Abacus Insights
Senior Engineering Manager – DevOps, Infrastructure & Release Engineering
Rol remoto de DevOps Engineer con fit claro de ubicación del candidato.
Publicado27 jul 2026
Países elegibles1 país aceptado
Señal de seniorityLead, Senior
Modelo de trabajoRemoto
Ubicaciones aceptadas para candidatos
Estados Unidos
Resumen del rol
Senior Engineering Manager – DevOps, Infrastructure & Release Engineering
Requisitos y responsabilidades
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People & Organizational Leadership
- Lead, coach, and grow DevOps, Infrastructure, and Release Engineering teams across geographies
- Establish clear ownership and accountability across CI/CD, environments, and production readiness
- Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, goal setting, and career development planning
- Hire, onboard, and retain senior DevOps and release engineering talent
- Foster a culture of operational ownership, blameless postmortems, and high availability
- Remove systemic blockers so teams can focus on building resilient delivery pipelines—not firefighting
Release Engineering & Delivery Excellence
- Own the release engineering strategy for a SaaS platform supporting frequent, reliable deployments
- Design and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines that support:Trunk‑based or hybrid branching strategiesAutomated testing gates (unit, integration, security, performance)Progressive delivery (feature flags, canaries, blue‑green deployments)
- Trunk‑based or hybrid branching strategies
- Automated testing gates (unit, integration, security, performance)
- Progressive delivery (feature flags, canaries, blue‑green deployments)
- Establish deployment standards, change classification, and risk levels across teams
- Reduce release toil, manual steps, and human error through automation
- Drive improvements in deployment frequency, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery (DORA metrics)
- Ensure consistent release processes across services, platforms, and cloud environment
- Proven experience implementing and operating observability for cloud‑based SaaS platforms, including metrics, logs, traces, and alerting
- Ability to integrate observability into CI/CD and release workflows to enable release confidence, faster incident detection, and reduced MTTR
Details
- Trunk‑based or hybrid branching strategies
- Automated testing gates (unit, integration, security, performance)
- Progressive delivery (feature flags, canaries, blue‑green deployments)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep)
- Secure-by-default deployments
- Policy-as-code and guardrails
- Release engineering principles
- CI/CD automation
- Infrastructure as Code
- DevOps and SRE best practices
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps
- Infrastructure: Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep
- Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
- Release & Governance: Feature flags (LaunchDarkly), change management automation
- Observability: CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
- Security & Compliance: SAST/DAST tools, policy-as-code, secrets management
Technical & Platform Leadership
- Provide technical leadership across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments
- Ensure infrastructure and delivery pipelines follow security, compliance, and cloud best practices
- Partner with Architecture and Security to enforce:Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep)Secure-by-default deploymentsPolicy-as-code and guardrails
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep)
- Secure-by-default deployments
- Policy-as-code and guardrails
- Influence architecture decisions to improve operability, scalability, and release safety
- Guide teams in designing systems that are observable, debuggable, and resilient
- Needs a leader who treats releases as a product, not a task queue
Operational Excellence & Incident Readiness
- Own production readiness standards and release go/no‑go criteria
- Ensure clear incident response processes, escalation paths, and on‑call readiness
- Lead post‑incident reviews with a focus on systemic fixes, not individual mistakes
- Partner with engineering teams to reduce operational load and deployment risk over time
Cross-Functional & Executive Collaboration
- Partner deeply with Product, QE, Security, and Engineering leaders to align on release expectations
- Communicate risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs clearly to senior and executive stakeholders
- Represent DevOps and Release Engineering in customer, partner, and audit conversations as needed
What you bring to the team
- At least 8 years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure roles
- At least 5 years managing engineering managers and/or senior technical teams
- Prior hands‑on experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines for SaaS platforms
- Strong experience with AWS (primary), Azure, GCP.
- Deep understanding of:Release engineering principlesCI/CD automationInfrastructure as CodeDevOps and SRE best practices
- Release engineering principles
- CI/CD automation
- Infrastructure as Code
- DevOps and SRE best practices
- Experience supporting high‑availability, distributed systems in production
- Strong track record improving reliability, deployment safety, and operational maturity
- Excellent communication, decision‑making, and stakeholder management skills
- Must have hands on experience in these key tools and technologies (representative, not exhaustive list):CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOpsInfrastructure: Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/BicepContainers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, HelmRelease & Governance: Feature flags (LaunchDarkly), change management automationObservability: CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetrySecurity & Compliance: SAST/DAST tools, policy-as-code, secrets management
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps
- Infrastructure: Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep
- Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
- Release & Governance: Feature flags (LaunchDarkly), change management automation
- Observability: CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
- Security & Compliance: SAST/DAST tools, policy-as-code, secrets management
- You hold relentlessly high bar for release quality and operational safety
- You know when to slow down to move faster later
- You can say “no” to unsafe releases—and explain why with credibility
- You lead calmly during incidents and decisively after them
- You model accountability, empathy, and engineering excellence in equal measure
What we would like to see, but not required
- Demonstrable hands-on experience adapting to industry trends in automation and efficiency of code generation to modernize DevOps, CloudOps
What you’ll get in return
- Unlimited paid time off – recharge when you need it
- Work from anywhere – flexibility to fit your life
- Comprehensive health coverage – multiple plan options to choose from
- Equity for every employee – share in our success
- Growth-focused environment – your development matters here
- Home office setup allowance – one-time support to get you started
- Monthly cell phone allowance – stay connected with ease#LI-SB1 #LI-Remote
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