Engineering Manager – DevOps

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and cultivate a team of two DevOps engineers.

• Take ownership of the health and advancement of the DevOps function, encompassing infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and release processes.

• Develop and implement a DevOps roadmap that aligns with both engineering and business objectives.

• Collaborate with software engineers to enhance developer experience and deployment reliability.

• Reinforce infrastructure as code, automation standards, and operational runbooks.

• Supervise production operations, including monitoring, alerting, incident response, and root cause analysis.

• Promote reliability, availability, backup and recovery preparedness, and disaster recovery strategies.

• Guide secure infrastructure and delivery practices in conjunction with security and engineering leaders.

• Manage and optimize AWS usage for scalability, resilience, and cost-effectiveness.

• Monitor and report on operational metrics such as deployment frequency, change failure rate, availability, mean time to recovery, and cloud expenditures.

• Assess tooling and vendor options for a small engineering team.

• Assist in future hiring and expansion of the DevOps function.

• Leverage AI coding assistants and automation tools in daily workflows.

• Report directly to the VP of Engineering.

• Work collaboratively with software engineering, QA, security, leadership, and non-technical stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 6 years of experience in DevOps, platform, SRE, or infrastructure engineering.

• At least 2 years of experience leading engineers directly or serving as a technical lead for a small DevOps/platform team.

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS in a production environment.

• Proven track record of building and enhancing CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code.

• Demonstrated experience in operating production systems with a focus on reliability, observability, and incident response.

• Knowledge of cloud security fundamentals, secrets management, identity and access control, and secure deployment practices.

• Solid understanding of Linux, networking fundamentals, and shell-based troubleshooting.

• Experience in scripting or software development using Python, Bash, or similar languages.

• Ability to review and refine AI-generated code or configuration applying sound engineering judgment.

• Excellent communication skills and capability to engage across engineering, leadership, and non-technical stakeholders.

• Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

• Must successfully pass a standard background check and drug test.

• Preferred: experience in healthcare or regulated environments.

• Preferred: familiarity with serverless AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, EventBridge, RDS, or Aurora.

• Preferred: experience with AWS CDK, Terraform, or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.

• Preferred: compliance-focused engineering practices.

• Preferred: improvement of developer experience for small engineering teams.

• Preferred: knowledge of PostgreSQL, application performance monitoring, and AWS cost optimization.

• Preferred: experience with AI-assisted development tools and workflows.

• Preferred: support for remote engineering teams and coordination across time zones.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience.

• Comprehensive health insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• Employer-matched 401(k) plan.

• Paid time off.

• Flexibility for remote work.

• Opportunity to work from anywhere in the U.S.

• In-person team collaborations approximately once per quarter in the Boston area.