Senior Manager, Infrastructure
About The Position
Rightway is hiring a Senior Manager, Infrastructure to lead the team responsible for building and operating the platform underlying its products. The platform runs on AWS and Amazon EKS, is defined in Terraform and Helm, and is deployed through Bitbucket Pipelines and Argo CD. It handles protected health information for employers, health plans, and their members. This is a player-coach role combining people management and hands-on engineering. The Senior Manager will manage a small team of infrastructure engineers, own the team’s backlog and delivery commitments, and partner with security, compliance, data, and product engineering leaders to set priorities. The role also writes infrastructure code and owns the platform end to end. Rightway describes its engineering team as AI-native, using AI tools daily in its development workflow. Leaders are expected to model effective use, establish best practices, and help their teams improve their use of these tools.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience in infrastructure, platform, DevOps, or SRE roles.
- At least 2 years managing engineers or leading a team with real responsibility for people and delivery.
- Deep, current hands-on experience with AWS, including multi-account environments, networking, and IAM.
- Strong production Kubernetes experience, ideally with EKS.
- Strong Terraform skills, including reusable modules and safe state management.
- Experience building and owning CI/CD across many services.
- Ability to write code in at least one of TypeScript, Python, or Go.
- Experience in a regulated environment such as HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 1 or SOC 2, or PCI.
- Ability to run a backlog and explain tradeoffs to stakeholders.
- Clear written communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Argo CD, Kafka on MSK, or Redshift and dbt infrastructure.
- Cloud cost management and FinOps experience.
- Multi-region architecture experience on AWS.
- Disaster recovery design and testing experience.
- Familiarity with healthcare systems or handling sensitive data.
- Startup or fast-paced product experience.
- Experience leading AI-assisted infrastructure workflows and establishing team standards around AI tooling.
Responsibilities
- Manage, coach, and grow a team of infrastructure engineers.
- Own the infrastructure backlog, including intake, prioritization, sequencing, and delivery commitments.
- Partner with security, compliance, data, and product engineering to set priorities and make tradeoffs visible.
- Own the AWS environment, EKS clusters, and GitOps deployment with Argo CD.
- Write and review Terraform, Helm, and pipeline code, especially for high-risk work.
- Own the CI/CD platform that builds, tests, and promotes every service to production.
- Own the managed data tier in collaboration with the teams that use it, including Postgres, Redis, Kafka, and warehouse infrastructure.
- Build security and compliance controls into the platform and support HITRUST, SOC, and enterprise client security reviews.
- Own platform backup, disaster recovery, and observability.
- Run the platform on-call rotation, with the team handling initial incident response.
- Model effective use of AI tooling, establish team best practices, and help the team improve its AI-assisted workflows.
Benefits
- Annual compensation of $160,000–$220,000, in addition to bonus and equity.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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