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This is a technical, hands-on leadership position responsible for fostering an agile DevOps culture focused around increasing transparency, communication, and collaboration across multiple vendors in support of our client.\nYou will be responsible for ensuring that our AWS cloud infrastructure meets the capacity and performance requirements of our users to guarantee that they can receive benefits that allow them to be agile, scalable, and efficient. You will need to leverage your experience and management expertise to deliver core services for the development team, perform rapid deployments at scale, and have the best-in-class monitoring and site reliability capabilities in order to safely innovate and operate business critical applications.\nResponsibilities:\nDesign cloud solutions using industry best practices to provide security, scalability and optimize cost benefits\nProvide AWS cloud architecture oversight and guidance, taking the big picture into account to incorporate cross-over requirements from other initiatives, upcoming requirements, and new cloud technologies and services.\nProvide technical leadership, guidance, and mentoring to technical support team individuals. Assess performance, maximize productivity, and promote inter- and intra-team collaboration.\nDrive timely resolutions, automation, and additional improvements to further minimize impact to our production environments and support internal customers by removing barriers in the SDLC process.\nPartner with the client’s security team to understand requirements and continue to establish solutions to meet those needs.\nCollaborate with team members to establish a continual growth path for them.\nProvide technical infrastructure leadership and guidance to an AWS cloud engineering team designing and building an AWS cloud solution for a business-critical application development effort.\nBe a hands-on leader in developing strategy with software engineering focus, procedure and governance for development process, release, deployment, and overall operation efforts. Enforce and improve operational and reliability standards, practices, and solutions such as SLA monitoring, availability and performance monitoring/alerting, security, disaster recovery, fault tolerance, and business continuity.\nInstill and foster a truly agile DevOps culture with the teams by leading strategic initiatives and practices.\nEvangelize cloud native strategies to other engineering leaders in a highly distributed settings by demonstrating practical execution capabilities with strong understanding of enterprise cloud solution.\nKnowledge and Skills: Familiarity with key areas of software engineering and operations (dev/ops, customer reliability engineering and site reliability engineering)\nRequired Technical Skills:\nTerraform\nCI/CD Pipelines in AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy\nContainerization using AWS ECS with EC2 and FarGate\nAWS Aurora MySQL databases\nAWS Lambda\nPractical Python coding skills\nFamiliarity with Palo Alto Firewalls or other NATing VPN software/appliances\nStrong capabilities developing and operating high functioning technical teams\nStrong written & verbal communication skills\nStrong interpersonal skills\nDesired Technical Skills:\nFamiliarity with Appian\nFamiliarity with Crowdstrike\nFamiliarity with DataDog\nFamiliarity with Oracle Databases\nEducation and Experience:\nBachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Business Information Systems or related field or equivalent work experience (or equivalent experience)\n12+ years of technical experience with 5+ in a management capacity\n5+ years managing and operating in AWS cloud infrastructure\nRequired Certifications: AWS Developer Professional or AWS Architect Professional\nOther: Must be a Finch AI employee (no 1099 subcontractor possible for this position)","company":"Finchcomputing","rawCompany":"finchcomputing","city":"Washington","state":"DC","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-04-14T11:01:23.045Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"11-3021.00","title":"Computer and Information Systems Managers","slug":"computer-and-information-systems-managers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"DevOps Manager - Engineer","description":"Managing DevOps Engineer\nClearance Requirement: Ability to obtain a Public Trust (requires US Citizenship)\nLocation: Herndon, VA -Must be willing to travel to Washington, DC customer office once per month during anchor week\nThe Managing DevOps Engineer will lead a team of talented AWS cloud, DevOps, automation, and security engineers who are dedicated to building and operating a secure, scalable and flexible AWS DevOps cloud infrastructure best suited for our client. 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