Assoc. Director of Development Operations (Tech)

Location: Cambodia
Type: Full-time
Sector: IT & Communication
Salary: US$5,000 – US$6,000

Summary:
The Associate Director of DevOps will be responsible for setting and executing engineering strategy across DevOps, Mobile Engineering, and QA. You will oversee modernizing legacy systems, lead cross-functional teams, and drive technology alignment with business objectives. This is a hands-on, influential leadership role focused on developing teams and ensuring engineering best practices, scalability, and modernization.

Main Responsibilities:
• Shape and deliver the end-to-end engineering strategy to support business and product goals.
• Lead DevOps, Mobile, and QA teams through high-performance, accountability, and technological change.
• Direct senior managers such as the Head of DevOps to maintain alignment across teams.
• Drive legacy system modernization, including migration to scalable, maintainable, cloud-native microservices.
• Push adoption of OpenStack and open infrastructure tools.
• Set engineering standards, governance, and best practices.
• Oversee the full software lifecycle, CI/CD, automated testing, and advanced deployment methods like blue-green and canary releases.
• Champion microservices architecture and domain-driven design.
• Ensure high scalability and system performance for growing workloads.
• Define and implement system scaling, load balancing, and optimization strategies.
• Promote AI-based development tools such as Copilot, Claude, and Cursor.
• Collaborate closely with DevOps for reliable, automated infrastructure.
• Oversee architectural decisions for distributed and microservices environments.
• Monitor and report on key engineering KPIs including deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR, and change failure rate.
• Maintain strong communication within engineering, product, QA, and DevOps teams.
• Lead recruitment, mentoring, and development of engineering leadership and senior engineers.
• Manage team capacity planning, prioritization, and strategic resource allocation.
• Embed security, compliance, and reliability throughout engineering processes.

Required Qualifications:
• 10+ years in software engineering, including significant technical leadership.
• History of managing DevOps, QA, and/or Platform teams at a senior level.
• Experience modernizing and migrating legacy environments.
• Expertise in distributed systems, microservices, and system scalability.
• Strong skills with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Advanced knowledge of CI/CD, automated testing, and varied deployment techniques.
• Proven ability to establish engineering standards and governance frameworks.
• Experienced with Copilot, Claude, or Cursor for AI-assisted development.
• Proficient in C#, .NET, Python, Go, or Java.
• Strong understanding of OpenStack and open-source infrastructure solutions.
• Cloud platform and core infrastructure knowledge.
• Solid software engineering and QA best practice background.
• Skilled in building and scaling large engineering teams and complex systems.
• Excellent leadership and communication abilities.
• Good grasp of SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and reliability engineering.
• Familiar with DevSecOps practices and modern security standards.
• Knowledge of both SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Systems thinker, able to clarify complex environments.
• Proven success in high-scale, fast-paced settings.
• Cost-optimization experience is a plus.

About the Company:
Our client is an award-winning company at the forefront of banking innovation in Cambodia, offering a broad array of personal and business financial solutions. They lead in digital services and support users through an extensive network, with a commitment to financial accessibility and technological advancement.

Originally posted on Himalayas