Manager, DevOps

About the Team

Our CI/CD team sets clear delivery and release standards providing the necessary tools systems and hands-on developer support to safely and securely release software assets for SailPoints SaaS business and supporting functionality. By managing platforms that enable developers to deliver secure code in an incremental fashion while maintaining compliance our team plays a critical role in fostering a seamless developer experience and helping SailPoint deliver high-quality resilient services to our customers.

At SailPoint we are building the most comprehensive suite of identity governance & management SaaS products in the world. As the undisputed leader in identity governance and management for both human and non-human identities SailPoint secures 46% of the Fortune 500 and 26% of the Forbes Global 2000. Built from the ground up on a microservices and a multi-tenant architecture we enable customers to connect all of their relevant business applications and effectively manage and govern those identities and access controls. Furthermore we believe that AI agents require the same rigorous security guardrails as humansincluding least-privilege access certifications and separation of dutiesand assert that AI security must be directly embedded within the core Enterprise Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) platform.

As the CI/CD Engineering Manager you will play a pivotal role in shaping the release velocity security posture and compliance standards of our engineering organization. We are seeking a passionate and experienced leader to direct a high-performing team of engineers dedicated to developer enablement platform engineering and pipeline security. You will lead the team that stewards the Secure SDLC and Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs)empowering developers to ship code securely meet stringent testing standards and maintain a rigorous separation of duties.

At scale the solutions you will manage support a multi-geographic developer population of over 1000 engineers and enable more than 250 deployments per week.

• Lead and Mentor: Build lead and develop a high-performing team of CI/CD DevOps and Platform engineers. Own people leadership responsibilities including monetary reimbursement performance reviews and setting clear performance expectations. Foster professional growth career development and technical excellence across the team.

• Secure SDLC & Software Supply Chain: Champion a culture of security and operational excellence. Set direction and hold the team accountable for maturing the platforms pipelines and guardrails that enable developers to deliver secure code. Ensure the team delivers and maintains automated supply chain security controlsincluding SCA/SAST scanning Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generation artifact signing/provenance verification and secrets detectionand that outcomes meet defined standards.

• AI Security for Internal Cloud Agents: Champion secure and safe release practices for our Internal Cloud Agent infrastructure. Ensure the team defines implements and maintains the controls and release patterns required to meet the same rigorous security standards applied across our software delivery ecosystem.

• Internal Developer Platform (IDP) Strategy: Partner with engineering and product to drive a joint vision for self-service developer portals and that reduce cognitive load for engineering squads. Prioritize and hold the team accountable for delivering secure self-service capabilitiesincluding repository provisioning and CI/CD templatesthat meet developer and business needs.

• CI/CD and GitOps Delivery Architecture: Be accountable for the teams continuous integration and GitOps-driven continuous deployment capabilities. Ensure the team designs and operates robust pipelines and declarative deployment systems that deliver safe incremental and highly auditable software releases at scale.

• Compliance & Governance: Ensure the team implements and operates strict policy controls within the delivery spaceincluding repository security branch protections push protections and automated policy-as-code checks. Be accountable for separation of duties and compliance with frameworks such as FedRAMP and SOC 2.

• Pipeline Performance & FinOps: Establish performance and cost expectations for CI/CD infrastructure. Hold the team accountable for meeting pipeline runtime targets and FinOps objectives and ensure CI/CD infrastructure is operated with production-tier discipline.

• Strategy & Roadmap: Partner with engineering leadership product stakeholders and security teams to define and prioritize the teams technical roadmap. Ensure alignment with business objectives and successful execution through the team.
  

• Due to FedRAMP requirements must be a US citizen residing in the US.
  

• Experience: 5 years of experience as an Engineering Manager DevOps/CI/CD Manager or an equivalent technical leadership role within a cloud-native SaaS environment.

• Leadership: Proven ability to lead mentor recruit and empower technical engineers driving organizational change and fostering a collaborative highly accountable team culture.

• CI/CD & GitOps Expertise: Demonstrated ability to lead teams operating modern CI/CD and GitOps environments. Sufficient technical depth to set delivery standards evaluate architecture and tooling decisions and hold engineers accountable for safe scalable and auditable release practices.

• Software Supply Chain Security: Proven leadership ensuring secure software delivery in regulated or high-assurance environments. Ability to define and enforce supply chain security standards and hold teams accountable for compliance with those standards. Comfortable engaging security compliance and audit stakeholders on control design and evidence.

• Cloud Infrastructure & IaC: Working knowledge of cloud platforms and Infrastructure as Code sufficient to guide platform strategy evaluate team designs and be accountable for the reliability security and cost of CI/CD infrastructure.

• Performance & Metrics: Experience tracking pipeline health and delivery metrics (such as DORA metrics: deployment frequency lead time for changes MTTR and change failure rate) to drive continuous improvement.

• Communication: Excellent interpersonal negotiation and communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across highly distributed cross-functional engineering teams.

• Programming: Solid foundational understanding of development with programming languages such as GoLang Python Java or Javascript.
  

• Platform Engineering: Experience building maintaining and scaling self-service Developer Portals (e.g. Backstage) and Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs).

• Compliance Frameworks: Familiarity with audit and compliance standards for highly regulated environments (e.g. FedRAMP SOC 2 ISO 27001).

What success looks like in this role:

Within 30 days you will.....

• Complete onboarding. Hold 1:1s with every team member and key stakeholders across Engineering Security and Compliance

• Understand at a high level the current CI/CD architecture Secure SDLC posture and compliance landscape

• Review the active roadmap in-flight work and team health (capacity skills open headcount)
  

By 90 days

• Work with the Product Owner and technical leads to update a prioritized near-term roadmap informed by stakeholder input and your own technical assessment

• Begin executing on 12 high-impact improvements to pipelines or supply chain security
  

By 180 days

• Deliver measurable improvements to pipeline performance security posture and/or developer self-service

• Work with the Product Owner and technical leads to extend the strategic roadmap to 6-12 months.

• Have a fully staffed high-functioning team with clear ownership areas and growth plans

By 1 Year

• Deliver a materially improved Internal Developer Platform that reduces cognitive load for engineering squads

• Own an audit-ready Secure SDLC and software supply chain security program; successfully navigate a full audit cycle

• Lead a high-performing engaged team recognized by leadership as a strategic partner in developer enablement

Benefits and Compensation listed vary based on the location of your employment and the nature of your employment with SailPoint.

As a part of the total compensation package this role may be eligible for the SailPoint Corporate Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission along with potential eligibility for equity participation. SailPoint maintains broad salary ranges for its roles to account for variations in knowledge skills experience market conditions and locations as well as reflect SailPoints differing products industries and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity. We estimate the base salary for US-based employees will be in this range from (min-mid-max USD):

Base salaries for employees based in other locations are competitive for the employees home location.

Benefits Overview

1. Health and wellness coverage: Medical dental and vision insurance

2. Disability coverage: Short-term and long-term disability

3. Life protection: Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)

4. Additional life coverage options: Supplemental life insurance for employees spouses and children

5. Flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent care; limited purpose flexible spending account

6. Financial security: 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company matching

7. Time off benefits: Flexible vacation policy

8. Holidays: 8 paid holidays annually

9. Sick leave

10. Parental support: Paid parental leave

11. Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Care Counselors

12. Voluntary benefits: Legal Assistance Critical Illness Accident Hospital Indemnity and Pet Insurance options

13. Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution

SailPoint is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome all qualified candidates to apply to join our team. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability protected veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.

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