Systems Engineering Manager, SRE & DevOps

Position Title: Systems Engineering Manager, SRE & DevOps

Location: HOUSTON, TX

FLSA Class: EXEMPT

Responsible to: Director of Software Engineering

Position Summary: Manager of Systems Engineering to lead a small, high-impact

DevOps/SRE team. This is a split role — you'll split your time between hands-on

infrastructure work and growing a team of 3-5 engineers. You'll set technical

direction for reliability and infrastructure while building a healthy,

high-performing team culture.

Essential Duties and

Responsibilities

• * Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 3-5 DevOps/SRE engineers
• * Contribute hands-on to infrastructure design, tooling, and incident response
• alongside your team
• * Set technical direction for cloud infrastructure, on-prem Linux environments,
• virtualization, deployment pipelines, and reliability practices
• * Drive adoption of SLI/SLO frameworks and operational maturity across the
• engineering organization
• * Partner with engineering leadership and product teams on capacity planning,
• roadmap prioritization, and production readiness
• * Own team processes — sprint planning, on-call rotations, postmortem culture,
• and knowledge sharing
• * Hire and onboard new team members as the team grows
• * Balance technical debt reduction with feature delivery and reliability
• investments
• * Represent the infrastructure team in cross-functional planning and incident
• escalations
• Other

Requirements

• * 6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, with at
• least 1-2 years in a technical leadership or management capacity
• * Demonstrated ability to manage, mentor, and develop engineers
• * Strong hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure AWS
• preferred)
• * Production experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration
• * Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent)
• * Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• * Solid understanding of monitoring, observability, and alerting systems
• (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar)
• * Strong Linux systems administration background (Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS, or
• similar)
• * Experience with virtualization platforms including VM provisioning, storage,
• networking, and cluster management
• * Strong communication skills — able to translate infrastructure concerns into
• business impact for non-technical stakeholders
• * Experience with incident management, postmortems, and on-call processes

Nice to Have

• * Experience scaling a team through a period of growth
• * Background in platform engineering or internal developer experience
• initiatives
• * Experience with budgeting and cost optimization for cloud infrastructure
• * Prior experience in a split role balancing IC work and management
• The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of
• work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. All personnel
• may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from
• time to time, as needed.
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