Senior Cloud Platform & DevOps Leader

CAVA - Support Center; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

CAVA is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps Manager to lead our cloud platforms, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability across our ordering systems, with a strong focus on observability and cost optimization.

You will mentor engineers, define KPIs, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver resilient cloud solutions. This role requires hands-on expertise with IaC, CI/CD, monitoring tools and excellent communication skills.

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 methodology.
• Proficient in infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience with monitoring/analytics platforms like Grafana or Datadog.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions or CircleCI.
• Strong communication across partner teams.
• Understanding of DevOps fundamentals: security, scalability, reliability.
• Design cloud-based software defined networking.
• Familiarity with fault-tolerant infrastructure designs across regions/AZs.
• Certifications (AWS Solutions Architect or similar) are a plus.
• Willingness to travel occasionally.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Manage cloud engineering team capacity planning and staffing allocation.
• Build and mentor a high-performing cloud engineering team; develop a plan for each member.
• Define measurable KPIs for Engineers to strive for.
• Provide thought leadership on cloud principles, automation, observability improvements, self-healing, high availability/scalability, and root cause analysis.
• Manage cloud platform operational cost and budget optimization.
• Ensure security practices including threat modeling, penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, security monitoring/incident response.
• Continuously assess and improve processes and workflows.
• Lead research of emerging cloud service trends for relevance to the organization.
• Manage vendor relationships with cloud and other providers.

Skills

Cloud engineering management

DevOps

Agile

Infrastructure as code

Monitoring/observability

CI/CD

Communication

Security & reliability

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Grafana

Datadog

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

Job description

CAVA is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps Manager to lead our cloud platforms, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability across our ordering systems, with a strong focus on observability and cost optimization.

You will mentor engineers, define KPIs, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver resilient cloud solutions. This role requires hands-on expertise with IaC, CI/CD, monitoring tools and excellent communication skills.