[Remote] Engineering Manager - DevOps

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LiveData is a healthcare technology company that builds cloud-based surgical software and automates clinical and operational workflows across Electronic Health Record systems. The Engineering Manager - DevOps will lead a two-person DevOps team while owning infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, production operations, reliability, security, and AWS cost optimization. This hands-on leadership role also partners across engineering, QA, security, and leadership to improve delivery and platform performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of two DevOps engineers
• Own the health and maturity of the DevOps function: infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and release processes
• Define and execute a DevOps roadmap aligned with engineering and business goals
• Partner with software engineers to improve developer experience and deployment reliability
• Strengthen infrastructure as code, automation standards, and operational runbooks
• Oversee production operations: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and root cause analysis
• Drive reliability, availability, backup and recovery readiness, and disaster recovery planning
• Guide secure infrastructure and delivery practices in collaboration with security and engineering leadership
• Manage and optimize AWS usage with attention to scalability, resilience, and cost
• Track and report key operational metrics (e.g., deployment frequency, change failure rate, availability, mean time to recovery, cloud spend)
• Help evaluate tooling and vendor choices appropriate for a small engineering organization
• Support future hiring and growth of the DevOps function
• Use AI coding assistants and automation tools as part of daily workflows

Skills

• * 6+ years in DevOps, platform, SRE, or infrastructure engineering
• * 2+ years leading engineers directly or serving as technical lead for a small DevOps/platform team
• * Strong hands-on experience with AWS in production environments
• * Experience building and improving CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code
• * Proven track record operating production systems with a focus on reliability, observability, and incident response
• * Experience with cloud security fundamentals, secrets management, identity and access control, and secure deployment practices
• * Strong working knowledge of Linux, networking fundamentals, and shell-based troubleshooting
• * Experience with scripting or software development in Python, Bash, or similar languages
• * Ability to review and refine AI-generated code or configuration using sound engineering judgment
• * Clear communication skills and the ability to work effectively across engineering, leadership, and non-technical stakeholders
• This is a remote-first role. While you can work from anywhere in the U.S., we strongly prefer candidates in the Eastern Time Zone. If you are located elsewhere, you should have experience working core business hours (8 AM to 5 PM ET). Additionally, you must be available to travel to the Boston area approximately once per quarter for in-person team collaboration.
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis
• * Experience in healthcare or another regulated environment
• * Experience with serverless AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, EventBridge, RDS, or Aurora
• * Experience with AWS CDK, Terraform, or similar infrastructure-as-code tooling
• * Familiarity with compliance-minded engineering practices (auditability, access review, logging and retention controls, change management)
• * Experience improving developer experience for small engineering teams
• * Familiarity with PostgreSQL, application performance monitoring, and AWS cost optimization
• * Experience with AI-assisted development tools and workflows
• * Experience supporting remote engineering teams and coordinating operational work across time zones

Benefits

• Generous health, dental, and vision insurance
• An employer-matched 401(k)
• Paid time off
• Remote work flexibility

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