Systems Engineering Manager, SRE & DevOps

VoltaGrid, LLC
Houston, United States of America
3 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Junior

Job location

Houston, United States of America

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Systems Engineering
Azure
Ubuntu (Operating System)
CentOS
Cloud Computing
DevOps
Linux System Administration
Scrum
Red Hat Enterprise Linux - RHEL
Prometheus
Virtualization Technology
Datadog
Delivery Pipeline
Grafana
Technical Debt
Kubernetes
Terraform
Docker

Job description

Position Summary: Manager of Systems Engineering to lead a small, high-impact DevOps/SRE team. This is a split role - you'll split your time between hands-on infrastructure work and growing a team of 3-5 engineers. You'll set technical direction for reliability and infrastructure while building a healthy, high-performing team culture., * Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 3-5 DevOps/SRE engineers

  • Contribute hands-on to infrastructure design, tooling, and incident response alongside your team
  • Set technical direction for cloud infrastructure, on-prem Linux environments, virtualization, deployment pipelines, and reliability practices
  • Drive adoption of SLI/SLO frameworks and operational maturity across the engineering organization
  • Partner with engineering leadership and product teams on capacity planning, roadmap prioritization, and production readiness
  • Own team processes - sprint planning, on-call rotations, postmortem culture, and knowledge sharing
  • Hire and onboard new team members as the team grows
  • Balance technical debt reduction with feature delivery and reliability investments
  • Represent the infrastructure team in cross-functional planning and incident escalations

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, with at least 1-2 years in a technical leadership or management capacity
  • Demonstrated ability to manage, mentor, and develop engineers
  • Strong hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure AWS preferred)
  • Production experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration
  • Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent)
  • Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
  • Solid understanding of monitoring, observability, and alerting systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar)
  • Strong Linux systems administration background (Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS, or similar)
  • Experience with virtualization platforms including VM provisioning, storage, networking, and cluster management
  • Strong communication skills - able to translate infrastructure concerns into business impact for non-technical stakeholders
  • Experience with incident management, postmortems, and on-call processes

Nice to Have:

  • Experience scaling a team through a period of growth
  • Background in platform engineering or internal developer experience initiatives
  • Experience with budgeting and cost optimization for cloud infrastructure
  • Prior experience in a split role balancing IC work and management

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

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