DevOps Manager, AssetWatch

• 7+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering roles
• 3+ years in leadership or team management roles with direct reports
• Proven experience managing and scaling AWS infrastructure at high-growth SaaS or IoT companies
• Deep understanding of CI/CD automation, IaC, and observability practices
• Strong experience implementing security and compliance in cloud environments
• Skilled communicator who can translate between technical depth and business context
• Demonstrated ability to coach and elevate teams — not just manage tasks

Desirable

• AssetWatch is seeking an experienced hands-on DevOps Manager to lead the evolution of our infrastructure and culture as we scale our AWS-based platform. This role blends strategic leadership, coaching, and technical execution and is critical to moving our DevOps organization from reactive support to proactive ownership
• You’ll lead a team responsible for reliability, scalability, automation, and security across a modern, event-driven stack. Beyond technical execution, your mission is to build a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement that accelerates delivery and strengthens trust between DevOps, Engineering, and Product
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of DevOps and SRE engineers through clear expectations, accountability, and mentorship
• Drive a proactive, ownership-driven mindset — transforming the team from reactive operators to strategic enablers
• Build strong relationships with Engineering, QA, and Product to ensure DevOps is involved early (“shift left”) in system design
• Establish and enforce best practices around IaC, CI/CD, observability, and security
• Create and manage expectations of roadmap for scaling infrastructure, increasing automation, and reducing toil
• Drive alignment with company priorities through data-driven metrics (uptime, deployment frequency, recovery time, etc.)
• Conduct 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations that balance empathy with accountability
• Participate in hiring and onboarding as the team grows
• Guide infrastructure architecture and implementation across AWS (Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, Timestream, S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Contribute to Terraform and CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket, CodeMagic, Flyway, AWS CodePipeline) as needed
• Improve observability and incident management through tooling like Site24x7, Sentry, Splunk, Jira, and CloudTrail
• Partner with Security to maintain robust IAM, secrets management, and compliance (Wiz, SOC 2, GuardDuty, Okta)
• Optimize cloud costs
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems to drive continuous learning
• Evaluate and implement new technologies that simplify and scale infrastructure
• Core Technical Focus Areas
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform and AWS CloudFormation
• CI/CD Pipelines: Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, Flyway
• AWS Services: Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, Timestream, S3, CloudFront, VPC, IAM
• Observability: AWS CloudWatch, Site24x7, Sentry, Splunk
• Security & Compliance: SOC 2 readiness, IAM best practices, vulnerability scanning (Wiz, AWS Security Hub)
• Automation: Python, Bash scripting
• Cost Optimization: Cloud cost management, efficiency monitoring
• What Success Looks Like
• The DevOps team operates proactively — anticipating challenges and driving solutions, not reacting to tickets
• CI/CD pipelines are fast, reliable, and automated
• Infrastructure is observable, secure, and cost-efficient
• Engineering sees DevOps as a strategic partner that accelerates delivery
• The team culture is accountable, empowered, and continuously improving