Remote DevOps Engineering Manager - AWS Serverless

LiveData; Boston; On-site; PHP 7,688,000 - 10,763,000; Full time

Job summary

LiveData is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead and grow the DevOps function in a remote-first setup with a strong preference for Eastern Time. You will manage two DevOps engineers and collaborate with software, QA, security, and leadership to improve delivery speed, reliability, observability, and AWS cost efficiency.

This hands-on leadership role requires architectural decisions, CI/CD shaping, incident response, and solving complex production problems in a pragmatic way, with

Qualifications

• 6+ years in DevOps, platform, SRE, or infrastructure engineering.
• 2+ years leading engineers directly or as technical lead for a small DevOps/platform team.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS in production environments.
• Experience building and improving CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code.
• Proven track record operating production systems with a focus on reliability, observability, and incident response.
• Experience with cloud security fundamentals, secrets management, identity and access control, and secure deployment practices.
• Strong working knowledge of Linux, networking fundamentals, and shell-based troubleshooting.
• Experience with scripting or software development in Python, Bash, or similar languages.
• Ability to review and refine AI-generated code or configuration using sound engineering judgment.
• Clear communication skills across engineering, leadership, and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of two DevOps engineers.
• Own the health and maturity of the DevOps function: infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and release processes.
• Define and execute a DevOps roadmap aligned with engineering and business goals.
• Partner with software engineers to improve developer experience and deployment reliability.
• Strengthen infrastructure as code, automation standards, and operational runbooks.
• Oversee production operations: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and root cause analysis.
• Drive reliability, availability, backup and recovery readiness, and disaster recovery planning.
• Guide secure infrastructure and delivery practices in collaboration with security and engineering leadership.
• Manage and optimize AWS usage with attention to scalability, resilience, and cost.
• Track and report key operational metrics (e.g., deployment frequency, change failure rate, availability, mean time to recovery, cloud spend).
• Help evaluate tooling and vendor choices for a small engineering organization.
• Support future hiring and growth of the DevOps function.
• Use AI coding assistants and automation tools as part of daily workflows.

Skills

AWS

CI/CD

IaC

SRE

Linux

Python

Bash

Security

Observability

Incident Response

AI tooling

GitHub

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

CloudWatch

Job description

LiveData is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead and grow the DevOps function in a remote-first setup with a strong preference for Eastern Time. You will manage two DevOps engineers and collaborate with software, QA, security, and leadership to improve delivery speed, reliability, observability, and AWS cost efficiency.

This hands-on leadership role requires architectural decisions, CI/CD shaping, incident response, and solving complex production problems in a pragmatic way, with