Engineering Manager, Cloud Infrastructure

Jobtailor; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Washington DC is seeking a senior infrastructure leader to guide a high‑impact team of engineers, providing technical direction and execution leadership to ship platform work reliably and on time.

You will own the Infrastructure roadmap, drive secure, cost‑efficient AWS environments, and advance CI/CD, observability, and platform tooling, while coordinating with Security, Analytics, and AI Enablement for scalable data and safe AI adoption.

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of hands-on AWS experience.
• 2–3 years managing infrastructure, platform, or SRE engineers.
• Strong command of Terraform for IaC and GitHub Actions for deployment pipelines.
• Background in DevOps or site reliability engineering; operating systems at scale.
• Experience in regulated environments with sensitive data.
• Ability to coordinate large-scale programs across multiple teams.
• Eagerness to integrate AI and automation into workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead a senior team of infrastructure engineers, providing technical guidance and execution leadership.
• Own the technical roadmap for Infrastructure, including two major programs launching in 2026.
• Ensure AWS environments are secure, cost-efficient, and production-ready.
• Drive developer experience improvements across CI/CD, observability, and platform tooling.
• Drive operational excellence across reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Partner with Security, Analytics Engineering, and AI Enablement to support reliable experimentation and scalable data systems.
• Represent Infrastructure in cross-functional planning and technical forums.

Skills

AWS experience

Team leadership

Terraform

CI/CD

DevOps

Security/compliance

AI integration

Tools

GitHub Actions

Job description

Responsibilities

• Lead a senior team of infrastructure engineers, providing technical guidance, career support, and the execution leadership needed to ship high‑impact platform work reliably and on time.
• Own the technical roadmap for Infrastructure, including two major programs launching in 2026.
• Ensure Upside's AWS environments are secure, cost‑efficient, and production‑ready.
• Drive developer experience improvements across CI/CD, observability, and platform tooling.
• Drive operational excellence across reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Partner closely with Product Security, Analytics Engineering, and AI Enablement to ensure infrastructure decisions support reliable experimentation, scalable data systems, and safe AI adoption across R&D.
• Represent Infrastructure in cross‑functional planning and technical forums.

Requirements

• 5–7 years of hands‑on AWS experience with deep fluency in compute (EC2, Lambda), databases (RDS, DynamoDB), IAM, networking, and secrets management.
• 2–3 years managing infrastructure, platform, or SRE engineers; ideally a senior team where technical credibility mattered as much as people skills.
• Strong command of Terraform for IaC and GitHub Actions or equivalent for deployment pipelines.
• Background in DevOps or site reliability engineering; you understand what it means to operate systems at scale and build cultures of operational excellence.
• Experience in environments with real security, compliance, or data sensitivity requirements; fintech, regulated industries, or companies handling sensitive consumer or financial data.
• Comfort owning large‑scale infrastructure programs that span multiple teams and require coordination across R&D, not just execution within your own team.
• Eagerness to integrate AI and automation into infrastructure workflows; not as a future interest, but as something you're actively thinking about now.