Senior Manager – DevOps Engineering at Beacon Power Services

How You'll Make an Impact

• We are looking for a strategic and execution-focused Senior Manager – DevOps Engineering to define and scale the infrastructure strategy that powers our software platforms.
• You will lead the evolution of our cloud architecture, DevSecOps practices, and operational resilience model across the organization. This role goes beyond pipeline management, you will establish standards, build scalable platform capabilities, and ensure our infrastructure enables rapid product innovation while maintaining enterprise-grade security, reliability, and compliance.
• You will be accountable for infrastructure strategy, platform performance, reliability engineering, cost governance, and incident management maturity across environments.

What You'll Do

Infrastructure Strategy & Platform Leadership

• Define and own the cloud and infrastructure strategy aligned with company growth and product scalability objectives
• Architect resilient, secure, and cost-efficient multi-environment cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Establish and enforce infrastructure standards, governance models, and best practices across teams
• Lead capacity planning, disaster recovery strategy, and business continuity planning
• Drive cloud cost optimization

DevOps & Platform Engineering Excellence

• Build and scale CI/CD frameworks that enable reliable, secure, and high-frequency releases
• Institutionalize Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi) and GitOps practices across teams
• Establish platform engineering capabilities to improve developer productivity and reduce operational friction
• Drive automation strategy to eliminate manual processes and increase deployment confidence
• Define and monitor DevOps maturity metrics across the organization

Reliability, Observability & Operational Resilience

• Lead Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices to improve uptime, performance, and scalability
• Define and enforce SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets
• Oversee monitoring, logging, and observability frameworks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog)
• Lead major incident response processes and post-incident reviews
• Drive root cause analysis discipline and continuous reliability improvement

Security & Compliance (DevSecOps)

• Embed security-by-design principles across infrastructure and deployment pipelines
• Partner with Cybersecurity leadership on vulnerability management and risk mitigation
• Establish robust access control, secrets management, and compliance frameworks
• Ensure infrastructure meets regulatory and industry standards

Managerial Responsibilities

• Define and own the annual operating plan for the function, including workforce and financial planning
• Manage and optimize departmental budgets
• Make strategic resource allocation decisions
• Build, scale, and structure teams to support long-term capability development
• Establish performance frameworks, succession planning, and leadership development pathways
• Ensure governance, risk management, and operational maturity across the function
• Drive the creation of standardized, scalable systems that enable consistent execution across regions

What We're Looking For

Professional & Technical Strengths

• Strong experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering roles
• Proven experience defining infrastructure strategy in high-growth or enterprise environments
• Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Strong experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
• Advanced proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi)
• Extensive experience designing and scaling CI/CD frameworks
• Strong understanding of SRE principles, observability, and operational excellence
• Experience managing cloud cost optimization initiatives

Leadership & Interpersonal Strengths

• Ability to collaborate with multicultural and geographically distributed teams
• High degree of autonomy and accountability (we operate within a hybrid work environment)
• Systems thinker capable of balancing speed, reliability, security, and cost at scale
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across Engineering, Cybersecurity, and Product Management
• Ability to lead high-severity incident response, coordinating cross-functional teams to restore service quickly and drive structured post-incident resolution
• Strong ownership mindset with accountability for organizational-level outcomes