# Manager, Infrastructure Engineering

**Company:** [Upside](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/upside)
**Location:** Austin, TX, Chicago, IL, Washington, DC, New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $185k – $215k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** AWS, IAM, Terraform, CI/CD, Observability, Networking, Container Orchestration, Incident Management, DevOps, Infrastructure As Code
**Posted:** 2026-06-09

> Engineering Manager to lead the Infrastructure team responsible for AWS cloud platform, networking, security, CI/CD, and observability. Requires 3+ years managing infra/SRE teams plus hands-on cloud operations experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead the Infrastructure team responsible for Upside’s core cloud platform, networking, security, and foundational services
- Ensure AWS environments are secure, cost-efficient, and production-ready with strong foundations in IAM, networking, secrets management, encryption, and compliance-aware controls
- Lead the evolution of CI/CD, observability, and platform tooling to improve developer experience
- Drive operational excellence across reliability, scalability, and performance, including capacity planning, incident management, on-call health, and post-incident learning
- Define and track key platform health and cost metrics such as availability, latency, error budgets, infrastructure cost per transaction, and change failure rates
- Partner with Security, Data Platform, and Product Engineering teams to enable reliable experimentation and scalable data and ML systems
- Oversee large-scale programs such as cloud modernization, multi-region architecture, and foundational security or resilience upgrades
- Represent Infrastructure in cross-functional planning and technical forums

## Requirements
- 3+ years of experience managing infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering teams
- At least 3+ years of hands-on experience building and operating production systems in the cloud
- Experience designing and reviewing solutions in AWS, including networking, container orchestration, storage, and IAM
- Experience with modern DevOps practices and tooling (Terraform or other IaC, CI/CD systems, observability stacks, incident management)
- Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences

## Nice-to-Haves
- Eagerness to integrate generative AI into engineering workflows
- Experience thriving in high-growth, high-change conditions

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