Senior Manager, DevOps

HopSkipDrive

. Lead and grow a team of Platform and DevOps engineers; set direction, coach, hire, and remain hands-on part of the week .

Posted 10/7/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $180,000 - $205,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in leading Platform and DevOps teams while managing AWS infrastructure, CI/CD processes, and AI tooling integration. Proven ability to enhance delivery systems and foster a culture of automated testing and continuous improvement.

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AWS Platform ManagementInfrastructure As Code (Terraform)KubernetesCI/CD ProcessesAI/Agentic Transformation

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Hard Skills

Platform EngineeringDevOps EngineeringIncident ResponseAutomated TestingCoding AgentsLLM ToolingDelivery MetricsRegression Suite CoveragePostgresWeb And Mobile Application Development

Soft Skills

Clear Writing SkillsCustomer-Minded ApproachHuman-Centric LeadershipCoaching And MentoringLow-Ego Collaboration

Industry Keywords

Agentic Software Development Lifecycle (ASDLC)Cloud Cost ManagementObservabilityDeployment EnvironmentsContinuous Improvement

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudKubernetesPostgresTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and grow a team of Platform and DevOps engineers; set direction, coach, hire, and remain hands-on part of the week
Own the AWS platform end-to-end, including infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, CI/CD, environments, observability, incident response, and cloud cost
Lead the Agentic Software Development Lifecycle (ASDLC) practice to keep AI tools safe, aligned, and continuously improving
Enable automated verification with embedded tests across web and mobile releases
Deliver deployment environments and CI pipelines that keep pace with agent-generated change
Measure and improve delivery systems, including time in CI, code review, and QA
Build written alignment with product and engineering leaders on platform roadmap and investment trade-offs

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience as a hands-on Platform or DevOps engineer who has stepped into leadership
Experience managing engineers while continuing to ship software
Experience leading teams through on-call, incident response, platform growth, and AI/agentic transformation
Deep knowledge of AWS, infrastructure as code (Terraform), Kubernetes, and Postgres
Production experience operating a large web and mobile application surface area
Experience applying coding agents and LLM tooling in a software lifecycle, including CI integration, evaluation, guardrails, and cost control
Experience improving organizational adoption of coding agents and LLM tooling
Strong understanding of CI/CD and regression suite platform coverage
Ability to transition engineering teams from manual to automated testing
Fluency in delivery and reliability metrics
Clear writing skills for proposals and decision records in a remote, asynchronous company
Track record of independently adopting generative AI to accelerate personal and team work
Direct, low-ego, customer-minded, and human-centric approach
Must reside in and perform work from Arizona, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, or Wisconsin
Must be willing to work in a drug-free workplace

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity stock options for every full-time employee
Flexible vacation
Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Life insurance
401(k)
FSA
Opportunity to work for a uniquely positioned, VC-backed company with significant upside potential