Senior DevOps Leader: AI-Driven Cloud Reliability

AccuWeather

State College (Centre County)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 210,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

AccuWeather is seeking an experienced Senior Manager, DevOps to lead a small team of engineers responsible for the infrastructure, automation, deployment, reliability, and operational capabilities that support AccuWeather's platforms.

This role blends people leadership with strong technical depth and cross-functional influence, guiding cloud strategy, CI/CD, IaC, and observability while partnering with Software Engineering, Product, Security, and other teams to improve reliability and delivery

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience
8+ years of progressive experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, site reliability, software engineering, or a related field
3+ years of experience managing and developing technical employees
Strong technical understanding of modern cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS and CDN's such as Akamai or Cloudflare
Strong technical understanding of CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automation, networking, containers, observability, and production operations
Experience supporting highly available web, mobile, API, data, or other large-scale platforms
Experience with incident management, monitoring and alerting, root-cause-analysis, disaster recovery, and production reliability practices
Demonstrated ability to balance reliability, delivery speed, security, technical debt, and infrastructure cost when making decisions
Experience managing cloud or infrastructure spend and identifying cost-optimization opportunities
Strong critical-thinking and problem-solving skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical risks, options, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences
Strong collaboration skills and demonstrated ability to lead initiatives across teams
Self-driven, adaptable, accountable, and committed to continuous improvement

Responsibilities

Lead, develop, and support a team of engineers including performance management, goal setting, career development, hiring, and resource planning
Define and execute the DevOps roadmap in alignment with Technology and Business priorities
Drive adoption of AI across DevOps to improve productivity, delivery, infrastructure management, troubleshooting, and operational efficiency
Identify and implement opportunities to use AI and intelligent automation with measurable improvements in speed, quality, or efficiency
Provide technical leadership across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, deployment automation, observability, and production operations
Ensure AccuWeather's platforms and services are highly available, scalable, secure, maintainable, and recoverable
Continuously improve the SDLC by reducing manual processes, improving deployment safety, and enabling greater developer self-service
Establish and evolve standards and best practices for cloud infrastructure, configuration management, containers, automation, and operational tooling
Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, application performance visibility, and overall observability across supported platforms
Lead and improve incident response, root cause analysis, post-incident reviews, disaster recovery, and operational readiness practices
Partner internally to identify and address technical debt, reliability risks, scalability constraints, and operational efficiencies
Manage cloud and infrastructure capacity, utilization, and cost; identify opportunities to optimize technology spend without compromising reliability or performance
Incorporate security and compliance requirements into infrastructure, deployment, access, secrets management, and operational practices
Build strong partnerships across AccuWeather and help drive shared ownership