Senior DevOps and AWS Infrastructure Manager, Material Bank
Sample materials marketplace for architecture & design
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Sample materials marketplace for architecture & design
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To remove the friction that exists when searching and sampling materials.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, or related software engineering fields
- 5+ years of hands-on experience architecting, scaling, and operating production systems on AWS
- 3+ years of team management or technical leadership experience aligning infrastructure strategies with business needs
- Experience mentoring engineers, leading roadmaps, and balancing hands-on work with strategic leadership. Strong decision-making skills in fast-paced, high-growth environments
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master’s a plus). Equivalent experience considered
- Technical Expertise:
- AWS Core Services: EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, CloudFront, EBS, EFS
- AWS Advanced Services: EKS, ECS, Lambda, Kinesis, MSK (Kafka), Secrets Manager, Step Functions, Systems Manager
- Infrastructure-as-Code: Strong proficiency in Terraform and CloudFormation
- Containerization & Orchestration: Expertise in Kubernetes and Docker
- CI/CD Pipelines: Proven experience designing and managing pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or equivalent)
- Streaming & Workflow: Hands-on experience with Kafka (or AWS MSK) and Airflow
- Identity Management: Knowledge of Keycloak or similar IAM/SSO solutions
- Programming/Scripting: Strong in Python, Bash, or Go for automation and tooling
- Systems: Proficient in Linux systems, networking, and AWS security best practices
Desirable
- Experience with Agile Scrum and/or Kanban methodologies
- Exposure to Fastly or other CDN solutions
- Background in software engineering in addition to infrastructure
- Experience building a DevOps-first culture emphasizing automation, ownership, and reliability
What the job involves
- In this Sr. Manager, DevOps role, you will lead a high-impact global Site Reliability, DevOps and AWS Infrastructure team where performance, scalability, and reliability are top priorities
- You will be the single-threaded owner of our cloud AWS infrastructure strategy, ensuring our systems can grow with the business while empowering engineers to deliver at speed
- This position combines technical leadership, architecture, hands-on engineering, and people management
- You will directly manage a small team of internal and external engineers on the technical direction, coaching your team, and contributing to the architecture and implementation of our AWS platform
- Lead & Manage: Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and career development for your team of direct reports and outsourced contributors
- Architect & Scale: Design, implement, and optimize AWS cloud infrastructure with a focus on global scalability, high availability, and security
- Infrastructure-as-Code: Deliver scalable Cloud infrastructure that is maintainable, and repeatable using Terraform and CloudFormation
- Platform Engineering: Own and evolve our orchestration platforms, enabling teams to run services reliably at scale through automation
- CI/CD Ownership: Build and maintain modern CI/CD pipelines, enabling continuous integration, testing, and deployment across multiple services and geographies
- Data & Event Systems: Manage and optimize event-driven and data-processing systems including Kafka for real-time streaming and Airflow for workflow orchestration
- Identity & Security: Implement and maintain Keycloak or equivalent IAM solutions for secure authentication/authorization
- Enable Engineers: Create self-service and automation frameworks that empower product teams to deploy and operate services independently
- Reliability Engineering: Deliver monitoring, alerting, observability, and self-healing systems for cloud infrastructure and critical services
- Strategic Ownership: Drive continuous improvement in performance, cost efficiency, resilience, and platform maturity across AWS services
Our take
Architecture and design professionals need real-world samples of the materials they intend to work with, and they need to know what they’re picking is the best fit for their project. Historically, there’s been no universal aggregator of all available materials - you’d just have to know who and where to ask. Material Bank is changing this, with a service it describes as being the Expedia of design samples.
Material Bank is the largest materials marketplace for the A&D industry. Offering a wide range of material samples from carpets to hardwoods, all sample orders have next-day delivery availability across Canada and the US, and is always free for design professionals. The company's profit comes from selling spots within its rapidly growing marketplace community to vendors and manufacturers, connecting brands with thousands of vetted design professionals.
It’s an offering with a remarkably tight market fit, demonstrated by its swelling customer base and investment funding. The company has begun its global expansion, having launched in Japan, it is focusing on growing into the European market through an office in Paris. It is also cementing its success through a M&A strategy, most recently incorporating Architizer's architectural project database into its product.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
May 2022
$175m
SERIES D
May 2021
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $323.2m
Company benefits
- Medical insurance
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid maternity leave
- Commuter benefits
- Disability insurance
Company HQ
Boca Raton, FL
Leadership
Adam Sandow
(CEO)Is also CEO and Chairman of SANDOW.
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