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The IT Senior Manager, CI/CD Engineering & DevOps is responsible for owning and evolving Valvoline Global Operations' enterprise continuous integration, continuous delivery, and automated quality engineering capabilities. This leader drives the modernization of VGO's delivery pipelines across SAP S/4HANA (and associated SAP products), Salesforce, Databricks, and custom application platforms — replacing traditional manual QA and change management practices with automated, pipeline-driven quality gates, continuous testing, and intelligent release governance.
Job Responsibility
Own the enterprise CI/CD pipeline strategy, architecture, and execution across all VGO platforms
Define and govern the enterprise automated testing strategy encompassing functional, integration, regression, performance, and security test automation
Establish and enforce enterprise code quality standards and automated code review practices using static analysis tooling
Serve as the DevOps and Release lead in the Architecture Review Board (ARB) process, assessing delivery readiness, pipeline compliance, and change risk for platform and application changes
Lead enterprise cutover planning, execution, and cutover command operations for major releases including SAP S/4HANA Project Phoenix wave go-lives
Lead and develop a global DevOps engineering team including release engineers, automation engineers, QA leads, and pipeline specialists
Requirements
8+ years of progressive experience in software delivery, DevOps engineering, or release management
5+ years managing enterprise-scale CI/CD pipelines in a heterogeneous technology environment
Demonstrated experience with automated testing at enterprise scale (functional, regression, integration, performance)
Proven track record leading production cutover, failover validation, and hypercare operations for major releases
Required: Bachelor's degree (prefer Software Engineering, Information Systems, business or related field)
Preferred: Master's degree or equivalent practical experience in DevOps, software delivery engineering, or enterprise architecture
Preferred: Experience with SAP-specific CI/CD toolchains (SAP Cloud Transport Management (cALM or Solution Manager), ABAP Development Tools, SAP BTP CI/CD Service)
Preferred: Salesforce DevOps Center, Copado, or Gearset experience for Salesforce delivery pipelines
Preferred: Hands-on experience in regulated or SOX-controlled environments
Nice to have
Experience with SAP-specific CI/CD toolchains (SAP Cloud Transport Management (cALM or Solution Manager), ABAP Development Tools, SAP BTP CI/CD Service)
Salesforce DevOps Center, Copado, or Gearset experience for Salesforce delivery pipelines
Hands-on experience in regulated or SOX-controlled environments
Master's degree or equivalent practical experience in DevOps, software delivery engineering, or enterprise architecture
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Google Cloud DevOps certification or related certifications
DevOps Fundamentals, or equivalent Agile/DevOps certification
ISTQB Advanced Level – Test Automation Engineer
ITIL 4 Foundation (for change and release process alignment)