[Remote] Senior Manager, DevOps
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Clinician Nexus is a company dedicated to helping healthcare organizations build effective clinician teams through advanced technology and analytics. The Senior Manager, DevOps will lead the DevOps team while engaging in hands-on engineering, collaborating with various teams to ensure the delivery of secure and reliable platform capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of DevOps engineers, including performance management, growth planning, and career development
- Own the DevOps team roadmap in partnership with the Director of Platform Engineering, including quarterly priorities and capacity planning
- Drive technical decisions and architecture reviews for CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and platform tooling
- Collaborate with engineering, data platform, data governance, and ITOps leadership on cross-functional initiatives and shared standards
- Coach engineers through code review, design feedback, and incident retrospectives
- Represent the team in executive forums, including roadmap reviews, FinOps reporting, and architecture councils
- Partner with the Director of Platform Engineering on AI tooling governance, including standardization on approved platforms, usage policy, and measuring engineering productivity impact
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, including reusable workflows, self-hosted runners, and security controls
- Implement and operate infrastructure as code using Terraform across multi-account AWS environments
- Manage Kubernetes (EKS) clusters, including ArgoCD-based GitOps delivery, ingress, observability, and security policies
- Operate secrets management with HashiCorp Vault, including dynamic credentials, JWT/OIDC auth, and External Secrets Operator integration
- Build and maintain observability tooling with Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Kubernetes-native monitoring stacks
- Lead incident response and post-incident reviews, including authoring runbooks and reliability improvements
- Implement security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation across the platform
- Contribute to AWS network architecture, including PrivateLink, VPCs, and cross-account access patterns
Skills
- 7+ years of hands-on infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a technical lead or team lead capacity
- Demonstrated experience as a working manager or tech lead who balances IC delivery with team leadership
- Deep experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform, including modules, state management, and multi-account patterns within AWS Organizations
- Production experience operating Kubernetes (EKS preferred) and GitOps delivery, ideally with ArgoCD or Flux
- Strong CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions, including security scanning, artifact management, and self-hosted runners
- Strong scripting experience with Python, Bash, or similar
- Working knowledge of HashiCorp Vault or comparable secrets management platforms
- Experience with cloud-based networking, including VPCs, private connectivity, DNS, and identity-based access
- Experience with observability tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or equivalents
- BS in a relevant field or equivalent professional experience
- Experience supporting a regulated environment (HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR)
- Experience with Databricks, Kafka, or other data platform components
- Familiarity with FinOps practices and cloud cost governance
- Experience working in Agile teams and influencing engineering practices across multiple product areas
- Experience integrating AI coding assistants into team workflows, including establishing usage norms and security guardrails
- Comfort operating as both a leader and a builder, with strong judgment on when to delegate and when to dive in
- Ability to translate technical decisions into business-friendly language for executive stakeholders
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including documentation discipline
- Curiosity, ownership, and resilience under tight deadlines
- Track record of mentoring engineers and elevating team performance
Benefits
- Competitive total compensation package
- Medical and dental coverage at no premium cost for employees
- 401(k) and profit-sharing retirement plans
- Flexible spending accounts
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Company-paid holidays
- Gender-neutral parental leave
- Bereavement and pet leave
- Continuing education and professional accreditation sponsorship
- Life and AD&D insurance
- Short- and long-term disability
- Employee assistance program
- Mental health support program
- Additional perks
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