DevOps Specialist

- We expect you to own key stages of our DevOps Playbook pipeline, including In Review and Committed, while maintaining strict process discipline. - We expect you to co-score tasks with the CTO using the RICE framework before commitment decisions are made. - We expect you to classify changes using our CAB model, including Standard, Normal, Normal with CTO Review, and Emergency categories. - We expect you to break committed parent tasks into sprint-sized subitems and route them into the correct readiness, time-blocking, or design-blocking paths. - We expect you to enforce completeness checks so tasks cannot advance without required metadata, business context, prioritization, and scoring. - We expect you to manage icebox items carefully, including documenting blockers and resolution paths. - We expect you to oversee the full sprint lifecycle from requirements gathering through planning, execution, review, testing, release readiness, deployment, and completion. - We expect you to prioritize sprint work by urgency and RICE score, keeping the queue properly sequenced. - We expect you to coordinate engineer assignments and track estimated hours against actual effort across active work items. - We expect you to manage delayed work, maintain hold status, and escalate items that remain stalled beyond defined thresholds. - We expect you to conduct technical peer review for qualifying change types during the review stage. - We expect you to own release readiness, including deployment notes, rollback planning, change window scheduling, and stakeholder communications. - We expect you to run production smoke tests after deployment and confirm system stability before marking work as released. - We expect you to maintain rollback snapshots before grooming sessions and other high-risk activities. - We expect you to enforce UAT sign-off requirements based on change classification. - We expect you to configure and maintain Wrike automation, workflow rules, folder entry logic, and aging alerts. - We expect you to maintain and expand our Python-based Wrike integration for reporting, task operations, and snapshot and rollback support. - We expect you to manage Google Tag Manager, GA4, and Search Console deployments across our brands. - We expect you to support Shopify app integrations, CI/CD health, and platform monitoring across our technology stack. - We expect you to co-facilitate our weekly Monday backlog grooming session with the CTO and come prepared with the necessary data. - We expect you to prepare pre-grooming snapshots, stage counts, and issue flags before each meeting. - We expect you to maintain DevOps runbooks and stage-definition documentation in our GitHub repository. - We expect you to produce weekly health reports covering pipeline counts, stale items, missing assignees, and status integrity issues. - We expect you to own the post-mortem process and ensure completed work includes retrospective notes before archival.