DevOps Manager

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Dev Ops Leads / Manager | Series C SaaS | NYC | San Francisco | Boston | $250k

Salary: $230,000 - $250,000 Base + Benefits

A fast-growing Series C SaaS company in the AI space is seeking an exceptional Lead Dev Ops Engineer / Dev Ops Manager to lead and scale its Dev Ops function during a critical phase of hypergrowth.

This is a hands-on infrastructure leadership role for someone who thrives as a player-coach
—owning key infrastructure initiatives while shaping the direction, standards, and best practices of the Dev Ops organization. The goal is to build scalable enablement through automation, platforms, and self-service infrastructure that empower product, data, and ML engineering teams to move quickly without compromising reliability, security, or quality.

You’ll serve as a trusted technical advisor across the organization, architecting and delivering solutions that have a meaningful impact on engineering operations at scale.

• Lead and evolve the Dev Ops function, operating as a player-coach while setting technical direction, standards, and best practices.
• Build and maintain automation, platforms, and self-service infrastructure to enable engineering teams to move faster with confidence.
• Own and drive critical infrastructure initiatives across cloud, CI/CD, and deployment workflows.
• Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure (primarily GCP
  ) supporting production workloads.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption and standards using Terraform and related tooling.
• Establish and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and release reliability.
• Partner closely with product, data, ML, and security teams as a trusted technical advisor.
• Define and strengthen observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices.
• Lead incident response and post-incident reviews, focusing on long-term improvements.
• Mentor and develop Dev Ops engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, quality, and continuous improvement.

• 5+ years of experience building and maintaining large-scale infrastructure supporting production workloads.
• Strong experience with configuration management and IaC tools (e.g.,
  Terraform
  , Pulumi).
• 3+ years of experience building automation tooling in a modern programming language (preferably Python or Go
  ).
• At least 1 year of people management or equivalent team-lead experience.
• Experience with relational databases (
  PostgreSQL required).
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (ideally GKE).
• At least 3 years of experience with modern CI/CD tools.
• Familiarity with cloud deployment workflows and cloud IaaS providers (
  GCP preferred
  ).

• BSc or MSc in Computer Science or something relatable
• Startup experience. Understanding of hypergrowth in a recently funded company

• This position requires the candidate to be located in one of the company’s designated hubs:
  San Francisco/Bay Area, New York City, or Boston