DevOps Manager

Company: Delta Dental of NJ
Location: Parsippany
Posted on: February 17, 2026

Job Description:

Job Description Job Description Job Summary We are looking for an enthusiastic candidate to take a hands-on approach to lead our Application Services team in supporting business process operations and managing the high availability, scalability, and resiliency of business applications comprised of custom-developed and off-the-shelf software solutions. This position has significant impact and visibility, requiring collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders and occasional executive communication (e.g. during major incidents or planning sessions). Ultimately, you will be responsible for the overall health of our application ecosystem, optimizing how we build, deploy, run, and scale our software to support business goals. You will minimize deployment overhead and ensure proper release process adherence by leveraging your expertise in CI/CD and software delivery, while facilitating clear cross-team communications and enforcing quality standards throughout the release pipeline. Additionally, you will proactively drive the adoption of low code/no code solutions across the organization, empowering teams to streamline processes and accelerate innovation with platforms such as Power Automate. Essential Functions & Responsibilities Lead Application Services Team for Reliability & Performance: Provide day-to-day leadership of the Application Services team to ensure business continuity, operational excellence, and system reliability across enterprise applications. Oversee critical integrations, batch job schedules, and automation workflows, ensuring timely identification and remediation of issues that could impact service availability. Enhance Monitoring & Proactive Operations: Implement and own enterprise observability solutions to drive a proactive Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) culture. Configure and manage monitoring tools (e.g. Datadog) to track the health, availability, and performance of key applications. Continuously optimize alerting mechanisms (e.g. via AlertOps) to ensure on-call teams receive actionable notifications and can resolve issues before they impact users. Incident Management & Support: Serve as the escalation point for production incidents (Sev1/Sev2 issues) and coordinate rapid, cross-functional responses. Provide technical leadership during incident triage and post-mortems. Communicate status updates to business stakeholders in plain language during outages to maintain trust. Participate in an on-call rotation for after-hours support. Leverage monitoring insights and incident learnings to drive preventative fixes and process improvements that reduce recurrence. Champion CI/CD and Release Management: Oversee and continuously improve our CI/CD pipelines across all technology solutions. Manage enterprise source code repositories and automated build/deployment processes (Azure DevOps) to enable rapid, safe releases. Coordinate release windows and interdependencies across teams, ensuring alignment with change management and release governance standards. Lead deployment planning meetings to develop playbooks, assess risks, and ensure smooth production releases with minimal downtime. Drive a culture of value-driven low code/no code automation: Own the automation portfolio, moving beyond task execution to champion a value-first approach in collaboration with business stakeholders. Guide the team to critically evaluate and prioritize opportunities, ensuring development efforts are exclusively focused on deploying solutions that solve the most significant business challenges. Continuous Improvement & Backlog Ownership: As the product owner for Application Services, identify and prioritize opportunities to reduce complexity, improve application resiliency, observability, and automate manual operational tasks. Drive these initiatives to completion to achieve measurable gains in deployment speed, system stability, and team productivity. Essential Qualifications DDNJ Competencies: Collaboration Relationship Building Communication-Listening Skills Negotiation Skills Conflict Resolution Consulting Skills Problem Solving-Analysis Attention to Detail Ability to Maintain Composure Dependability Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Technical and Functional Strong knowledge and demonstrated understanding of enterprise-class business applications Ability to promote the expansion of automation and CI/CD pipelines across teams. Experience in managing a backlog and functioning in Agile Methodologies (Kanban & SCRUM). Strong knowledge and demonstrated understanding of technical quality control processes and tools. Proficient in support of process automation using low code no code platforms like Power Automate. Experience with any of the following is an advantage, .Net, Restful APIs, Mulesoft, Salesforce, WebMethods, Zena, Power Automate, Dynamics, DocuSign or Formstack. Experience of GCP and IAC tooling such as ARM, Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent is a benefit. Required Physical Abilities The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Ability to sit and perform extensive close keyboard and PC work. Ability to walk, talk or hear. Occasionally required to stand and reach with hands and arms. Working Environment Ability to meet deadlines and attendance standards. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. This classification will be required to sign a confidentiality agreement. Experience, Education, and Certifications Required Experience Required 8 years of IT experience, with 3 years of Production Operations Support 2 years of DevOps or Release Management leadership experience 2 years of hands-on working experience with CI/CD processes for MS .Net (C#) / Salesforce 2 years of experience using Low code/no Code solutions like Power Automate 2 years of hands-on working experience with managing, source code repositories like and GIT and automation of configuration management tasks. 2 years in a management role with direct reports. Required Educational Level BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or MIS or another relevant field of study is preferable.

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