Platform, DevOps & Data Manager

Sourceability ® is a global digital distributor of electronic components transforming how modern businesses bring products to market. With innovation, quality and logistics as the backbone of the company, Sourceability’s cutting-edge products and services expedite the procurement process across a wide range of industries, including communications/cellular, consumer electronics, and auto manufacturing. Sourceability is building a new Global Engineering Organization (GEO) to strengthen internal software delivery, improve production ownership, and build long-term engineering capability inside the company.

We are looking for a hands-on Platform, DevOps Data Manager to build and lead the function responsible for CI/CD, release discipline, engineering environments, DBA / data platform ownership, monitoring / observability, and production reliability support for GEO engineering teams. This is a functional management role. The Platform, DevOps Data Manager will manage people, capacity, hiring, performance feedback, delivery discipline, standards, escalation, and team structure for DevOps / Platform and DBA / Data Platform resources.

This role will work closely with Software Engineering, Infrastructure Security, Product / Delivery, QA, and business stakeholders to reduce production risk and improve delivery reliability. This role is not only a cloud transformation or modern platform tooling role. The right candidate must be comfortable supporting current business-critical systems, hybrid infrastructure, SQL Server-backed applications, release pipelines, production environments, monitoring gaps, and practical modernization needs.

This role will work hybrid from our Austin, TX office. Insight on Your Impact: Build and manage the Platform, DevOps Data function inside GEO, including team structure, hiring, onboarding, performance feedback, and capacity planning. Own function-level delivery discipline for CI/CD, deployment automation, environment management, DBA / data platform work, monitoring / observability, and release support.

Establish practical standards for builds, deployments, environment promotion, release readiness, monitoring, alerting, backup / recovery coordination, and incident follow-up. Lead DevOps / Platform resources responsible for Azure DevOps pipelines, source control practices, build automation, deployment automation, environment configuration, and developer tooling. Lead DBA / Data Platform resources responsible for SQL Server reliability, performance, backup / recovery, HA / DR support, schema review, data platform support, and production escalation.

Partner with Software Engineering Managers and Product Group Team Leads / Architects to support reliable delivery of SourceCore, NLP, Mobile App / Computer Vision, Legacy PHP, and other internal platforms. Partner with Infrastructure Security leadership on hosting, networking, identity, access, security controls, disaster recovery, monitoring, and production incident response boundaries. Improve visibility into build status, release readiness, environment health, database health, monitoring coverage, and operational risks.

Ensure platform, DevOps, and DBA work is planned, tracked, and reported through agreed delivery tools and processes, including Azure DevOps where applicable. Create practical processes for L2 / L3 triage, escalation, root cause analysis, post-incident remediation, and recurring production risk reduction. Identify single points of failure across release processes, database operations, environments, monitoring, and platform ownership, then build backup coverage and documentation.

Drive improvement in developer experience by reducing manual deployment work, unclear environment ownership, unreliable build processes, and avoidable operational toil. Support data platform needs for reporting, integrations, ETL / ELT, analytics feeds, and internal business systems while keeping production database reliability as the first priority.