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We are looking for a technically strong leader to guide a distributed team and drive CI/CD platform initiatives across a hybrid cloud and physical instrument ecosystem.\nThis role blends strategic leadership with deep technical execution, ensuring alignment across multiple development value streams while establishing enterprise-scale automation and DevOps practices.\nLocation: Milford, MA\nHybrid Schedule: Onsite Tuesday–Thursday (3 days/week)\nResponsibilities:\n\nLeadership & Collaboration\nServe as a team leader and mentor to your direct reports, uplifting their engineering capabilities and supporting their career growth.\nDrive collaboration across functional, architectural, and organizational boundaries.\nEstablish, advocate for, and enforce best practices, standards, and patterns in DevOps and platform engineering.\nCommunicate technical strategies, trade-offs, and decisions clearly to engineers, leadership, and stakeholders.\nCI/CD & Platform Engineering\nDesign, implement, and maintain scalable CI/CD platforms supporting Windows and Linux build environments.\nImprove software delivery reliability by optimizing build pipelines, artifact management, and release workflows.\nPartner with engineering teams to modernize build systems, pipeline architecture, and deployment practices.\nContinuously improve platform scalability, performance, and developer experience.\nIntegrate automated testing frameworks into CI/CD pipelines to ensure consistent validation and quality gates for software changes.\nInfrastructure & Technical Leadership\nDesign and operate hybrid infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and on-premises environments (vSphere).\nDevelop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar frameworks.\nTroubleshoot complex infrastructure and CI/CD issues with a focus on reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.\nSupport integration of software systems with physical laboratory instruments, enabling automated build, test, and deployment pipelines.\nPartner with security teams to implement secure infrastructure patterns and enforce compliance standards.\nDrive cloud infrastructure optimization and ensure responsible management of cloud spending.\n\nQualifications:\nEducation\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field\n8+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or similar roles\n2–5 years of experience leading or mentoring engineering teams\nExperience & Technical Skills\nStrong programming experience in Python with an emphasis on maintainable, production-grade code\nExperience with scripting languages such as PowerShell and Bash\nDeep experience with Git-based workflows, branching strategies, and repository governance\nExperience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins\nFamiliarity with Windows and Linux build environments\nWorking knowledge of build systems such as MSBuild and CMake, and package management tools including NuGet or npm.\nPreferred Qualifications\nCloud certifications in AWS or Azure\nExperience building or scaling enterprise CI/CD platforms supporting high job concurrency and large engineering organizations\nFamiliarity with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, or similar)\nExperience operating in regulated or enterprise environments requiring strong security governance and compliance practices\nDemonstrated experience improving developer experience through platform engineering initiatives\n\nCompany Description:\nWaters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) is a global leader in life sciences and diagnostics, dedicated to accelerating the benefits of pioneering science through analytical technologies, informatics, and service. With a focus on regulated, high-volume testing environments, our innovative portfolio harnesses deep scientific expertise across chemistry, physics, and biology. We collaborate with customers around the world to advance the release of effective, high-quality medicines, ensure the safety of food and water, and drive better patient outcomes by detecting diseases earlier, managing routine infections, and combating antibiotic resistance. Through a shared culture of relentless innovation, our passionate team of ~16,000 colleagues turn scientific challenges into breakthroughs that improve lives worldwide.\n\nDiversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It benefits our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. 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