Systems Engineering Manager, SRE & DevOps
Position Title: Systems Engineering Manager, SRE & DevOpsLocation: HOUSTON, TXFLSA Class: EXEMPTResponsible to: Director of Software EngineeringPosition 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 ResponsibilitiesLead, mentor, and grow a team of 3-5 DevOps/SRE engineersContribute hands-on to infrastructure design, tooling, and incident response alongside your teamSet technical direction for cloud infrastructure, on-prem Linux environments, virtualization, deployment pipelines, and reliability practicesDrive adoption of SLI/SLO frameworks and operational maturity across the engineering organizationPartner with engineering leadership and product teams on capacity planning, roadmap prioritization, and production readinessOwn team processes — sprint planning, on-call rotations, postmortem culture, and knowledge sharingHire and onboard new team members as the team growsBalance technical debt reduction with feature delivery and reliability investmentsRepresent the infrastructure team in cross-functional planning and incident escalationsOther Requirements6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, with at least 1-2 years in a technical leadership or management capacityDemonstrated ability to manage, mentor, and develop engineersStrong hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure AWS preferred)Production experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestrationProficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent)Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelinesSolid 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 managementStrong communication skills — able to translate infrastructure concerns into business impact for non-technical stakeholdersExperience with incident management, postmortems, and on-call processesNice To HaveExperience scaling a team through a period of growthBackground in platform engineering or internal developer experience initiativesExperience with budgeting and cost optimization for cloud infrastructurePrior experience in a split role balancing IC work and managementThe 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.VoltaGrid is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, arrest record, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.Our management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities, and general treatment during employment