Sr. Manager, DevOps

Accu Weather is seeking an experienced Senior Manager, Dev Ops to lead a small team of engineers responsible for the infrastructure, automation, deployment, reliability, and operational capabilities that support Accu Weather's consumer, enterprise, API, and internal technology platforms.

This role combines people leadership with strong technical depth and cross-functional influence. The Senior Manager will establish priorities and direction for Dev Ops while remaining close enough to the technology to guide technical decisions, remove roadblocks, respond to operational issues, and partner effectively with Software Engineering, Product, Security, and other teams across Accu Weather. The ideal candidate continually looks for opportunities to improve reliability, simplify operations, increase automation, reduce cost, and enable engineering teams to deliver software more quickly and safely.

• Lead, develop, and support a team of engineers including performance management, goal setting, career development, hiring, and resource planning
• Define and execute the Dev Ops roadmap in alignment with Technology and Business priorities
• Drive adoption of AI across Dev Ops to improve productivity, delivery, infrastructure management, troubleshooting, and operational efficiency
• Identify and implement opportunities to use AI and intelligent automation with measurable improvements in speed, quality, or efficiency
• Provide technical leadership across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, deployment automation, observability, and production operations
• Ensure Accu Weather’s platforms and services are highly available, scalable, secure, maintainable, and recoverable
• Continuously improve the SDLC by reducing manual processes, improving deployment safety, and enabling greater developer self-service
• Establish and evolve standards and best practices for cloud infrastructure, configuration management, containers, automation, and operational tooling
• Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, application performance visibility, and overall observability across supported platforms
• Lead and improve incident response, root cause analysis, post-incident reviews, disaster recovery, and operational readiness practices
• Partner internally to identify and address technical debt, reliability risks, scalability constraints, and operational efficiencies
• Manage cloud and infrastructure capacity, utilization, and cost; identify opportunities to optimize technology spend without compromising reliability or performance
• Incorporate security and compliance requirements into infrastructure, deployment, access, secrets management, and operational practices
• Build strong partnerships across Accu Weather and help drive shared ownership

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of progressive experience in Dev Ops, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, site reliability, software engineering, or a related field
• 3+ years of experience managing and developing technical employees
• Strong technical understanding of modern cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS and CDN’s such as Akamai or Cloudflare
• Strong technical understanding of CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automation, networking, containers, observability, and production operations
• Experience supporting highly available web, mobile, API, data, or other large-scale platforms
• Experience with incident management, monitoring and alerting, root-cause-analysis, disaster recovery, and production reliability practices
• Demonstrated ability to balance reliability, delivery speed, security, technical debt, and infrastructure cost when making decisions
• Experience managing cloud or infrastructure spend and identifying cost-optimization opportunities
• Strong critical-thinking and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical risks, options, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong collaboration skills and demonstrated ability to lead initiatives across teams
• Self-driven, adaptable, accountable, and…