Sr. DevOps Manager - San Francisco, California, United States

*This is a 100% remote role for someone based in either Boston or San Francisco* · About Us: · Zeitview is the leading intelligent aerial imaging company for high-value infrastructure, providing businesses with actionable, real-time insights to recover revenue, reduce risk and im ...

Job description

*This is a 100% remote role for someone based in either Boston or San Francisco*

About Us:
Zeitview is the leading intelligent aerial imaging company for high-value infrastructure, providing businesses with actionable, real-time insights to recover revenue, reduce risk and improve build quality. We serve customers in the solar, wind, insurance, construction, real estate, and critical infrastructure industries. Trusted by the largest enterprises in the world, Zeitview is active in over 70 countries. Our mission is to accelerate the global transition to renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure through advanced inspection solutions. Take a look at our latest achievements here

About the Role:
We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineering Manager who combines strong people leadership with deep hands-on technical expertise. This role is intentionally split: approximately 50% people and delivery leadership, and 50% hands-on DevOps engineering. You will lead and grow a DevOps/SRE organization while actively designing, building, and operating the infrastructure, platforms, and tooling that power our engineering teams. This is a critical role for someone who enjoys staying close to the technology while scaling teams, systems, and operational excellence

Responsibilities:
People Management & Leadership (≈50%)

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of DevOps and SRE engineers, including performance
• management, coaching, career development, and hiring.
• Establish clear goals, expectations, and success metrics for the team; own and track team OKRs.
• Foster a culture of operational excellence, ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Partner closely with Engineering, Platform, Security, IT, and Product leaders to align infrastructure strategy with business and product goals.
• Perform capacity planning, workload prioritization, and on-call rotations to ensure sustainable team operations.
• Act as an escalation point for major incidents and drive actionable postmortems and systemic improvements.

Hands-On DevOps Engineering (≈50%)

• Actively design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS/GCP/Azure) using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, etc.).
• Architect and operate CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, safe, and reliable software delivery.
• Lead hands-on efforts in reliability, scalability, performance, security, and cost optimization.
• Drive improvements in observability (logging, metrics, tracing), alerting, and incident response.
• Work directly in production systems, including participating in on-call rotations when necessary.
• Partner with application and platform teams to improve developer experience, deployment patterns, and operational readiness.
• Evaluate, introduce, and standardize DevOps tools and practices across the organization.

Technical Scope

• Cloud infrastructure and networking
• Kubernetes and container orchestration
• CI/CD systems and release automation
• Monitoring, alerting, and observability platforms
• Security best practices (secrets management, access controls, compliance)
• Reliability engineering and incident management
• Cost management and cloud efficiency

Qualifications:
Required

• 10+ years of experience in software, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering.
• 4+ years of experience managing and growing engineering teams.
• Experience writing IaC 3+ years
• Well versed in the AWS services and resources
• Strong hands-on experience with modern cloud platforms and DevOps tooling.
• Proven ability to balance strategic leadership with deep technical execution.
• Experience supporting high-availability, production-grade systems.
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence across teams and leadership levels.
• Experience leading DevOps/SRE teams in a scaling or high-growth environment.●
• Experience with the following technologies

• • Terraform (Terragrunt)

  • Gitops (ArgoCD)

  • Atlantis

  • Kubernetes

  • Docker

  • Grafana

  • Prometheus

  • PostgreSQL

  • ElasticSearch

Preferred

• Background working with global or distributed teams.
• Prior experience owning production on-call and incident response at scale.
• ML/Computer Vision experience

What Success Looks Like

• A high-performing DevOps team with clear ownership, strong morale, and measurable impact.
• Reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure that enables fast product development.
• Improved deployment velocity, system reliability, and developer experience.
• A leader who is trusted both as a people manager and as a hands-on technical authority.

What's Included:

• Feel great about your work as you join a leading mission-driven intelligent aerial imaging company - our goal is to accelerate the global transition to renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure, and you personally will play a large part in making this happen
• Competitive salary, annual bonus and equity
• Your choice of multiple medical insurance plans, including options with an HSA and 100% coverage of the premium for yourself and your dependents
• 100% paid dental and vision insurance
• Unlimited PTO: We mean it when we say we prioritize work-life balance and mental health
• Work-from-home environment: flexibility for employees should be the norm for companies
• Autonomy and upward mobility
• Diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture: a place where your voice matters

Zeitview is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. At Zeitview, we believe in cultivating an environment where our team members can bring their authentic, whole selves to work. Encouraging identity and belonging is one of the many aspects of our culture that makes us stronger as an organization and drives innovation. We are committed to building and delivering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workforce  that includes age, color, sex, disability, national origin, race, religion or veteran status, that is representative of the world around us, where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity - and to act swiftly if this value is ever threatened. We are constantly striving to be better, and we continue to take strategic steps to advance representation.

We also provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and for seriously held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.