# Engineering Manager, DevOps

**Company:** [Loop Returns](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/loop-returns)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $150k – $190k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, GitLab, Datadog, Helm, Linux, CI/CD, iac
**Posted:** 2026-07-27

> Lead a team of DevOps and SRE engineers to own infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and progressive delivery on AWS and Kubernetes. Hands-on role (50% time) building self-service platforms, multi-region architectures, SLOs, and observability with Datadog while mentoring the team and partnering with product and data organizations. Requires 7+ years infrastructure experience and 2+ years leading DevOps/SRE teams.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do

- Drive self-service and automation by designing golden-path workflows using Terraform and Kubernetes/Docker so product teams can provision infrastructure, integrate monitoring via Datadog, and release safely through GitLab CI/CD.
- Champion the evolution of deployment patterns on Kubernetes, including blue/green, canary, feature-flag, and immutable-infra releases that minimize risk and MTTR.
- Lead strategy and execution for disaster recovery on AWS, including multi-region architectures, cross-region data replication (Aurora, DynamoDB, S3), and global traffic management.
- Implement SLOs, error budgets, chaos testing, and auto-remediation playbooks in Datadog to raise reliability; own the infrastructure on-call rotation culture.
- Mentor and develop a team of DevOps engineers, DBAs, and SecOps Engineers, cultivating the next wave of engineering leaders.
- Partner with Product Engineering, Data Team (Airflow, Snowflake, dbt), and stakeholders to align roadmaps and unlock velocity.
- Contribute hands-on: writing Terraform modules, optimizing Helm charts on Kubernetes, reviewing merge requests in GitLab, supporting Linux infrastructure, and joining high-severity incident calls.

## Your Experience

- 2+ years of DevOps leadership managing DevOps or SRE teams.
- 7+ years in hands-on platform or infrastructure roles.
- Strong self-service track record delivering internal platforms that empowered hundreds of engineers to ship autonomously.
- Large-scale AWS expertise designing and operating multi-region, high-throughput systems supporting over $100M in annual GMV.
- Expert in advanced CI/CD pipelines and IaC, proficient with GitLab CI, Terraform, Kubernetes; experienced introducing progressive delivery, policy-as-code, and secrets management at scale.
- Deep understanding of metrics, tracing, logging, and alerting with observability mindset (Datadog or similar).
- Familiar with cloud security best practices, least-privilege access, and regulated-data environments (PCI, SOC 2, GDPR).
- Empathetic leadership fostering psychological safety, inclusion, continuous feedback, accountability, and high performance.

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