• Own the entire Laboratory Operations Software release process execution, ensuring smooth and timely software releases with minimal downtime. • Continuously monitor the effectiveness of the release process and implement improvements to increase efficiency, reduce errors, and enhance overall quality. • Act as an internal consultant and subject matter expert, coaching individual product teams on best-in-class DevOps practices, including infrastructure-as-code (IaC), monitoring, logging, and security integration. • Embed with development teams to assess and improve DevOps maturity, delivery practices, and operational readiness. • Design and implement a variety of projects to support extreme growth of complexity of applications as well as to enable innovation. • Provide hands-on guidance in CI/CD, cloud infrastructure usage, Kubernetes operations, and observability. • Help teams adopt existing infrastructure, platforms, and tooling provided by central Cloud / Platform teams. • Promote and reinforce technical standards, guardrails, and best practices that allow teams to operate autonomously while remaining compliant and secure. • Guide teams in applying organizational expectations around reliability, security, and cost management through automation rather than manual controls. • Serve as a feedback channel to central platform and cloud teams, sharing adoption challenges and improvement opportunities. • Continuously improve and automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, and testing using tools like Terraform, Kubernetes and CI/CD. • Advocate for automation-first approaches to reduce operational toil and risk. • Partner with teams to define and implement Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and operational dashboards for their services. • Guide teams through incident response, post-incident reviews, and reliability improvements. • Identify systemic reliability issues and escalate platform-level concerns to the appropriate owning teams. • Drive capacity planning and performance tuning activities to ensure scalability and efficiency. • Provide expert-level support for complex infrastructure and deployment issues escalated by the product teams. • Assist teams in root cause analysis and long-term remediation. • Create and maintain clear documentation, runbooks, release process, CI/CD pipelines, and regression testing procedures. • Maintain comprehensive documentation of the release process, CI/CD pipelines, and regression testing procedures. • Share best practices and lessons learned across teams to raise overall DevOps maturity.