Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps Manager- New York

CAVA; New York (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

CAVA is seeking a Manager of Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps to lead cloud engineers and SREs in building scalable, secure cloud platforms. You will drive architecture, governance, and cost optimization while mentoring a high-performing team across cloud-native tooling and CI/CD pipelines.

The role emphasizes collaboration with cross-functional partners, development of KPIs, and continuous improvement of observability and resilience across digital platforms.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years managing Cloud Engineering teams and 5+ years in a Cloud Engineering role.
• Experience in cloud-based DevOps and managing a mid-size distributed team.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies.
• Proficient with IaC tooling such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience with monitoring/analytics platforms like Grafana or Datadog.
• Experience using CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions or CircleCI.
• Strong cross-functional communication with partner teams.
• Understanding of security, scalability, and reliability in DevOps.
• Knowledge of cloud networking and software-defined networking.
• Familiarity with fault-tolerant architectures using regions and AZs.
• Cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect) are a plus.
• Results driven with reliable follow through.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of the cloud platform to ensure scalability, reliability, and security.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements, architect solutions, and ensure successful delivery of cloud projects.
• Lead cloud engineering team capacity planning and staffing allocation for current and future needs.
• Build and mentor a high-performing cloud engineering team with development plans.
• Define measurable KPIs for engineers and track progress.
• Provide thought leadership on cloud principles, automation, observability, and reliability.
• Manage cloud platform operational costs and optimize spend.
• Enforce security practices including threat modeling and vulnerability monitoring.
• Improve processes and workflows to drive efficiency and quality.
• Research emerging cloud trends to assess relevance and fit for the org.
• Manage vendor relationships with cloud providers.

Skills

Cloud leadership

Cloud DevOps

Agile

Infrastructure as Code

Monitoring & Analytics

CI/CD

Cross-functional communication

DevOps fundamentals

Cloud networking

Fault-tolerant design

Cloud certifications

Results oriented

Collaboration

Communication skills

Analytical thinking

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Grafana

Datadog

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

Job description

The Manager of the Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps Teams will play a pivotal role in driving the design, implementation, management and observability of our cloud platforms. This role will lead a team of cloud engineers responsible for building scalable, secure, and resilient cloud solutions using tools such as infrastructure as code (IaC), container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, cloud services, and other relevant technologies. This role will also lead a team of site reliability engineers responsible for observability of our digital ordering platforms and implementing changes and bugfixes to ensure all platforms are scalable, resilient and performant.

What You’ll Do

• Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of our cloud platform ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements, architect solutions, and ensure successful delivery of cloud projects.
• Responsible for cloud engineering team capacity planning and staffing allocation activities to ensure sufficient staffing for current and future needs.
• Build and mentor a high-performing cloud engineering team. Establish a comprehensive development plan for each team member, focusing on skill enhancement and career growth.
• Work with team to define measurable and meaningful KPIs for Engineers to strive to and follow.
• Provide thought leadership, coach the organization on cloud principles, automation, observability improvements, self-healing, high availability/scalability, and root cause analysis.
• Responsible for managing cloud platform operational cost, understanding the budget and optimizing the spend to achieve maximum value from Cloud investments.
• Ensure team follows best practices including threat modeling, penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, security monitoring/incident response enablement, to ensure privacy and compliance regulations are followed.
• Continuously assess and improve processes and workflows to drive efficiency and quality.
• Leads research emerging application and cloud service trends to determine their relevancy and fit for the organization.
• Manage vendor relationship with cloud and other providers.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years managing Cloud Engineering team with 5+ years of experience in a Cloud Engineering role, with a proven track record of managing cloud platforms and SRE practices.
• Experience in cloud-based DevOps and managing a mid-size distributed team.
• Experience with Agile development methodology.
• Experience with writing infrastructure as code (IaC) (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.
• Experience with a unified, real-time monitoring and analytics platform, such as Grafana or Datadog.
• Experience using a CI/CD tool like GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc.
• Ability to effectively communicate with multiple partner teams from requirements gathering to roadmap planning to delivery.
• Understanding of DevOps fundamentals such as security, scalability, and reliability.
• Ability to design and create cloud-based software defined networking.
• Familiarity with fault-tolerant infrastructure designs including the use of regions and availability zones.
• Certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect or relevant cloud provider certifications are a plus.
• Results driven with reliable follow through preferred.
• Eagerness to work in a highly collaborative team environment.
• Great verbal and written communication skill.
• Strong analytical, decision-making, interpersonal, and conflict resolution skill.