DevOps Engineering Manager

As the DevOps Engineering Manager, you will lead a distributed team of DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers to build, scale, and secure our cloud infrastructure and CI/CD platforms. This role blends technical depth with strategic leadership driving enterprise-wide DevOps maturity, improving developer experience, and ensuring reliable, secure, and high-performing delivery systems. You ll partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Security leaders to set DevOps roadmaps, define KPIs, and evolve standards for operational excellence, automation, and resilience.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership & Team Management

• Lead, mentor, and develop a global team of DevOps and SRE engineers supporting multiple product pods.
• Define team objectives, KPIs, and professional development goals aligned with business priorities.
• Establish and maintain DevOps and SRE best practices for scalability, availability, and security.
• Partner with the Director of DevOps Engineering on strategic planning, capacity, and roadmap execution.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, learning, and continuous improvement across all engineering teams.

Platform Delivery & Enablement

• Oversee enterprise-wide CI/CD pipeline strategy and implementation (AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Drive infrastructure automation using IaC frameworks such as Terraform, Ansible, and Pulumi.
• Ensure platform scalability and reliability to support high-velocity software delivery.
• Champion observability, monitoring, and automated recovery capabilities across services.

Cloud Operations & Security

• Own and optimize AWS and other cloud environments to ensure optimal cost, performance, and compliance.
• Partner with Security Engineering to embed DevSecOps practices into pipelines and infrastructure.
• Oversee IAM, vulnerability management, and configuration governance.
• Guide the adoption of multi-cloud readiness strategies where business needs dictate.

Cross-Functional Partnership & Governance

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering leaders to improve release quality, velocity, and automation coverage.
• Co-own release governance, operational standards, and incident response frameworks.
• Contribute to architecture and design discussions related to reliability, scalability, and cloud modernization.
• Translate technical improvements into measurable business impact through data-driven KPIs.

Technical Execution (Hands-On 25%)

• Contribute to critical design, automation, and reliability initiatives as needed.
• Review infrastructure and pipeline code, architecture proposals, and automation frameworks.
• Serve as technical escalation for complex cloud and CI/CD issues.Qualifications

Required Skills & Experience:

• 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering, including 2+ years in leadership roles.
• Proven experience leading distributed engineering teams and cross-functional delivery efforts.
• Strong experience with:
  • CI/CD Tools: AWS Codepipeline, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, or Travis
  • Containers: Docker (Kubernetes a plus)
  • IaC & Automation: Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or Pulumi
  • Cloud: AWS services such as ECS, EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Lambda, CloudFront
  • Version Control: Git/GitHub
  • Scripting: Python (required), Bash
  • Vulnerability Scanning: AWS Inspector, Tenable Nessus
  • Secrets & Access Management: HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Delinea Secret Server
  • Static/Dynamic Code & Pipeline Security: SonarQube, Veracode, Qualys, GitHub Code Security
  • Compliance & Cloud Security Posture: AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, CrowdStrike, Splunk
• Proven knowledge of:
  • Security and compliance in cloud environments
  • Experience implementing observability solutions (metrics, logs, traces)
  • Linux systems administration
  • Networking fundamentals
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering, security, and product teams