Dev Ops Program Manager

Cengage Group
United States
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 101,900 - 163,000 annuallyFunction: Program & Project Management (PMO)Skills: ["Governance","Decision-making","Communication","Coordination","Risk assessment"]

Lead Cengage’s DevOps transformation program, executing an integrated change across Platform Engineering, SRE, FinOps, DevSecOps, and AIOps. Establish governance, decision rights, and demand intake/capacity management to make hidden work visible. Turn the DevOps target operating model into an executable system with clear sequencing, risk control, adoption, and value realization, using executive scorecards tied to DORA, SLO readiness, toil reduction, and service ownership.

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Cengage Group
Cengage Group
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Dev Ops Program Manager

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Job Summary

Lead Cengage’s DevOps transformation program, executing an integrated change across Platform Engineering, SRE, FinOps, DevSecOps, and AIOps. Establish governance, decision rights, and demand intake/capacity management to make hidden work visible. Turn the DevOps target operating model into an executable system with clear sequencing, risk control, adoption, and value realization, using executive scorecards tied to DORA, SLO readiness, toil reduction, and service ownership.
Location: United States
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Program & Project Management (PMO)

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead integrated execution of the DevOps transformation across Platform Engineering, SRE, FinOps, DevSecOps, AIOps, and vendor transition.
  • •Set up governance and a decision cadence using an executive steering committee, working groups, decision logs, and decision rights.
  • •Turn the DevOps target operating model into an executable transformation system with outcomes, sequencing, adoption, risk control, and value realization.
  • •Establish demand intake and capacity management to surface hidden work and protect transformation capacity.
  • •Build executive/operating scorecards and track value realization using metrics such as transition readiness, service ownership, DORA/SLO readiness, incident trends, toil reduction, and risk indicators.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 101,900 - 163,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Demonstrable program management experience, particularly within DevOps or enterprise transformation programs.
  • •Maintain a prioritization model that links work to business outcomes and supports tradeoff decisions across capacity, risk, and sequencing constraints.
  • •Experience running programs for platform, infrastructure, developer experience, or internal technology products, including roadmap ownership and adoption metrics.
  • •Drive service ownership practices with clear owners, readiness expectations, operating standards, and measurable improvement paths.
  • •Proven skills in dependency management, risk assessment, and cutover controls, with experience communicating and coordinating across functions.
Experience:Enterprise transformationDevOpsSRE
Skills:GovernanceDecision-makingCommunicationCoordinationRisk assessment
Tech Stack:FinOpsDevSecOpsAIOpsSREDevOpsDORASLO

Company Brief

Cengage Group
Global education and learning company providing textbooks, digital course materials, online learning platforms, and instructional solutions for higher education, K–12, and workforce training programs.
Industry: Education
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Established Company
Funding: Private Equity Backed
Headquarters: Boston, United States
Founded: 2007
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