What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager, DevOps position at Aware, Inc.?
Aware is a global leading provider of biometrics software products, solutions, and services to empower users to own and control their identity while ensuring security and maximizing convenience. We are seeking an experienced Manager of DevOps to lead and scale our DevOps function. This role is responsible for driving the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms, and operational reliability. The ideal candidate combines strong technical expertise with people leadership and cross-functional collaboration.
Job Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of DevOps engineers
- Define and execute the DevOps roadmap aligned with engineering and business goals
- Promote DevOps best practices, automation, and a culture of reliability and ownership
- Partner with Engineering, Security, and Product teams to support delivery and scalability
- Oversee cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and infrastructure-as-code practices
- Ensure systems are scalable, secure, highly available, and cost-effective
- Manage environments across development, staging, and production
- Own CI/CD pipelines to ensure fast, reliable, and repeatable deployments
- Drive automation across build, test, deployment, and monitoring workflows
- Improve developer experience and deployment velocity
- Establish SRE-style practices including SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets
- Ensure robust monitoring, alerting, logging, and incident response processes
- Partner with Security to implement DevSecOps practices and compliance requirements
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems
- Manage on-call rotations and operational readiness
- Continuously improve system performance, uptime, and resiliency
Note: In addition to the Job Responsibilities, the candidate also performs similar work-related duties as assigned.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 10 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering
- 2 years of people management or technical leadership experience
- Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI)
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Strong understanding of Linux systems and networking fundamentals
- Excellent communication and management skills
Salary Range is $130,000 - $165,000 and will be dependent on experience.
We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.
Salary : $130,000 - $165,000