DevOps Engineering Manager (REMOTE)

About Roadpass:

Roadpass Digital revolutionizes road-based travel and outdoor tourism through innovative products and services. We aim to empower travelers who love exploring the outdoors and are always ready for their next adventure. Our brands include Roadtrippers and Campendium.

Roadpass makes those experiences more accessible and more memorable by making it easier than ever to hit the road.

We empower travelers and businesses that understand the outdoors are meant to be explored, that roads are meant to be driven, and that your next adventure is right around the corner.

Millions of travelers have discovered the benefits of Roadpass brands and the ability to make it easier to own and maintain recreational vehicles, which help them discover, book, and navigate road trips.

• Roadtrippers is the #1 road trip planning tool. Roadtrippers helps people discover the world around them in an entirely new way by streamlining discovery, planning, booking, and navigation into an engaging and intuitive process.

• Campendium is a camping app that helps traveling families, couples, and soloists find an ideal campsite, verified by an entire community of campers. Features include map overlays for cell coverage and public lands so you can always find the perfect campsite. Campendium is free to use and will change how you find a place to call home for the night.

We value our people and are committed to creating a healthy and fun culture for our team. We're #hiring and looking for talented folks. Let's talk if you want to join a top tech company!

Where You're Located:

Candidates for this role will be based in the United States and work remotely. 

Role Overview:

The DevOps Engineering Manager role directly manages the DevOps team, balancing people leadership with delivery accountability. This role splits time between management and coding. The Engineering Manager is responsible for team growth and execution of company goals while also contributing hands-on at a senior level (or higher). This includes planning and implementing infrastructure and automating infrastructure changes in support of highly-available and scalable services.

Essential Job Functions & Responsibilities include:

• Drives the delivery of company level features and initiatives while prioritizing work alignment with product and business goals
• Continuously monitors deadlines and removes any blockers to ensure delivery at a team level
• Be a hands on member of the team by contributing to code as an independent contributor at a senior level 
• Design, develop and deliver scalable and automated services and architecture
• Architect, design, and implement solutions with native AWS Services and other cloud/managed services as necessary
• Ensure solutions are architected and delivered using best practices and technologies
• Communicate the benefits and drawbacks of infrastructure choices to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Create and apply reusable automation libraries across the company
• Manage centralized monitoring and alerting for infrastructure, and enable developers to extend with application-level monitoring
• Setup infrastructure for easy reporting and accountability across products
• Troubleshoot production issues and perform on-call duties
• Plan and coordinate infrastructure and operations for new projects and acquisitions 
• Monitors, advises and implements solutions to address security and risks for company Infrastructure/Ops
• Evaluate DevOps priorities for the company
• Manages and prioritizes day to day tasks for DevOps team 
• Holds regular 1:1 meetings with direct reports allowing for two way feedback 
• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of DevOps engineers fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement 
• Owns performance reviews, and career growth for direct reports, and actively participates in hiring processes.

Requirements

Education & Work Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in a full time DevOps or SRE role
• 1+ years of experience in a management role with the ability to demonstrate examples of past experience with successful delivery on company goals/initiatives
• 1+ years of experience managing a remote based team preferred
• 5+ years of experience with EKS or similar Kubernetes experience 
• 5+ years of experience with Github Actions
• 5+ years of programming experience (Python, Go or Ruby preferred)
• 5+ years of experience with AWS Services, with Sagemaker experience preferred
• Experience with modern application infrastructure and tooling, like CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes preferred
• Understanding of web development, infrastructure requirements, and scripting languages
• Demonstrated knowledge of infrastructure as code, automation and configuration tools like Terraform (Terragrunt), Ansible
• Experience with Bash
• Experience with DevOps and infrastructure automation, and best practices
• Experience supporting, managing and simplifying configuration and setup of multiple environments for local development and staging environments
• Experience with Linux system administration and command line interface (CLI)
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills 
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and a proactive mindset
• Self-motivated and able to deal with periods of full autonomy while managing a team in a remote work environment
• Strong organization skills with the ability to prioritize and delegate tasks to ensure project goals are met on time

Benefits

• Flexible Time Off & 16 Company Paid Holidays: We believe this is a partnership. We trust our employees to build their own time-off schedules and encourage our teams to take time for their well-being.
• Collaborative & Inclusive Culture: Our employees work in small, self-organized, and cross-functional teams that determine the best tactics to support the vision and strategy set by leadership. We encourage and welcome all ideas, taking an agile approach to creating an amazing product.
• Growth Opportunity: Through hands-on learning and development, the opportunities are endless.
• Focus on Well-Being: We pride ourselves on offering numerous benefit options to fit best the needs of our employees and their families, including domestic partners. Benefits include medical (PPO & HDHP-HSA), dental, vision, flexible spending account, commuter benefit, discount programs, life & disability insurance, and accident insurance. We also offer a 401k program with company match and paid parental leave.

• Live your Passion: We believe in living our mission and vision. As members of our team, our employees enjoy a lifetime subscription to our products. This is in addition to our Work-Detoured benefit, which encourages and reimburses our team to live our brand by enjoying the outdoors.

Roadpass Digital is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive and high-performing workplace culture. We strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply.

Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check in accordance with the applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Interview Process: Roadpass Digital is committed to a fair and equitable hiring process. To ensure the integrity and accuracy of candidate evaluations, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) or other automated tools is not permitted during interviews. Limited use of AI is allowed for technical assignments, if all submitted work reflects the candidates own understanding, skills, and abilities. If AI is used to assist with the technical assignment, the candidate must be prepared to explain how it was used and how its outputs were adapted to meet requirements. Any misuse of AI tools may result in disqualification for consideration.