Sr. Manager, DevOps and AWS Infrastructure

Material Bank is scaling quickly as our catalog of products and materials and our unique library of digital assets become more robust, this team delivers the reliable, secure, and scalable foundation that every department depends on. Our mandate is operational excellence, enabling rapid growth, all while protecting performance and trust.

In this Sr. Manager, DevOps role, you will lead a high-impact global Site Reliability, DevOps and AWS Infrastructure team where performance, scalability, and reliability are top priorities. You will be the single-threaded owner of our cloud AWS infrastructure strategy, ensuring our systems can grow with the business while empowering engineers to deliver at speed.

This position combines technical leadership, architecture, hands-on engineering, and people management. You will directly manage a small team of internal and external engineers on the technical direction, coaching your team, and contributing to the architecture and implementation of our AWS platform.

What You’ll Do

• Lead Manage: Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and career development for your team of direct reports and outsourced contributors.

• Architect Scale: Design, implement, and optimize AWS cloud infrastructure with a focus on global scalability, high availability, and security.

• Infrastructure-as-Code: Deliver scalable Cloud infrastructure that is maintainable, and repeatable using Terraform and CloudFormation.

• Platform Engineering: Own and evolve our orchestration platforms, enabling teams to run services reliably at scale through automation.

• CI/CD Ownership: Build and maintain modern CI/CD pipelines, enabling continuous integration, testing, and deployment across multiple services and geographies.

• Data Event Systems: Manage and optimize event-driven and data-processing systems including Kafka for real-time streaming and Airflow for workflow orchestration.

• Identity Security: Implement and maintain Keycloak or equivalent IAM solutions for secure authentication/authorization.

• Enable Engineers: Create self-service and automation frameworks that empower product teams to deploy and operate services independently.

• Reliability Engineering: Deliver monitoring, alerting, observability, and self-healing systems for cloud infrastructure and critical services.
• Strategic Ownership: Drive continuous improvement in performance, cost efficiency, resilience, and platform maturity across AWS services.

What You’ll Bring

• 8+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, or related software engineering fields.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience architecting, scaling, and operating production systems on AWS.
• 3+ years of team management or technical leadership experience aligning infrastructure strategies with business needs
• Experience mentoring engineers, leading roadmaps, and balancing hands-on work with strategic leadership. Strong decision-making skills in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master’s a plus). Equivalent experience considered.

Technical Expertise

• AWS Core Services: EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, CloudFront, EBS, EFS.

• AWS Advanced Services: EKS, ECS, Lambda, Kinesis, MSK (Kafka), Secrets Manager, Step Functions, Systems Manager.

• Infrastructure-as-Code: Strong proficiency in Terraform and CloudFormation.

• Containerization Orchestration: Expertise in Kubernetes and Docker.

• CI/CD Pipelines: Proven experience designing and managing pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or equivalent).

• Streaming Workflow: Hands-on experience with Kafka (or AWS MSK) and Airflow.

• Identity Management: Knowledge of Keycloak or similar IAM/SSO solutions.

• Programming/Scripting: Strong in Python, Bash, or Go for automation and tooling.

• Systems: Proficient in Linux systems, networking, and AWS security best practices.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Agile Scrum and/or Kanban methodologies.

• Exposure to Fastly or other CDN solutions.

• Background in software engineering in addition to infrastructure.

• Experience building a DevOps-first culture emphasizing automation, ownership, and reliability.

What you’ll get from us:

• Our people: If you thrive in an inclusive, innovative, and fast-paced organization, look no further! You will get to work alongside some of the brightest minds - Join a genuinely fun and supportive workplace where we keep our employees consistently engaged through internal communication and corporate events
• Relaxation and Celebrations: Flexible PTO, Sick Days, Paid National Holidays, and even more (ask us about this when we connect).
• Health Benefits: We contribute to your medical, dental, vision and short-term/long-term disability plans and have a strong employee assistance program.
• Plan for your Retirement: 401(k) eligible after your first 90 day's employed!
• Giving Back: We sponsor multiple events throughout the year to help out our communities. You will receive time off to give back as well.
• Growth: We’ll help you take your career to the next level. We want you to be creative and take initiative which will allow you to grow and create within the company. Most importantly, be the best at what matters!
• Flexible Work Schedules: With business units and employees across the globe, Material Technologies has embraced a hybrid  working model allowing department leaders to decide on the best approach for their respective teams, whether that be remote, in person, or a little of both.