Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vannevar is a defense technology company focused on building AI to enhance national security and deter adversaries. They are looking for a DevOps Engineering Manager to lead a team that ensures platform reliability and secure delivery while collaborating across engineering, security, and product teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a DevOps team: Hire, mentor, and grow engineers; set clear expectations and create an environment of ownership, high standards, and continuous improvement
- Drive platform reliability: Own the health of CI/CD, deployment, and runtime infrastructure; improve availability, performance, and incident response through measurable SLOs and operational rigor
- Build self-service and automation: Create developer-facing tooling to reduce toil (golden paths, paved roads, templates, and automation for common workflows)
- Evolve CI/CD and release engineering: Improve build and deploy pipelines, change management, release safety (progressive delivery, rollbacks), and supply-chain security
- Observability and monitoring: Implement and mature logging, metrics, and alerting; build dashboards and guardrails that help teams understand and improve system behavior
- Infrastructure as code: Standardize and scale infrastructure management using modern IaC patterns and review/approval workflows
- Security and compliance partnership: Work closely with Security and compliance stakeholders to deliver secure-by-default systems and audit-ready practices
- Cross-functional collaboration: Partner with application teams to improve deployability and operability, and translate business priorities into an executable roadmap
Skills
- 3+ years leading and developing software engineers, including coaching, performance management, hiring, and building healthy team practices
- 8+ years of experience as an individual contributor in DevOps/SRE/platform/infrastructure or software engineering roles
- Strong experience operating production systems in a major cloud environment (AWS preferred) and building for reliability and scale
- Proven experience designing and operating modern build and deploy pipelines and automating operational workflows
- Experience with logging/metrics/alerting stacks (e.g., Datadog, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK/OpenSearch) and using them to drive reliability improvements
- Experience with Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent tools and associated engineering practices (code review, testing, drift detection)
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker; Kubernetes/ECS preferred)
- Ability to align stakeholders, explain tradeoffs, and drive execution across teams and functions
- Experience building DevSecOps practices (secret management, policy as code, artifact signing, SBOMs)
- Experience with multi-account AWS environments, network segmentation, and zero-trust patterns
- Experience supporting regulated environments (e.g., FedRAMP, DoD/IC, export-controlled systems)
- Experience with GitHub Actions or other CI platforms at scale
- U.S. TS Security clearance with SCI Eligibility
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 100% remote first culture. You can work from anywhere in the US and all full time employees have WeWork access
- Unlimited PTO including competitive vacation and holiday schedules
- Lifestyle stipends - Monthly mental health, wellness & fitness stipend, in-home office setup stipend and family planning assistance
- Salary top-up during military reserve duty
- Fully paid parental leave
- Child and pet care reimbursement during travel
Company Overview
Vannevar builds new defense capabilities for modern conflict. It was founded in 2019, and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.vannevarlabs.com.