementation of efficient CI/CD pipelines and DevOps automation. 
• Drive reliability engineering practices including monitoring, alerting, and proactive issue prevention. 
• Deliver key DevOps and infrastructure projects with accountability for timelines and outcomes. 
• Mentor junior DevOps and engineering team members; guide technical execution and standards. 
• Collaborate with application teams to improve deployment quality and reduce release risk. 
• Enable secure DevOps operations including secrets management, image scanning, and compliance. 
• Work with Cloud & IT teams on networking, identity, and infrastructure optimization. 
• Improve documentation and operational procedures for consistent, scalable delivery. 

Experience and Skills We Seek 

• 5+ years DevOps / SRE / Build & Release engineering experience in enterprise or SaaS environments. 
• Strong hands-on knowledge in: 
• CI/CD tooling (GitLab/Jenkins/GitHub Actions) 
• IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation) 
• Containerization (Kubernetes, Docker) 
• Cloud platforms (AWS / Azure) 
• Experience implementing monitoring platforms and incident response processes. 
• Proven ability to mentor, influence teams, and lead technical project delivery. 
• Strong problem-solving, ownership, and cross-functional collaboration skills. 

Preferred Certifications 

• AWS or Azure cloud certifications 
• Kubernetes and DevOps-related certifications (CKAD, CKA, DevOps Pro) 
• Security certifications beneficial (Security+, CCSP) 

How We Work – The Core Values That We Live By 

Fueled By Customers – We strengthen the platforms that keep aircraft flying — customer uptime is our mission. 

Win Together – DevOps succeeds through collaboration. We work with every technical team to unblock delivery and build trust. 

Make It Happen – When a release needs rescuing or a failure need fixing fast — we own it, solve it, and improve it. 

Innovate to Elevate – We continuously evolve tooling, automation, and best practices to elevate engineering productivity and reliability.