Senior DevOps Leader: AI-Driven Cloud Reliability

AccuWeather Careers

State College (Centre County)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 200,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

AccuWeather is seeking an experienced Senior Manager, DevOps to lead a focused team responsible for infrastructure, automation, deployment, reliability, and operational capabilities across AccuWeather platforms.

This role blends people leadership with strong technical depth, shaping priorities and guiding decisions while partnering with Software Engineering, Product, Security, and other teams to improve reliability, automate processes, and reduce costs.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, 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 CDNs 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.
Ability to balance reliability, delivery speed, security, technical debt, and infrastructure cost.

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 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.