Abacus Insights - Senior Manager, Engineering (DevOps, Infrastructure, and Release Engineering)
Requirements
• 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, and Azure . GCP operating models is a plus • 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 • 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 • Cloud Platforms: AWS (primary), Azure, GCP • 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 • Compensation: Compensation for this role is based on experience, skills, and location, and includes base salary plus eligibility for performance bonuses and equity grants.
Responsibilities
• 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 • 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 • Technical & Platform Leadership • Provide technical leadership across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments • Ensure infrastructure and delivery pipelines follow security, compliance, and cloud best practices • 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
Benefits
• 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 • Monthly cell phone allowance – stay connected with ease #LI-SB1 #LI-Remote
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