DevOps Director

About the Role

Owns the engineering platform beneath every IGA/IAM engagement: environments, pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and the secure operation of identity platforms in client and Gruve-hosted estates. Also owns the identity of the delivery chain itself — the service accounts, workload identities, secrets and certificates that identity platforms run on and that auditors ask about first. 

Key Responsibilities

• Own environment strategy across the portfolio: development, test, UAT and production estates for IGA platforms, including refresh cadence, data masking and anonymization of production identity data in lower environments. 
• Build and govern CI/CD for identity artifacts — configuration-as-code promotion, object versioning and packaging for SailPoint, Saviynt, and Okta, automated deployment, drift detection and rollback. 
• Own infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible) for identity platform infrastructure and containerized deployment on Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE). 
• Own secrets and non-human identity management across the practice: vaulting, workload identity federation, service-account and API-key lifecycle, and certificate and PKI lifecycle for connector and federation endpoints. 
• Design and validate platform reliability for identity workloads: HA and DR architecture, RPO/RTO validation, and capacity and performance tuning for aggregation cycles, certification campaigns and peak provisioning load. 
• Secure the delivery chain: SAST/DAST and dependency scanning in the pipeline, SBOM generation, artifact signing, and least-privilege pipeline and repository access. 
• Stand up observability for identity platforms — provisioning failure rates, aggregation SLA, connector health, task and workflow queue depth — and route identity audit logs into the client SIEM. 
• Lead the DevOps and platform engineering team across US and Pune; set engineering standards, chair change advisory for platform changes, and own audit evidence for client and internal audit. 
• Partner with the Principal Engineering Manager on architecture decisions with platform impact, and support presales for hosting, managed-service and platform-modernization scope. 
• Own platform upgrade and patch strategy across client estates, including vendor release tracking, regression risk assessment and coordinated upgrade windows. 

Basic Qualifications

• CKA/CKAD, HashiCorp Terraform Associate, or Azure/AWS Solutions Architect certification. 
• CISSP or CCSP. 
• SRE practice — SLI/SLO definition, error budgets, chaos and DR testing. 
• Zero Trust architecture, ZTNA and micro segmentation experience. 
• Experience running a hosted or managed identity service with contractual SLAs. 

Preferred Qualifications

• 10–15+ years in infrastructure, platform or DevOps engineering, including 5+ years leading teams and 4+ years supporting IAM/IGA or comparable security platforms. 
• Deep CI/CD ownership (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or Jenkins) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible) at enterprise scale. 
• Kubernetes depth and strong cloud platform experience on Azure and/or AWS or GCP, including cloud IAM models and workload identity federation. 
• Hands-on operation of identity platforms — deployment, upgrade, patching, HA/DR and performance tuning for SailPoint, Saviynt, Okta or Entra ID. 
• Secrets management and machine/workload identity: HashiCorp Vault or cloud KMS, service-account governance, and PKI and certificate lifecycle management. 
• Security controls and audit evidence: CIS benchmarks, system hardening, vulnerability and patch management, and mapping platform controls to NIST 800-53, SOC 2, ISO 27001 or SOX ITGC. 
• Understanding of the identity domain the platform serves — provisioning, aggregation, certification and federation — sufficient to design environments and pipelines that fit how IGA actually behaves. 
• Director-level client interface and experience managing distributed US/India teams across time zones. 

Salary Range

$200k - $230k USD

This is a full-time opportunity with Gruve.

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