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Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits · 1 day ago

Vice President - DevSecOps & Automation Engineering

Hollywood, FL

Full-time

Hybrid

Director/Executive

12+ years exp

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits is a premier wine and spirits distributor that values excellence, innovation, and community. They are seeking a senior technology leader to own the strategy and execution of DevSecOps and Automation Engineering, driving platform capabilities and cultivating a high-performing engineering culture.

Wine & Spirits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Qualification

DevSecOps strategyCI/CD implementationInfrastructure as CodeCloud platformsSecurity automationSoftware supply chain securityObservability practicesLeadership skillsStakeholder managementChange managementCommunicationContinuous learning

Required

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

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)

Benefits

Comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage

Dental and vision plans

Tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts

Disability coverage

Life insurance plans

401(k) plan

Tuition assistance

Wellness program

Parental leave

Vacation accrual

Paid sick leave

Company

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits

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Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is the world’s pre-eminent distributor of beverage alcohol, and proud to be a multi-generational, family-owned company.

Founded in 1968

Miami, Florida, US

10001+ employees

https://www.southernglazers.com/careers

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