DevOps Manager: Cloud Infra & SRE Leader

GCS Recruitment; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

GCS Recruitment seeks an experienced DevOps Manager to lead a Technical Operations team responsible for reliability, scalability, and performance of a large cloud infrastructure. This leadership role blends hands-on engineering with people management to drive operational excellence across engineering, security, and product teams.

You will own 24/7 production stability, IaC automation, Kubernetes and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), CI/CD pipelines, and incident response.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Technical Operations, Infrastructure Engineering, or SRE.
• 4+ years of experience managing technical operations, infrastructure, or SRE teams.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, and people management skills.
• Experience managing production cloud infrastructure in AWS and/or GCP.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration.
• Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Strong understanding of Linux systems administration.
• Experience with incident management, on-call operations, and production support.
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals, cloud security, and infrastructure best practices.
• Experience with Agile methodologies, Kanban, Jira, or similar project management tools.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing Technical Operations/DevOps team.
• Ensure 24/7 operational stability, availability, and reliability of production infrastructure.
• Drive operational excellence through continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead incident response, major incident management, and post-incident reviews (RCA).
• Establish and manage Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets.
• Oversee infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
• Manage Kubernetes-based container platforms and cloud infrastructure.
• Improve deployment processes through CI/CD and automation.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Security, and Infrastructure teams on strategic initiatives.
• Drive disaster recovery, resiliency, and business continuity planning.
• Develop monitoring, alerting, and observability strategies.
• Present operational metrics and project updates to senior leadership.
• Ensure compliance with security standards, audits, and regulatory requirements.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud experience (AWS/GCP)

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD

Linux

Incident management

Networking basics

Agile / Kanban / Jira

Executive communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Jira

Git

Prometheus

Grafana

APM

Job description

GCS Recruitment seeks an experienced DevOps Manager to lead a Technical Operations team responsible for reliability, scalability, and performance of a large cloud infrastructure. This leadership role blends hands-on engineering with people management to drive operational excellence across engineering, security, and product teams.

You will own 24/7 production stability, IaC automation, Kubernetes and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), CI/CD pipelines, and incident response.