Technical Project Manager, DevOps

Perfect Sense

(Reston, Virginia)
Full Time
Job Posting Details
About Perfect Sense
Perfect Sense is a full-service product company that capitalizes on its enterprise digital application development platform, Brightspot, to drive innovations in web and mobile development for corporations worldwide. Perfect Sense originally created and now actively supports the Brightspot platform, which powers dynamic and highly engaging consumer experiences.
Summary
Do you want to work hard alongside talented engineers and product experts every day? Do you excel when you’re smack in the middle of a challenging project, thrive when things get complex, and yawn when everything's going according to plan? Do you actually want to like your clients and coworkers? Perfect Sense is a collective group of smart, dedicated professionals with expertise in developing and deploying large-scale consumer digital experiences. We provide innovative software solutions and solve complex business challenges for some of the biggest brands in the world. Our Development Operations team is at the crux of these solutions, focused on the delivery, care, and maintenance of 40+ properties - and the tools and infrastructure required to meet our high expectations of performance and reliability. Perfect Sense is seeking a Technical Project Manager to manage the day-to-day projects, planning, and client interaction that keeps this critical team on track. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, precise, a great communicator, and passionate about making our clients successful. This is a key role and can be a critical career step for the right candidate.
Responsibilities
**Team Management** * Plan and conduct weekly meetings * Enter and scrub Jira tickets for Operational work * Maintain install/launch calendar, on-call calendar, moratoriums * Provide incident management support for on-call team (Escalation tier) **External Operational Management** * Host regular meetings with cloud services partners (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Rackspace) * Evaluate and manage relationships with other third-party service providers * Handle questions and first-level explanation for hosting and operations sales to new clients * Assist non-technical clients with operational tasks in their company (DNS records, SSL certificates, etc) * Provide and maintain escalation support information for clients based on their product/environment needs. **Internal Operational Management** * Quarterly review security policies and systems * Work with product managers to understand and plan upcoming work * Work with architect to understand and plan upcoming work * Build and maintain launch plans for new sites and major changes to existing sites * Maintain current operating specifications and other operations documentation * Review and analyze costs associated with AWS, Rackspace and other providers to prevent cost overruns. * Provide first-level operational support to developers and qa looking for assistance with environments and tools * Maintain statistics around Operational functions (availability, tickets, pages, etc) **System Administration Work** * Set up new LDAP accounts * Set up/manage SES accounts in AWS * Build or modify lower environments using our tools * Build or modify screens in monitoring and log analysis systems * Create CSRs and SSL certificates
Ideal Candidate
* Bachelor’s degree * 5+ years experience as a Project/Program Manager, including delivering enterprise-scale web applications or analytics implementations. * Prior experience supporting systems operations, network operations center, or Web operations organizations * Demonstrated ability to multi-task with multiple teams in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities * Maturity, judgment, negotiation/influence skills, attention to detail, and strong analytical skills. * Successful experience in a matrixed or shared services environment

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