Engineering Manager - DevOps
About The Position
LiveData is seeking an Engineering Manager for DevOps to lead and enhance its DevOps function. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will manage a team of two DevOps engineers and collaborate with software engineering, QA, security, and leadership to boost delivery speed, reliability, observability, security, and AWS cost efficiency. The role involves making architectural decisions, reviewing infrastructure changes, shaping CI/CD workflows, guiding incident response, and pragmatically solving production and platform issues within an AWS-first, serverless-first environment that prioritizes automation, infrastructure as code, and managed services.
Requirements
- 6+ years in DevOps, platform, SRE, or infrastructure engineering.
- 2+ years leading engineers directly or serving as technical lead for a small DevOps/platform team.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS in production environments.
- Experience building and improving CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code.
- Proven track record operating production systems with a focus on reliability, observability, and incident response.
- Experience with cloud security fundamentals, secrets management, identity and access control, and secure deployment practices.
- Strong working knowledge of Linux, networking fundamentals, and shell-based troubleshooting.
- Experience with scripting or software development in Python, Bash, or similar languages.
- Ability to review and refine AI-generated code or configuration using sound engineering judgment.
- Clear communication skills and the ability to work effectively across engineering, leadership, and non-technical stakeholders.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in healthcare or another regulated environment.
- Experience with serverless AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, EventBridge, RDS, or Aurora.
- Experience with AWS CDK, Terraform, or similar infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Familiarity with compliance-minded engineering practices (auditability, access review, logging and retention controls, change management).
- Experience improving developer experience for small engineering teams.
- Familiarity with PostgreSQL, application performance monitoring, and AWS cost optimization.
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools and workflows.
- Experience supporting remote engineering teams and coordinating operational work across time zones.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of two DevOps engineers.
- Own the health and maturity of the DevOps function: infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and release processes.
- Define and execute a DevOps roadmap aligned with engineering and business goals.
- Partner with software engineers to improve developer experience and deployment reliability.
- Strengthen infrastructure as code, automation standards, and operational runbooks.
- Oversee production operations: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and root cause analysis.
- Drive reliability, availability, backup and recovery readiness, and disaster recovery planning.
- Guide secure infrastructure and delivery practices in collaboration with security and engineering leadership.
- Manage and optimize AWS usage with attention to scalability, resilience, and cost.
- Track and report key operational metrics (e.g., deployment frequency, change failure rate, availability, mean time to recovery, cloud spend).
- Help evaluate tooling and vendor choices appropriate for a small engineering organization.
- Support future hiring and growth of the DevOps function.
- Use AI coding assistants and automation tools as part of daily workflows.
Benefits
- Competitive salary commensurate with experience.
- Generous health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Employer-matched 401(k).
- Paid time off.
- Remote work flexibility.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
