# Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

**Company:** [Formation Bio](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/formation-bio)
**Location:** New York, NY, Boston, MA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $186k – $232k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Snowflake, Docker, GitHub, Kubernetes, Python, Terraform, Opentofu, Virtual Networking, CI/CD
**Posted:** 2026-08-31

> Leads the infrastructure and SRE organization, owning technical direction, reliability, security, operational practices, and team development. Requires 7+ years of combined infrastructure/SRE and management experience, including 3+ years managing relevant engineering teams.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Hire, coach, and develop infrastructure and site reliability engineers; set goals, provide feedback, and manage performance.
- Set the technical direction and roadmap for infrastructure and SRE across reliability, security, cost, and developer experience.
- Build operating practices and paved paths that support rapid, reliable, and secure software delivery.
- Partner with engineering and data science teams to deploy secure, observable, reliable software across containerized applications, internal tools, ML pipelines, and AI model-training workloads.
- Oversee infrastructure services across multiple cloud providers and environments, including compute, load balancers, databases, secrets management, and validated or GxP-relevant workloads.
- Ensure quality and optimization of infrastructure as code, container images, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Review requirements, design documents, operating procedures, and maintenance practices.
- Drive infrastructure and SRE training, mentoring, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
- Own support rotation coverage, escalation paths, incident retrospectives, and operational improvements.
- Manage budgeting, resourcing, estimates, tracking, and reporting for infrastructure initiatives.

## Requirements
- 7+ years of combined hands-on infrastructure/SRE experience and people management.
- 3+ years of direct management experience managing Site Reliability, Infrastructure, or DevOps engineers.
- Track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineers.
- Strong operational and reliability judgment, including advanced diagnostics, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
- Bias toward automation and ability to apply sound judgment to operational tradeoffs.
- Point of view on AI-native engineering and the operational requirements of an agentic software development lifecycle.
- Exceptional collaboration and communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience managing or coordinating technical projects and programs, including budgeting and reporting.
- Working knowledge of AWS and Snowflake.
- Working knowledge of Docker, GitHub, Kubernetes, Python, Terraform/OpenTofu, and virtual networking.
- Familiarity with multi-tenant COTS and FOSS software applications.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with Azure, Google Cloud, or Vercel.
- Digital forensics experience.
- Experience supporting regulated or validated workloads.
- Pharmaceutical or biotech experience.

## Compensation
- Total compensation range: **$185,500–$232,000**.
- Compensation may include equity, benefits, and perks.

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