Full-Time
Director DevOps
Updated on 8/23/2026
Verra Mobility
1,001-5,000 employees
Smart transportation technology and safety solutions
No salary listed
No H1B Sponsorship
Mesa, AZ, USA
Hybrid
Three days on-site per week required.
Bachelor's
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- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- At least 10 years of progressive engineering experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Release Engineering, including at least 4 years in a leadership role directly managing senior engineers.
- Recent hands-on technical contribution in leadership roles, including the ability to work in a terminal, open pull requests, and ship code.
- Experience operating delivery pipelines and production systems at scale across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and on-premises environments.
- Deep expertise in Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, including pipeline-as-code authoring, reusable templates, and self-hosted runner management.
- Working knowledge of container build, registry, and deployment workflows using Docker, Azure Container Registry, Amazon Elastic Container Registry, or Harbor, and Kubernetes-based deployments using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, Azure Kubernetes Service, or self-managed Kubernetes.
- Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, including CloudFormation templates and Terraform.
- Strong scripting and programming skills in at least two of Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell, or TypeScript/JavaScript.
- Experience implementing observability tooling such as Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Azure Monitor, or CloudWatch.
- Experience leading production incident response and improving mean time to recovery, change failure rate, and service-level objective attainment.
- Experience supporting SOC 2, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP compliance, including engineering evidence for external audits.
- Clear, concise written communication and comfort engaging with executives, external customers, design reviews, and incident bridges.
- Successful completion of the Nlets fingerprinting background assessment.
- Ability to commute to the office three days per week.
- Lead and directly contribute to CI/CD pipelines, release automation, deployment tooling, and observability instrumentation.
- Own the technical direction for CI/CD, release engineering, and Site Reliability Engineering practices across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and on-premises workloads.
- Review designs, pull requests, and significant pipeline or automation changes, and improve technical quality through feedback and pairing.
- Set and enforce engineering standards for pipeline-as-code, branching, deployment, and observability patterns.
- Directly manage senior DevOps engineers and Site Reliability Engineers, including hiring, performance management, growth, and compensation.
- Build a small senior team with shared leadership, autonomy, and clear ownership.
- Establish operational excellence, blameless learning, written communication, and disciplined engineering practices.
- Manage the on-call rotation as a participant when needed and ensure sustainable paging volume and post-incident follow-through.
- Own the end-to-end CI/CD platform for hundreds of microservices and applications, including pipeline-as-code standards, build artifacts, container images, and deployment automation.
- Improve DORA metrics, including deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, and time to restore service.
- Standardize branching strategies, release patterns, rollback procedures, and pre-production validation gates.
- Partner with Quality Engineering to embed automated unit, integration, contract, performance, and security testing into pipelines.
- Own production availability and performance, define service-level objectives and error budgets, and drive accountability for them.
- Serve as incident commander for high-severity production events, lead root-cause analysis, and ensure corrective actions are delivered.
- Own delivery observability through metrics, logs, traces, and synthetic monitoring.
- Champion chaos engineering, game days, and disaster recovery testing for hybrid systems.
- Embed shift-left security into pipelines, including static application security testing, dynamic application security testing, software composition analysis, container and Infrastructure-as-Code scanning, secrets management, signed artifacts, and supply-chain controls.
- Manage secrets, certificates, and pipeline identity with Cloud Engineering and Information Security.
- Ensure pipeline and release controls satisfy applicable compliance requirements and own engineering evidence for external audits.
- Own and communicate a 12–18 month DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering roadmap.
- Measure and improve developer experience, including time to first deploy, build and deploy times, friction, and toil.
- Modernize legacy build, release, and deployment patterns and retire or consolidate redundant tooling.
- Translate DevOps investments into DORA, service-level objective, and developer-experience outcomes for executive leadership.
- Partner with Cloud Engineering, Software Engineering, Architecture, Product, Information Security, sales, customer success, and customers on delivery reliability, security, roadmap, and commitments.
- Within 90 days, produce a current-state assessment and prioritized roadmap for CI/CD, release, observability, and on-call practices.
- Within 6 months, contribute technically to the hardest delivery problems, standardize pipeline patterns, document service-level objectives, and mature incident response.
- Within 12 months, improve DORA metrics and service-level objective attainment, reduce mean time to recovery, develop the team, and establish a clear partnership model with Cloud Engineering.
- Experience in mobility, transportation, tolling, parking, fleet, or high-volume transaction-processing or Internet of Things-adjacent industries.
- Experience leading large-scale CI/CD consolidation or modernization, such as Jenkins-to-GitHub Actions or monolithic-pipeline-to-pipeline-as-code migrations.
- Experience operating modern microservices and legacy applications under a unified delivery practice.
- Familiarity with progressive delivery tools such as Argo CD, Flux, Spinnaker, LaunchDarkly, or Unleash, and GitOps patterns.
- Active participation in the engineering community through writing, conference speaking, open-source contribution, or industry advisory roles.
Verra Mobility provides technology solutions for smart transportation, helping cities, fleets, and rental companies make roads safer and more efficient. Its offerings include hardware and software for programs like school bus stop-arm cameras, fleet management, and data analytics. The system typically combines cameras and sensors with software to monitor traffic events, enforce laws, and optimize operations; customers install the technology, receive ongoing maintenance, and access analytics to improve transportation systems. The company distinguishes itself through a global footprint (over 15 countries), a diverse client base (government agencies, commercial fleets, rental car companies), and multiple revenue streams from sales, installation, maintenance, and data services, along with partnerships within the smart mobility ecosystem. The overall goal is to reduce traffic incidents, improve driver behavior, and create safer, more connected transportation networks.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Mesa, Arizona
Founded
1987
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- August 5, 2026 Q2 revenue hit $263.6 million, up 12% year over year.
- Verra renewed Avis for seven years and Hertz for five years on August 5, 2026.
- Los Angeles and five California cities selected Verra for automated speed-safety programs in 2026.
What critics are saying
- Avis terminated its contract on May 26, 2026, slashing Commercial Services economics.
- David Roberts departed on June 1, 2026, leaving Jon Keyser as interim CEO.
- A securities class action filed in 2026 attacks disclosure practices and could drag through 2027.
What makes Verra Mobility unique
- NYC DOT finalized a five-year, $998 million renewal on February 11, 2026.
- Verra Mobility processes tolls and violations at scale across 8.5 million vehicles.
- Red-light, speed, and bus-lane camera networks create sticky, jurisdiction-specific switching costs.
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↑ 6%Verra Mobility reported second quarter results that beat analyst estimates, with revenue of $263.6 million and adjusted earnings per share of $0.38. However, the company significantly lowered its full-year guidance, cutting revenue expectations to $955 million from $1.03 billion and reducing adjusted EPS guidance by 15.6%. Interim CEO Jon Keyser cited new multi-year agreements with Avis Budget Group and Hertz as critical to stabilising the business, though he acknowledged the contracts were executed at lower pricing levels than existing relationships. This weighed on profitability, with operating margin declining to -12.4% from 26.8% year-on-year. CFO Craig Conti confirmed the renewed contracts are on less favourable terms, with customers able to modulate fleet volumes. Management indicated commercial margins will remain pressured near term whilst cost optimisation efforts continue.
Verra Mobility reported Q2 2026 revenue growth across key segments, with government solutions service revenue up 17%, commercial services up 6%, and parking solutions up about 1%. The company posted adjusted EBITDA of $111 million and adjusted earnings per share of $0.38, up from $0.34 in Q2 2025. The quarter included a $104 million non-cash goodwill and intangible asset impairment charge for T2 Systems, resulting in a $48 million GAAP net loss. Despite this, Verra Mobility generated $33 million in free cash flow. The company renewed its contract with Avis Budget Group for seven years and signed a five-year agreement with Hertz. It was also selected as the automated speed safety vendor for Los Angeles and five other California cities. For full-year 2026, Verra Mobility expects revenue of $945 million to $965 million, adjusted EBITDA of $360 million to $370 million, and adjusted EPS of $1.11 to $1.17.
Verra Mobility reported second-quarter revenue of $263.6 million, beating analyst estimates of $254 million and representing 11.7% year-on-year growth. The traffic solutions company also exceeded expectations on adjusted earnings per share at $0.38, compared to the consensus estimate of $0.33. Despite the quarterly beat, Verra Mobility's shares fell 14.6% following the results. The company lowered its full-year revenue guidance to $955 million at the midpoint, down from $1.03 billion and 3.4% below analyst estimates. Management also reduced full-year adjusted EPS guidance to $1.14 at the midpoint, a 15.6% decrease. Operating margin declined to -12.4% from 26.8% in the same quarter last year, whilst free cash flow margin dropped to 12.4% from 17.1%.
Verra Mobility reported second quarter 2026 revenue of $263.6 million, up 12% from $236.0 million in the same period last year. Service revenue grew 10%, driven by 17% growth in Government Solutions and 6% growth in Commercial Services. The company posted a net loss of $48.2 million, or $0.32 per share, compared to net income of $38.6 million in Q2 2025. The loss stemmed primarily from goodwill and intangible asset impairments totalling $104.4 million in the Parking Solutions segment. Adjusted EBITDA reached $110.7 million versus $105.3 million in the prior year period. Free cash flow declined to $32.6 million from $40.3 million. Verra Mobility extended agreements with rental car customers Avis Budget Group and Hertz, though on less favourable terms. The company also won a contract for Los Angeles's speed safety programme.
Beyond Red Light cameras: preventing crashes before they happen. August 3, 2026 Every driver has experienced that split-second moment at an intersection when another vehicle races through a red light. For a moment, everything depends on timing. Unfortunately, those moments can have devastating consequences. Right-angle, or T-bone, collisions remain among the most severe crashes on Australian roads, often resulting in serious injuries or fatalities. While enforcement technology has played an important role in encouraging safer driving, there's an opportunity to go one step further - not just documenting dangerous behaviour after it occurs but preventing crashes before they happen. That's the idea behind Red Light Delay, Verra Mobility's innovative radar-based collision prevention technology. Moving from Detection to Prevention Traditional red light enforcement systems are designed to identify violations after a driver has entered an intersection illegally. Red Light Delay takes a different approach. Using radar technology, the system identifies vehicles that are unlikely to stop safely at a red light. When a potential violation is detected, the technology communicates instantly with the traffic signal controller, extending the all-red phase for cross traffic by a brief moment. That small delay keeps other vehicles - and pedestrians - from entering the intersection during what could have been a serious collision. Instead of reacting after a crash becomes inevitable, Red Light Delay creates an opportunity to prevent it altogether. A Smarter Layer of Intersection Safety Road safety is most effective when multiple technologies work together. Red Light Delay complements Verra Mobility's existing red light enforcement solutions by transforming the moment of detection into a moment of intervention. The technology can also be configured to meet the specific needs of different jurisdictions. For example, it can temporarily delay a pedestrian crossing signal if an approaching vehicle is unlikely to stop, providing an additional layer of protection for vulnerable road users. Because the system is compatible with both new and existing enforcement cameras - or can operate as a standalone solution - it can be integrated into existing road networks with minimal disruption. Supporting Australia's Road Safety Goals Australia's road toll has continued to rise in recent years, highlighting the need for new approaches that address the causes of serious crashes before lives are changed forever. Intersections remain one of the highest-risk environments on the road, making them an ideal place to apply predictive safety technology. By helping prevent high-speed right-angle collisions before they occur, Red Light Delay represents a meaningful shift toward proactive traffic management. It's an example of how intelligent infrastructure can support safer roads while giving transportation agencies greater flexibility in how they protect their communities. Looking Ahead At Verra Mobility, Verra Mobility believe the future of road safety is built on prevention. "Our goal is for prevention-first systems like Red Light Delay to become a standard feature of intersection design across Australia," says Steven Crutchfield, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, International, Verra Mobility. "The impact is clear: safer streets for pedestrians and cyclists, and greater confidence for everyday drivers. Every Australian, wherever they are on the road, should be able to trust that the driver beside them at the red light will not become the reason they don't make it home." As technology continues to evolve, so does its ability to create safer roads. Red Light Delay reflects Verra Mobility's ongoing commitment to helping communities move beyond enforcement alone and toward a future where intelligent technology helps prevent crashes before they happen.