Note: This is Not a C2C Hiring
Role: DevOps Lead / DevOps Transformation Lead
Location: Foster City, CA or Raleigh, NC preferred. Remote candidates can also be considered
Duration: 12 Months
Industry: Life Sciences
Rate: $52/hr on W2, No Benefits
Experience: 12+ years preferred
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced DevOps Lead to drive enterprise-scale DevOps transformation and adoption across engineering teams. The role will focus on defining the DevOps roadmap, modernizing CI/CD and engineering practices, improving developer experience, and driving measurable improvements in software delivery performance.
Key Responsibilities
Define and own the DevOps transformation roadmap, aligned with engineering and business priorities.
Drive adoption of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, shift-left testing, platform engineering, and Site Reliability Engineering practices.
Lead DevOps culture and change-management initiatives across multiple engineering teams.
Establish and track DORA metrics, including deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and MTTR.
Lead initiatives around toolchain optimization, automation, developer experience, and process re-engineering.
Coordinate cross-team dependencies and drive resolution of technical and delivery impediments.
Govern resource plans, delivery priorities, risks, and vendor relationships.
Facilitate technical workshops, retrospectives, executive reviews, and DevOps communities of practice.
Provide clear transformation status and recommendations to client and internal leadership.
Required Skills
12+ years of technology delivery, program, DevOps, or transformation experience.
Proven experience leading DevOps, cloud, Agile, or engineering transformation at enterprise scale.
Strong understanding of CI/CD architectures, cloud-native engineering, Infrastructure as Code, automation, and SRE.
Working knowledge of modern DevOps ecosystems such as GitHub/GitLab, Jenkins/Azure DevOps, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms.
Strong understanding and application of DORA engineering metrics.
Experience working with Agile and SAFe-based enterprise delivery models.
Strong stakeholder management, leadership, facilitation, and executive communication skills.
Ability to translate complex engineering concepts into clear business outcomes.
Preferred Profile
A hands-on, transformation-oriented DevOps leader who can operate at both strategy and execution levels, influence engineering teams, establish governance and standards, and accelerate DevOps maturity across a large enterprise environment.