Vice President - DevSecOps & Automation Engineering

What You Need To Know

Shape a remarkable future with us. Build a career working for an industry leader that truly invests in their people – and equips them with leading technology, continuous learning, and the ability to bring their best selves to work. As the premier wine and spirits distributor, Southern Glazer’s isn't just one of Forbes’ Top Private Companies; it's a family-owned business with deep roots dating back to 1933.

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By joining Southern Glazer’s, you would be part of a team that values excellence, innovation, and community. This is more than just a job – it's an opportunity to build the future of beverage distribution and grow with a company that truly cares about its people.

Overview

Do you love building secure, automated, and reliable platforms that let product teams ship faster with confidence? SGWS is scaling a modern engineering ecosystem across Azure and AWS. We’re looking for a senior technology leader to own the strategy and execution of DevSecOps and Automation Engineering—driving platform capabilities (CI/CD, IaC, secrets, policy-as-code), software supply chain security, observability, and reliability practices across a diverse digital portfolio. You will design the systems, standards, and operating models that enable dozens of product teams to deliver business value safely, repeatably, and at scale, while cultivating a high-performing, learning-oriented engineering culture.

Primary Responsibilities

Scope

• Own the enterprise DevSecOps & Automation strategy and evolve the operating model, standards, and platform capabilities that serve multiple product groups across the portfolio.
• Lead an organization of people leaders and senior ICs delivering CI/CD, IaC, cloud platform enablement, and security automation for 60–120+ engineers through platform teams and communities of practice.
• Define and govern golden paths for build/test/release, environment provisioning, observability, and incident management; ensure friction-free adoption by product teams.

Impact

• Set 1–2 year vision and quarterly objectives for DevSecOps and automation; align with Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Product leadership to drive portfolio outcomes.
• Improve delivery speed and stability via measurable engineering metrics (e.g., DORA/flow) and reliability measures (SLOs/error budgets) with transparent reporting to stakeholders.
• Ensure designs and solutions comply with SGWS architecture & engineering standards and are right-sized for risk.

DevSecOps & Platform Engineering

• Build and operate shared platform services: source control, pipelines, artifact repositories, secret stores, image registries, policy engines, scanning services, and self-service environments.
• Establish policy-as-code and pipeline compliance gates for security, privacy, and quality; manage exceptions with time-boxed risk acceptance and remediation.
• Lead the software supply chain security program (SBOM, signing, provenance, dependency governance) and coordinate with GRC for audit readiness.
• Partner with SRE leads to standardize observability, incident response, and post-incident learning across products.

Automation Engineering

• Drive end-to-end automation across build, test, deploy, and run, including test automation strategies, environment automation, and toil elimination.
• Curate reusable reference implementations and templates (infra, pipelines, service scaffolds) to accelerate product teams and reduce variability.

Leadership

• Drive end-to-end automation across build, test, deploy, and run, including test automation strategies, environment automation, and toil elimination.
• Curate reusable reference implementations and templates (infra, pipelines, service scaffolds) to accelerate product teams and reduce variability.
• Build, coach, and retain diverse, high-performing teams; develop leaders of leaders and senior ICs; grow the internal talent pipeline.
• Chair or sponsor Communities of Practice for platform, reliability, and secure development; scale influence through enablement programs.

Strategic Contribution

• Translate business strategy into platform roadmaps and investment cases; sequence outcomes to maximize value while reducing risk.
• Evaluate and govern build/partner/buy decisions, vendor performance, and total cost of ownership for platform capabilities.

Delivery & Operational Excellence

• Ensure operational readiness and reliability for shared services (capacity planning, DR, runbooks, SLAs).
• Lead major incident response as executive escalation point and drive a blameless learning culture.

Personal Development

• Model continuous learning; sponsor certification paths and internal upskilling programs aligned to SGWS job family expectations.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years in software/platform engineering with 7+ years leading DevOps/DevSecOps/SRE/platform teams; experience leading multiple managers and cross-portfolio initiatives.
• Proven success implementing enterprise CI/CD, IaC at scale, and security automation across hybrid cloud environments.
• Track record improving engineering throughput and reliability using metrics (e.g., DORA, SLOs) and driving adoption across many teams.
• Excellent communication with senior executives and technical audiences; strong stakeholder and change management skills.
• Cloud & Platform: Azure and AWS services; landing zone architectures; container orchestration (AKS/EKS), serverless, and edge services.
• CI/CD & Automation: We use Harness but familiarity with any of the following is relevant: GitHub/GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps; trunk-based development; progressive delivery (feature flags, blue/green, canary); pipeline compliance gates.
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (preferred), Bicep/CloudFormation; environment provisioning; drift detection; multi-account/multi-subscription governance.
• Security by Design: SAST, DAST, SCA, container/image scanning, SBOM, secrets management (Key Vault/Secrets Manager), signed builds, provenance/attestations, policy-as-code (e.g., OPA/Conftest).
• Software Supply Chain: Dependency hygiene, vulnerability management, remediation SLAs, secure artifact registries, license compliance.
• Observability & Reliability: Centralized logging, metrics, tracing; SLIs/SLOs/error budgets; synthetic monitoring; incident command and post-incident review.
• Data Protection & Compliance: Zero trust principles; encryption, tokenization, data classification; alignment to SOC2/ISO standards in partnership with GRC.
• Automation at Scale: Event-driven orchestration, workflow automation, ChatOps, self-service portals, golden paths/templates, and reusable reference architectures.
• Leadership Toolkit: Engineering metrics (DORA/flow), org health measures, financial stewardship, vendor management, and leadership across multiple product groups.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a relevant field.
• Hands-on leadership with GitHub Enterprise/Azure DevOps, Terraform, Kubernetes, and cloud security controls.
• Experience with software supply chain frameworks (e.g., SLSA), regulated environments, and external audits (SOC 2/ISO 27001).
• Background building platform products and developer experience programs (DX).

Working Conditions & Additional Information

• Location: Hybrid
• Travel: 10–20% for cross-site collaboration and leadership forums
• Work Schedule: Flexible; availability for leadership meetings and critical incidents as needed
• On-Call: Not typically in rotation; serves as executive escalation point

Physical Demands

• Physical demands with activity or condition for a considerable amount of time include sitting and typing/keyboarding using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor) or mobile device
• Physical demands with activity or condition may occasionally include walking, bending, reaching, standing, and stooping
• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. SGWS complies with all federal, state and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicant's arrest and/or criminal conviction records. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.

If you have any questions or concerns about whether this posting complies/adheres with local pay transparency requirements, please contact the SGWS talent acquisition team at [email protected]

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