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.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Culture

• 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.

Hands-On Technical Execution

• 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

Qualifications

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer Professional.
• Experience with serverless and event-driven architecture.
• Exposure to data or ML infrastructure (SageMaker, Bedrock).
• Experience with IoT systems or integrations (CMMS, EAM, etc.)
• Familiarity with cost optimization strategies.

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.

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