Senior Manager, Software Development and Automation

5C Data Centers

Join the Future of Digital Infrastructure

Are you a passionate Senior Manager, Software Development and Automation looking to make a meaningful impact? We're building the next generation of digital infrastructure powering hyperscalers, AI innovation, and high-performance computing across North America.

Job Title: Senior Manager, Software Development and Automation

Department: Cloud Operations

Location: OH, USA

Work Arrangement: Remote

Salary Range: $180,000 – $220,000 USD

We're looking for a Senior Manager, Software Development and Automation who is equal parts architect and builder. You'll need to see the target state, a proactive monitoring culture, a scalable automation platform, and the infrastructure foundation for AI, and be able to articulate and sell that vision to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Just as importantly, you'll need to know how to get there: breaking a multi-year vision into a practical, bottom-up sequence of steps a team can actually execute. You'll build out automation and configuration management practices, help stand up the platform foundation for new and AI-enabled products, and instill Dev Ops practices as the way 5C operates, not just within this team.

Remaining legacy systems are kept stable through light-touch oversight, not a major modernization push.

Our core values guide how we collaborate, make decisions, support one another, and serve our customers. We're looking for people who embrace them and help us build something great.

• Lead and develop a high-performing Dev Ops and software engineering team while remaining actively involved in technical execution, establishing scalable standards, and partnering with Product and Operations to drive roadmap priorities and technical direction.
• Own the team's operational excellence by balancing short-term needs with long-term investments, leading incident management and on-call practices, and ensuring reliable, maintainable, and standardized solutions through strong technical governance.

• Own and drive the technical vision for 5C's automation and AI infrastructure, translating long-term strategy into practical, incremental roadmaps that deliver measurable business value.
• Champion Dev Ops, automation, and proactive monitoring practices across the organization, serving as a technical leader who enables teams company-wide to adopt standardized tools, processes, and operational best practices.

• Build and mature infrastructure automation capabilities by implementing configuration management, version-controlled infrastructure changes, and repeatable deployment processes that improve consistency and operational efficiency.
• Drive adoption of event-driven automation, self-healing systems, and comprehensive monitoring and observability practices to reduce manual effort, increase reliability, and enable proactive infrastructure management

• Establish a scalable, production-ready infrastructure foundation by implementing standardized platforms for orchestration, Git Ops deployments, monitoring, security, certificate management, and disaster recovery, ensuring new environments are deployed with consistency and reliability.
• Drive automation, governance, and engineering support for AI and emerging workloads, enabling new initiatives to launch on mature infrastructure platforms while accelerating adoption of standardized operational practices.

• Keep remaining legacy infrastructure stable, secure, and supportable with minimal ongoing investment, as the team's focus shifts to automation and AI-enabled platforms.
• Make pragmatic calls on when a legacy issue needs real engineering time versus when it can be contained or deprioritized.

• 5+ years experience as a hands-on leader of a Dev Ops, infrastructure, or platform engineering team, combining people management with real technical depth.
• Demonstrated ability to define and articulate a multi-year technical vision, and to sell it convincingly to both engineering and executive audiences.
• Track record of turning that kind of vision into a practical, bottom-up execution plan, not just architecting on a whiteboard.
• 10+ years experience instilling Dev Ops practices and a proactive monitoring culture in an organization that didn't already have them, not just operating one that…