What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Manager, DevOps position at Planet DDS?
About Us
Planet DDS is a dynamic and rapidly growing dental software company, serving over 13,000 practices across the United States with over 118,000 users. The company delivers a complete platform of cloud-based SaaS solutions for dental practices, including Denticon Practice Management, Apteryx Imaging, Cloud 9 Ortho Practice Management, and Legwork Patient Relationship Management. Planet DDS is committed to creating value for its dental practice clients by solving the most urgent challenges facing today’s dental practices.
This is a hybrid role working 2x per week in one of our office locations (Irvine, CA | Phoenix, AZ | Atlanta, GA | Akron, OH)
Job Description
Are you passionate about cloud infrastructure? Are you a hands-on leader who loves getting deep into the weeds as much as building a strong team of competent engineers? Then this role be for you.
We are looking for a leader to own the DevOps charter for Planet DDS. This is a highly visible and influential role with opportunity to work with the engineering leadership across the company. You will lead a distributed team in US and UK that currently supports our applications built on top of Azure, AWS and GCP. You will manage vendor relationships for these cloud vendors. You will drive efficiency across the engineering organization by optimizing cloud spend and influencing the architecture along the way.
Responsibilities
Why are we here?
Unleashing dentists and their staff to focus on patient care.
Where are we headed?
In the next 5 years, Planet DDS will remain the leading provider of cloud-based technology solutions in North America, expanding to serve more than 25,000 dental practices.
How do we get there?
To encourage measurable progress toward our vision and make the best decisions on behalf of employees and customers, we adopted a set of common values:
Collaborative – Working independently and across teams, we create scalable solutions to enable company growth
Empathetic – We are educated on the experience of our customers and feel vested in their success
Accountable – We feel ownership for the quality of our work and take pride in the positive outcomes
Trustworthy – We operate with integrity and honest, making promises we know that we can keep
Ambitious – We are driven by our ability to make a long-term, positive impact on the lives of dental market leaders
Planet DDS is a dynamic and rapidly growing dental software company, serving over 13,000 practices across the United States with over 118,000 users. The company delivers a complete platform of cloud-based SaaS solutions for dental practices, including Denticon Practice Management, Apteryx Imaging, Cloud 9 Ortho Practice Management, and Legwork Patient Relationship Management. Planet DDS is committed to creating value for its dental practice clients by solving the most urgent challenges facing today’s dental practices.
This is a hybrid role working 2x per week in one of our office locations (Irvine, CA | Phoenix, AZ | Atlanta, GA | Akron, OH)
Job Description
Are you passionate about cloud infrastructure? Are you a hands-on leader who loves getting deep into the weeds as much as building a strong team of competent engineers? Then this role be for you.
We are looking for a leader to own the DevOps charter for Planet DDS. This is a highly visible and influential role with opportunity to work with the engineering leadership across the company. You will lead a distributed team in US and UK that currently supports our applications built on top of Azure, AWS and GCP. You will manage vendor relationships for these cloud vendors. You will drive efficiency across the engineering organization by optimizing cloud spend and influencing the architecture along the way.
Responsibilities
- Lead the DevOps team
- Drive FinOps charter across the company
- Build and execute on a roadmap of initiatives to optimize cloud spend
- Build and execute on a roadmap to build a highly scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure
- Build and execute roadmap of features to support the engineering organization for upcoming feature launches
- Establish and maintain best practices for cloud security, compliance, and cost optimization.
- Design, develop and maintain infrastructure using infrastructure as code tools
- Participate in code and design reviews to ensure the quality and maintainability of code.
- Minimum 7 years of hands-on experience with Azure (required), AWS and GCP (preferred)
- Minimum 3 years of experience of leading a distributed team of infrastructure engineers
- Deep experience with FinOps and cost optimization
- Understanding of distributed system architecture
- Strong executor with ability to get things done
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.
Why are we here?
Unleashing dentists and their staff to focus on patient care.
Where are we headed?
In the next 5 years, Planet DDS will remain the leading provider of cloud-based technology solutions in North America, expanding to serve more than 25,000 dental practices.
How do we get there?
To encourage measurable progress toward our vision and make the best decisions on behalf of employees and customers, we adopted a set of common values:
Collaborative – Working independently and across teams, we create scalable solutions to enable company growth
Empathetic – We are educated on the experience of our customers and feel vested in their success
Accountable – We feel ownership for the quality of our work and take pride in the positive outcomes
Trustworthy – We operate with integrity and honest, making promises we know that we can keep
Ambitious – We are driven by our ability to make a long-term, positive impact on the lives of dental market leaders
Salary : $168,000