DevOps Manager

AssetWatch is seeking an experienced hands-on DevOps Manager to lead the evolution of our infrastructure and culture as we scale our AWS-based platform. This role blends strategic leadership, coaching, and technical execution and is critical to moving our DevOps organization from reactive support to proactive ownership. 

You’ll lead a team responsible for reliability, scalability, automation, and security across a modern, event-driven stack. Beyond technical execution, your mission is to build a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement that accelerates delivery and strengthens trust between DevOps, Engineering, and Product. 

Key Responsibilities 

Team Leadership & Culture  

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of DevOps and SRE engineers through clear expectations, accountability, and mentorship. 

• Drive a proactive, ownership-driven mindset — transforming the team from reactive operators to strategic enablers. 

• Build strong relationships with Engineering, QA, and Product to ensure DevOps is involved early (“shift left”) in system design. 

• Establish and enforce best practices around IaC, CI/CD, observability, and security. 

• Create and manage expectations of roadmap for scaling infrastructure, increasing automation, and reducing toil. 

• Drive alignment with company priorities through data-driven metrics (uptime, deployment frequency, recovery time, etc.). 

• Conduct 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations that balance empathy with accountability. 

• Participate in hiring and onboarding as the team grows. 

Hands-On Technical Execution 

• Guide infrastructure architecture and implementation across AWS (Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, Timestream, S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, etc.). 

• Contribute to Terraform and CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket, CodeMagic, Flyway, AWS CodePipeline) as needed. 

• Improve observability and incident management through tooling like Site24x7, Sentry, Splunk, Jira, and CloudTrail. 

• Partner with Security to maintain robust IAM, secrets management, and compliance (Wiz, SOC 2, GuardDuty, Okta). 

• Optimize cloud costs. 

• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems to drive continuous learning. 

• Evaluate and implement new technologies that simplify and scale infrastructure. 

 Core Technical Focus Areas 

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform and AWS CloudFormation 

• CI/CD Pipelines: Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, Flyway 

• AWS Services: Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, Timestream, S3, CloudFront, VPC, IAM 

• Observability: AWS CloudWatch, Site24x7, Sentry, Splunk 

• Security & Compliance: SOC 2 readiness, IAM best practices, vulnerability scanning (Wiz, AWS Security Hub) 

• Automation: Python, Bash scripting 

• Cost Optimization: Cloud cost management, efficiency monitoring 

 Qualifications 

• 7+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering roles. 

• 3+ years in leadership or team management roles with direct reports. 

• Proven experience managing and scaling AWS infrastructure at high-growth SaaS or IoT companies. 

• Deep understanding of CI/CD automation, IaC, and observability practices. 

• Strong experience implementing security and compliance in cloud environments. 

• Skilled communicator who can translate between technical depth and business context.  
• Demonstrated ability to coach and elevate teams — not just manage tasks. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer Professional.
• Experience with serverless and event-driven architecture.
• Exposure to data or ML infrastructure (SageMaker, Bedrock).
• Experience with IoT systems or integrations (CMMS, EAM, etc.)
• Familiarity with cost optimization strategies. 

What Success Looks Like 

• The DevOps team operates proactively — anticipating challenges and driving solutions, not reacting to tickets. 

• CI/CD pipelines are fast, reliable, and automated. 

• Infrastructure is observable, secure, and cost-efficient. 

• Engineering sees DevOps as a strategic partner that accelerates delivery. 

• The team culture is accountable, empowered, and continuously improving. 

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