Job Specifications
DevOps Leads / Manager | Series C SaaS | NYC | San Francisco | Boston | $250k
Role: DevOps Lead / Manager
Location: Boston, MA
Salary: $230,000 - $250,000 Base + Benefits
The Role
A fast-growing Series C SaaS company in the AI space is seeking an exceptional Lead DevOps Engineer / DevOps Manager to lead and scale its DevOps function during a critical phase of hypergrowth.
This is a hands-on infrastructure leadership role for someone who thrives as a player-coach—owning key infrastructure initiatives while shaping the direction, standards, and best practices of the DevOps organization. The goal is to build scalable enablement through automation, platforms, and self-service infrastructure that empower product, data, and ML engineering teams to move quickly without compromising reliability, security, or quality.
You’ll serve as a trusted technical advisor across the organization, architecting and delivering solutions that have a meaningful impact on engineering operations at scale.
Responsibilities
Lead and evolve the DevOps function, operating as a player-coach while setting technical direction, standards, and best practices.
Build and maintain automation, platforms, and self-service infrastructure to enable engineering teams to move faster with confidence.
Own and drive critical infrastructure initiatives across cloud, CI/CD, and deployment workflows.
Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure (primarily GCP) supporting production workloads.
Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption and standards using Terraform and related tooling.
Establish and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and release reliability.
Partner closely with product, data, ML, and security teams as a trusted technical advisor.
Define and strengthen observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices.
Lead incident response and post-incident reviews, focusing on long-term improvements.
Mentor and develop DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, quality, and continuous improvement.
Qualifications
5+ years of experience building and maintaining large-scale infrastructure supporting production workloads.
Strong experience with configuration management and IaC tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi).
3+ years of experience building automation tooling in a modern programming language (preferably Python or Go).
At least 1 year of people management or equivalent team-lead experience.
Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL required).
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (ideally GKE).
At least 3 years of experience with modern CI/CD tools.
Familiarity with cloud deployment workflows and cloud IaaS providers (GCP preferred).
Ideal Background
BSc or MSc in Computer Science or something relatable
Startup experience. Understanding of hypergrowth in a recently funded company
Location
This position requires the candidate to be located in one of the company’s designated hubs: San Francisco/Bay Area, New York City, or Boston
About the Company
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