Manager, Systems Engineering

VoltaGrid • Houston, TX

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Manager of Systems Engineering to lead a small, high-impact DevOps/SRE team. This is a split role — you'll split your time between hands-on infrastructure work and growing a team of 3-5 engineers. You'll set technical direction for reliability and infrastructure while building a healthy, high-performing team culture.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, with at least 1-2 years in a technical leadership or management capacity
• Demonstrated ability to manage, mentor, and develop engineers
• Strong hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure AWS preferred)
• Production experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent)
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Solid understanding of monitoring, observability, and alerting systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar)
• Strong Linux systems administration background (Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS, or similar)
• Experience with virtualization platforms including VM provisioning, storage, networking, and cluster management
• Strong communication skills — able to translate infrastructure concerns into business impact for non-technical stakeholders
• Experience with incident management, postmortems, and on-call processes

Nice To Haves

• Experience scaling a team through a period of growth
• Background in platform engineering or internal developer experience initiatives
• Experience with budgeting and cost optimization for cloud infrastructure
• Prior experience in a split role balancing IC work and management

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 3-5 DevOps/SRE engineers
• Contribute hands-on to infrastructure design, tooling, and incident response alongside your team
• Set technical direction for cloud infrastructure, on-prem Linux environments, virtualization, deployment pipelines, and reliability practices
• Drive adoption of SLI/SLO frameworks and operational maturity across the engineering organization
• Partner with engineering leadership and product teams on capacity planning, roadmap prioritization, and production readiness
• Own team processes — sprint planning, on-call rotations, postmortem culture, and knowledge sharing
• Hire and onboard new team members as the team grows
• Balance technical debt reduction with feature delivery and reliability investments
• Represent the infrastructure team in cross-functional planning and incident escalations

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed