Sr. Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (DevOps)

Penn Mutual; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Penn Mutual is seeking a Sr. Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (DevOps) to lead a first-level team responsible for secure, reliable software delivery across our technology environment.

You will guide DevOps engineers in CI/CD platforms, automation, cloud enablement, and release standards while hands-on technical work informs architectural decisions. As a technical leader, you will drive automation strategy, partner with SRE/engineering teams, and improve delivery velocity, resilience, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years in DevOps, SRE, platform/ cloud engineering or similar.
• 2+ years leading engineers or people leadership.
• Practical knowledge of CI/CD, IaC, cloud services, release engineering, and observability.
• Experience applying standards, metrics, and continuous improvement in an enterprise tech environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with business impact awareness.
• Knowledge of IT service management, change management, and risk practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop DevOps engineers with performance and career development.
• Remain hands-on with critical technical work and review designs/automation patterns.
• Translate strategy into team plans with measurable deliverables.
• Manage daily operations of CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and production readiness.
• Drive IaC, DevSecOps, automated testing, secure config, monitoring and documentation.
• Collaborate with multiple teams to improve deployment reliability and operational resilience.
• Support AWS cloud adoption and modernization with standardized automation and observability.
• Use metrics and platform health indicators to improve team performance and service quality.
• Participate in incident reviews, change governance, and operational improvement initiatives.

Skills

CI/CD processes

Cloud platforms

DevSecOps practices

Infrastructure as Code

Leadership

Incident management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD platforms

Job description

Job Summary

The Sr. Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (DevOps), leads a first-level team responsible for enabling secure, reliable, and efficient software delivery across Penn Mutual's technology environment. This role manages DevOps engineers who support CI/CD platforms, infrastructure automation, cloud enablement, release engineering, deployment standards, developer tooling, and operational support. The Sr. Manager is accountable for team execution, service quality, process discipline, and continuous improvement. This role is expected to lead by example through active, hands-on technical engagement, helping guide complex work, remove delivery obstacles, and reinforce engineering standards. As a technical leader, you will influence architecture, drive automation strategy, and partner closely with SRE, development, and other infrastructure teams to improve delivery velocity, operational resilience, and developer experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop DevOps engineers through goal setting, performance feedback, career development, workload planning, and delivery oversight.
• Lead by example by remaining hands-on with critical technical work, providing practical guidance, reviewing designs and automation patterns, and modeling the engineering discipline expected of the team.
• Translate DevOps strategy and roadmap priorities into clear team plans, measurable deliverables, and sustainable operating practices.
• Manage daily operations for Penn Mutual's DevOps-supported services, including CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, infrastructure automation, release support, developer tooling, and production readiness practices.
• Drive consistent use of Infrastructure as Code, DevSecOps practices, automated testing, reusable deployment patterns, secure configuration, secret management, monitoring, and documentation.
• Partner with Software Engineering, SRE, Infrastructure, Architecture, Information Security, QA, Change Management, Risk, and Audit to improve deployment reliability, release safety, compliance readiness, and operational resilience.
• Support AWS cloud adoption and modernization by enabling standardized automation, secure delivery pipelines, environment management, observability, tagging, cost awareness, and operational support models.
• Use metrics, incident trends, stakeholder feedback, and platform health indicators to improve team performance, reduce manual toil, and strengthen service quality.
• Participate in incident reviews, problem management, corrective action planning, ITIL change governance, audit discussions, vendor coordination, and operational improvement initiatives.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field; or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, cloud engineering, infrastructure, software engineering, enterprise operations, or a related technology discipline.
• 2+ years of experience leading engineers, managing technical work, or serving in a formal or informal people leadership role.
• Practical knowledge of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, cloud services, release engineering, deployment automation, observability, DevSecOps practices, and operational support.
• Experience applying standards, controls, documentation, metrics, production readiness practices, and continuous improvement methods in an enterprise technology environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to manage priorities and explain technical issues in terms of business impact, risk, and operational outcomes.
• Working knowledge of IT service management, incident management, change management, compliance, audit readiness, business continuity, and technology risk practices.
• Strong problem‑solving skills with the ability to analyze complex technical problems and propose/implement effective solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting DevOps, platform engineering, cloud enablement, application modernization, or developer productivity initiatives in a regulated enterprise environment.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS, CI/CD platforms, Infrastructure as Code, container platforms, observability tools, security scanning, secrets management, and automated deployment practices.
• Experience embedding security, compliance, logging, monitoring, disaster recovery, tagging, and cost management expectations into cloud and DevOps delivery practices.
• Experience with automation workflows, agents, and other toil‑reduction tools.
• Experience improving release quality, change success rates, deployment frequency, incident reduction, automation maturity, and developer self‑service capabilities.
• Relevant certifications or demonstrated expertise in cloud, DevOps, platform engineering, containerization, security, IT service management, or reliability engineering.
• Knowledge of Agile software development methodologies such as Agile or Kanban.

Base Salary Range - $150,000 - $170,000

For over 175 years, Penn Mutual has empowered individuals, families and businesses on the journey to achieve their financial goals. Through our partnership with Financial Professionals across the U.S., we help instill the confidence and reliability that comes from a stronger financial future. Penn Mutual and its affiliates offer a comprehensive suite of competitive products and services to meet the unique needs of Financial Professionals and their clients, including life insurance, annuities, wealth management and institutional asset management. To learn more, including current financial strength ratings, visit www.pennmutual.com.

Penn Mutual is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO). We provide employment and advancement opportunities to all qualified applicants and associates, according to applicable laws. This is reflected in our practices for hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, recruitment, compensation, selection or training, and all other terms and conditions of employment. All employment-related decisions and practices are free from unlawful discrimination. This includes: race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship age, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, domestic partnership or civil union status, marital status, genetic information, disability, religious observance or practice, liability, veteran status or any other classification protected under applicable law.

You’ve got big plans. You want to do work that matters. And you have high expectations for the next step in your career. Join a team of bright, talented and driven employees who have a common goal in mind: To help people get stronger. It's as simple as that. You'll build on your expertise and have a positive impact on the financial professionals we support and the clients they serve. Here, you're an expert in the subject matter and you'll always be treated like one. Every day, your purpose is to help people get stronger. But here's the thing: Professionally, you'll get stronger too.