Engineering Manager, DevOps

Vannevar Labs

DevOps Engineering Manager at Vannevar, focusing on platform reliability and team leadership in a defense tech environment. Leading secure, scalable infrastructure and tooling processes.

Posted 6/15/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDockerGrafanaKubernetesTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and develop a DevOps team: Hire, mentor, and grow engineers; set clear expectations and create an environment of ownership, high standards, and continuous improvement.
Drive platform reliability: Own the health of CI/CD, deployment, and runtime infrastructure; improve availability, performance, and incident response through measurable SLOs and operational rigor.
Build self-service and automation: Create developer-facing tooling to reduce toil (golden paths, paved roads, templates, and automation for common workflows).
Evolve CI/CD and release engineering: Improve build and deploy pipelines, change management, release safety (progressive delivery, rollbacks), and supply-chain security.
Observability and monitoring: Implement and mature logging, metrics, and alerting; build dashboards and guardrails that help teams understand and improve system behavior.
Infrastructure as code: Standardize and scale infrastructure management using modern IaC patterns and review/approval workflows.
Security and compliance partnership: Work closely with Security and compliance stakeholders to deliver secure-by-default systems and audit-ready practices.
Cross-functional collaboration: Partner with application teams to improve deployability and operability, and translate business priorities into an executable roadmap.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Engineering management experience: 3+ years leading and developing software engineers, including coaching, performance management, hiring, and building healthy team practices.
Deep hands-on background: 8+ years of experience as an individual contributor in DevOps/SRE/platform/infrastructure or software engineering roles.
Cloud and systems expertise: Strong experience operating production systems in a major cloud environment (AWS preferred) and building for reliability and scale.
CI/CD and automation: Proven experience designing and operating modern build and deploy pipelines and automating operational workflows.
Observability: Experience with logging/metrics/alerting stacks (e.g., Datadog, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK/OpenSearch) and using them to drive reliability improvements.
Infrastructure as code: Experience with Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent tools and associated engineering practices (code review, testing, drift detection).
Containers and runtime: Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker; Kubernetes/ECS preferred).
Strong communication: Ability to align stakeholders, explain tradeoffs, and drive execution across teams and functions.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health, dental, and vision insurance
100% remote first culture. You can work from anywhere in the US and all full time employees have WeWork access
Unlimited PTO including competitive vacation and holiday schedules
Lifestyle stipends - Monthly mental health, wellness & fitness stipend, in-home office setup stipend and family planning assistance
Salary top-up during military reserve duty
Fully paid parental leave
Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

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Hard Skills & Tools

DevOpsSREplatform engineeringinfrastructure managementCI/CDautomationobservabilityinfrastructure as codecloud computingcontainers

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationperformance managementcoachingteam buildingstakeholder alignmentexecutioncontinuous improvement