Sr. DevOps Manager

Zeitview • San Francisco, CA

1d • Remote

About The Position

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineering Manager who combines strong people leadership with deep hands-on technical expertise. This role is intentionally split: approximately 50% people and delivery leadership, and 50% hands-on DevOps engineering. You will lead and grow a DevOps/SRE organization while actively designing, building, and operating the infrastructure, platforms, and tooling that power our engineering teams. This is a critical role for someone who enjoys staying close to the technology while scaling teams, systems, and operational excellence

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering.
• 4+ years of experience managing and growing engineering teams.
• Experience writing IaC 3+ years
• Well versed in the AWS services and resources
• Strong hands-on experience with modern cloud platforms and DevOps tooling.
• Proven ability to balance strategic leadership with deep technical execution.
• Experience supporting high-availability, production-grade systems.
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence across teams and leadership levels.
• Experience leading DevOps/SRE teams in a scaling or high-growth environment.
• Experience with the following technologies Terraform (Terragrunt) Gitops (ArgoCD) Atlantis Kubernetes Docker Grafana Prometheus PostgreSQL ElasticSearch

Nice To Haves

• Background working with global or distributed teams.
• Prior experience owning production on-call and incident response at scale.
• ML/Computer Vision experience

Responsibilities

• People Management & Leadership (≈50%) Lead, mentor, and grow a team of DevOps and SRE engineers, including performance management, coaching, career development, and hiring.
• Establish clear goals, expectations, and success metrics for the team; own and track team OKRs.
• Foster a culture of operational excellence, ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Partner closely with Engineering, Platform, Security, IT, and Product leaders to align infrastructure strategy with business and product goals.
• Perform capacity planning, workload prioritization, and on-call rotations to ensure sustainable team operations.
• Act as an escalation point for major incidents and drive actionable postmortems and systemic improvements.
• Hands-On DevOps Engineering (≈50%) Actively design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS/GCP/Azure) using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, etc.).
• Architect and operate CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, safe, and reliable software delivery.
• Lead hands-on efforts in reliability, scalability, performance, security, and cost optimization.
• Drive improvements in observability (logging, metrics, tracing), alerting, and incident response.
• Work directly in production systems, including participating in on-call rotations when necessary.
• Partner with application and platform teams to improve developer experience, deployment patterns, and operational readiness.
• Evaluate, introduce, and standardize DevOps tools and practices across the organization.

Benefits

• Feel great about your work as you join a leading mission-driven intelligent aerial imaging company - our goal is to accelerate the global transition to renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure, and you personally will play a large part in making this happen!
• Competitive salary, annual bonus and equity
• Your choice of multiple medical insurance plans, including options with an HSA and 100% coverage of the premium for yourself and your dependents
• 100% paid dental and vision insurance
• Unlimited PTO: We mean it when we say we prioritize work-life balance and mental health
• Work-from-home environment: flexibility for employees should be the norm for companies
• Autonomy and upward mobility
• Diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture: a place where your voice matters

What This Job Offers

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