Senior Manager – DevOps
The Leaflet
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Florida • United States
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About the role
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning
- Provide leadership-level coverage during US evenings and weekends to ensure rapid response to critical incidents and maintain platform stability
- Drive strategic planning and coordination of DevOps initiatives during US business hours, working closely with engineering, product, and business stakeholders
- Oversee architecture and implementation of scalable AWS and hybrid cloud infrastructure using Terraform/Terragrunt and related Infrastructure as Code tools
- Guide the design, building, and optimization of highly available containerized environments leveraging EKS, Kubernetes, and Docker
- Lead the automation strategy for CI/CD pipelines (TeamCity, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and similar), ensuring fast, secure, and reliable software delivery across environments
- Champion security by design, implementing guardrails, identity/access controls, and compliance-driven automation across infrastructure layers
- Collaborate with global teams in Poland to optimize handoffs, knowledge sharing, and round-the-clock operational coverage
- Manage incident response processes, conduct post-mortems, and implement preventive measures to reduce future incidents
- Establish and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability practices using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Datadog, or similar
- Develop and track key performance metrics for infrastructure reliability, deployment velocity, and team productivity
- Drive continuous improvement in deployment processes, system resilience, and cost optimization across multiple environments
- Lead recruitment efforts to build and scale the DevOps team as business needs evolve
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or similar roles
- 3+ years of people management experience, including hiring, mentoring, performance management, and team development
- Proficiency in key technologies and concepts, including EKS, networking, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Terragrunt or similar), security, and compliance
- Experience leading CI/CD initiatives and designing scalable delivery pipelines with GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or comparable tools
- Strong communication skills with ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience coordinating with geographically distributed teams across multiple time zones preferred
- Flexibility to provide leadership coverage during US evenings and weekends as needed
- AWS Professional Certification (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or SysOps Administrator) strongly preferred
Benefits
- Competitive pay and benefits
- Flexible vacation allowance
- Flexible work from home or office hours
- Startup culture backed by a secure, global brand
- Opportunity to build products enjoyed by millions as part of a passionate team
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Hard skills
DevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringInfrastructure as CodeTerraformTerragruntEKSKubernetesDockerCI/CDnetworking
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationteam developmentincident responsecontinuous improvementflexibility
Certifications
AWS Professional CertificationSolutions ArchitectDevOps EngineerSysOps Administrator