Ellevation - Senior Engineering Manager, CloudOps
Requirements
• 8+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years leading platform, cloud infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps teams. • Strong experience with AWS (compute, networking, IAM, storage, databases) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK). • Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines and secure deployment workflows (GitHub Actions, OIDC, artifact management). • Familiarity with modern observability practices (metrics, logs, traces; OpenTelemetry; CloudWatch, Datadog, or Grafana). • Practical knowledge of containerized applications (Docker, ECS/EKS) and developer workflows on Mac/Linux. • Hands-on understanding of balancing security, reliability, and developer experience through guardrails and risk-based tradeoffs. • Experience modernizing legacy systems or shepherding large technical transitions is a strong plus. • A track record of building strong teams, mentoring engineers, and leading through ambiguity and change. • Curiosity and excitement about how AI can enhance developer workflows, observability, and tooling — even if you’re still learning.
Responsibilities
• Lead and grow the CloudOps (Platform & DevEx) team, providing clarity, coaching, mentorship, and a strong sense of purpose. • Build and evolve paved paths for service creation, deployment, observability, and operations — defining “the Ellevation way” to build software. • Improve developer experience across the stack: container workflows, repo templates, CI/CD automation, observability defaults, and internal tooling. • Stabilize and enhance the Cloud Development Environment (CDE) for .NET Framework development while guiding the organization toward long-term modernization and retirement of legacy systems. • Drive modernization of legacy infrastructure and help the team shift from “pets vs. cattle” to scalable, reliable, well-automated patterns. • Partner with product engineering teams to understand friction, remove obstacles, and co-create better workflows and tools. • Define and measure DevEx outcomes using frameworks like SPACE, focusing on satisfaction, flow, clarity, and feedback loops. • Collaborate with Security on guardrails and secure defaults while ensuring CloudOps remains an enablement-focused team, not a gatekeeper. • Promote platform thinking and cultural change — helping the team build confidence, question assumptions, and engage proactively with partners across engineering. • Manage vendor relationships, infrastructure costs, and resourcing for the platform surface areas you own. • Information that you provide when applying for employment with Curriculum Associates, LLC may be subject to the California Privacy Rights Act. Click here for more information about our data-collection practices and your rights related to that data. • We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
Benefits
• In addition to our great benefits and competitive salaries, here are some things that make us unique: • + Mission-driven organization where team members are empowered to make a significant impact • + Opportunities to join Employee Resource Groups and support building a culture of belonging • + Professional development and growth opportunities • + Company and team offsites in various cities across the United States • + Collaborative workspace in the heart of Boston - a stone's throw from many central T stops (Downtown Crossing, Government Center, and Aquarium). Free snacks, beverages, and local organic fruit provided • + Remote and in-person engagement opportunities, including happy hours, themed events, and competitions • + Remote and in-person wellness programming to support team’s mental and physical wellbeing • Learn more about our team in our Culture Deck. • Here at Ellevation, we champion diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging. We strive to build a team that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values a range of ideas and opinions. • We believe in building a culture where productivity can flourish, one that is empathetic, respectful, and inclusive. We are proud to have been recognized in prior years as “Best Tech Workplace for Diversity” by the Timmy Awards for investing in training around inclusive behaviors, microaggressions, unconscious bias, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and feedback across the company. We are encouraged by our progress, but there’s more work to be done. • Benefits – Benefits eligible employees (and qualifying dependents) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees can enroll in our company's 401(k) retirement plan and receive an employer match up to 50% on the first 7% of your contribution, with pre-tax and Roth options. Employees have access to flexible paid time off for vacations, sick and disability policy, additional 10 paid company holidays, 2 floating holidays and a winter office closure between Christmas and New Year's. In addition, we provide a generous parental leave benefit, back-up childcare or eldercare, and a variety of other perks to support the health and well-being of our employees.
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