Senior Engineering Manager – DevOps, Infrastructure, Release Engineeringremoterocketship • Remote, Oregon, United States
Senior Engineering Manager – DevOps, Infrastructure, Release Engineering
remoterocketship
- Remote, Oregon, United States
- Remote, Oregon, United States
About
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 Own the release engineering strategy for a SaaS platform supporting frequent, reliable deployments Design and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines that support:
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 Provide technical leadership across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments Ensure infrastructure and delivery pipelines follow security, compliance, and cloud best practices Partner with Architecture and Security to enforce:
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 Own production readiness standards and release go/no-go criteria Ensure clear incident response processes, escalation paths, and on-call readiness Partner deeply with Product, QE, Security, and Engineering leaders to align on release expectations 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 Deep understanding of:
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 Must have hands-on experience in these key tools and technologies (representative, not exhaustive list):
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 Benefits:
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 Home office setup allowance – one-time support to get you started Monthly cell phone allowance – stay connected with ease
Languages
- English
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