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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
Drive adoption of modern pipeline tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, cALM, SAP Solution Manager, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD, other pipelines)
Enforce pipeline-as-code standards, enforce branch strategy governance, and ensure automated build, test, and deploy processes operate across SAP BTP, Salesforce, Databricks, and custom application stacks
Lead the shift-left engineering culture embedding quality and security at every pipeline stage
Define and govern the enterprise automated testing strategy encompassing functional, integration, regression, performance, and security test automation
Own the automation-first mandate
Establish code coverage thresholds, regression gates, and test-data management standards
Oversee toolchain selection and governance (Selenium, Playwright, Tosca, UFT One, OpenText ALM, REST Assured) aligned to VGO's SAP S/4HANA, Salesforce, and API integration landscape
Establish and enforce enterprise code quality standards and automated code review practices using static analysis tooling (SonarQube, CodeQL, ESLint, ABAP Code Inspector)
Govern pull request workflows, peer review SLAs, and automated gate enforcement within GitHub Enterprise
Align code quality checks against documented architecture requirements and clean core compliance standards
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
Own the change advisory function: risk-score changes, enforce change windows, govern emergency change procedures, and maintain auditability across environments
Ensure release governance aligns with SOX controls, PDPL obligations, and VGO security standards
Lead go/no-go decision authority for major releases
Lead enterprise cutover planning, execution, and cutover command operations for major releases including SAP S/4HANA Project Phoenix wave go-lives
Own the cutover runbook library and rehearsal cadence
Define and validate failover and rollback procedures for all production environments
Ensure BCP/DR alignment for production pipelines, including RTO/RPO targets for CI/CD toolchain failures
Partner with infrastructure and platform engineering on environment stability, blue-green and canary deployment patterns, and post-release hypercare
Lead and develop a global DevOps engineering team including release engineers, automation engineers, QA leads, and pipeline specialists
Build a culture of engineering excellence, blameless post-mortems, and continuous improvement (DORA metrics-driven)
Define career development paths and upskilling programs aligned to modern DevOps toolchains and practices
Drive VGO-wide adoption of DevOps maturity assessment frameworks and report pipeline health and delivery velocity to senior IT and business leadership
Requirements
Bachelor's degree (prefer Software Engineering, Information Systems, business or related field)
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
Expert-level proficiency with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or equivalent modern pipeline orchestration tools
Strong knowledge of pipeline-as-code (Jenkinsfile, YAML workflows), artifact management (Nexus, JFrog), and environment promotion patterns
Experience with GitOps principles, branching strategies (trunk-based, GitFlow), and PR governance controls
Deep expertise in enterprise automated testing frameworks: Selenium, Playwright, Tosca, REST Assured, OpenText UFT One
Experience defining and governing test coverage standards, regression suite architecture, and shift-left testing practices
Performance and load testing experience (OpenText LoadRunner, k6, JMeter) including production simulation and NFR validation
Hands-on experience with SonarQube, CodeQL, GitHub Advanced Security, and ABAP Code Inspector
Ability to define and enforce quality gates, branch protection rules, and peer review SLA standards within GitHub Enterprise
Strong change risk assessment and ITSM alignment experience (ServiceNow ITSM or equivalent)
Experience participating in or leading Architecture Review Board (ARB) governance processes for delivery changes
Familiarity with SOX change control requirements and audit-ready release documentation
Proven experience leading enterprise cutover command operations, including runbook creation, dry-run execution, and go-live decision authority
Knowledge of failover patterns, BCP/DR for CI/CD toolchains, blue-green and canary deployment strategies
Experience defining RTO/RPO targets and validating rollback procedures for production environments
Exceptional stakeholder communication skills
Experience with dev ops KPI metrics (deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR, lead time)
Strong coaching mindset with a track record of building and upskilling DevOps engineering teams at enterprise scale
Up to 15% domestic and international travel
After-hours support may be required during major global releases or transformation milestones
Nice to have
Master's degree or equivalent practical experience in DevOps, software delivery engineering, or enterprise architecture
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
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)