Sr. Manager, DevOps

AccuWeather is seeking an experienced Senior Manager DevOps to lead a small team of engineers responsible for the infrastructure automation deployment reliability and operational capabilities that support AccuWeathers consumer enterprise API and internal technology platforms.

This role combines people leadership with strong technical depth and cross-functional influence. The Senior Manager will establish priorities and direction for DevOps while remaining close enough to the technology to guide technical decisions remove roadblocks respond to operational issues and partner effectively with Software Engineering Product Security and other teams across AccuWeather. The ideal candidate continually looks for opportunities to improve reliability simplify operations increase automation reduce cost and enable engineering teams to deliver software more quickly and safely.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead develop and support a team of engineers including performance management goal setting career development hiring and resource planning
• Define and execute the DevOps roadmap in alignment with Technology and Business priorities
• Drive adoption of AI across DevOps to improve productivity delivery infrastructure management troubleshooting and operational efficiency
• Identify and implement opportunities to use AI and intelligent automation with measurable improvements in speed quality or efficiency
• Provide technical leadership across cloud infrastructure CI/CD infrastructure-as-code deployment automation observability and production operations
• Ensure AccuWeathers platforms and services are highly available scalable secure maintainable and recoverable
• Continuously improve the SDLC by reducing manual processes improving deployment safety and enabling greater developer self-service
• Establish and evolve standards and best practices for cloud infrastructure configuration management containers automation and operational tooling
• Improve monitoring logging alerting application performance visibility and overall observability across supported platforms
• Lead and improve incident response root cause analysis post-incident reviews disaster recovery and operational readiness practices
• Partner internally to identify and address technical debt reliability risks scalability constraints and operational efficiencies
• Manage cloud and infrastructure capacity utilization and cost; identify opportunities to optimize technology spend without compromising reliability or performance
• Incorporate security and compliance requirements into infrastructure deployment access secrets management and operational practices
• Build strong partnerships across AccuWeather and help drive shared ownership

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Technology or a related discipline or equivalent experience
• 8 years of progressive experience in DevOps cloud infrastructure platform engineering site reliability software engineering or a related field
• 3 years of experience managing and developing technical employees
• Strong technical understanding of modern cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS and CDNs such as Akamai or Cloudflare
• Strong technical understanding of CI/CD infrastructure-as-code automation networking containers observability and production operations
• Experience supporting highly available web mobile API data or other large-scale platforms
• Experience with incident management monitoring and alerting root-cause-analysis disaster recovery and production reliability practices
• Demonstrated ability to balance reliability delivery speed security technical debt and infrastructure cost when making decisions
• Experience managing cloud or infrastructure spend and identifying cost-optimization opportunities
• Strong critical-thinking and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to explain technical risks options and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong collaboration skills and demonstrated ability to lead initiatives across teams
• Self-driven adaptable accountable and committed to continuous improvement

About AccuWeather

AccuWeather recognized and documented as the most accurate and most used source of weather forecasts and warnings in the worldhas saved over 12000 lives prevented injury to over 100000 people and saved companies tens of billions of dollars through better planning and decision-making.

Billions of people around the world rely on AccuWeathers proven Superior Accuracy across our consumer digital the #1 weather destination and one of the top 100 most-visited websites in the world and our award-winning AccuWeather app delivers detailed real-time forecasts to millions of smartphones.

AccuWeather forecasts also appear on digital signage in 700 newspapers are heard on over 400 radio stations and viewed on 100 television stations. The AccuWeather Network and AccuWeather NOW reach an audience of over 125 million on cable and streaming platforms including DirecTV Charter Communications - Spectrum Verizon Philo Frndly TV Comcasts Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Stream Roku Xumo Rockbot LG and Amazon Freevee.

AccuWeather For Business serves more than half of the Fortune 500 companies and thousands of other businesses and government agencies globally.

Dr. Joel Myers Founder and Executive Chairman established AccuWeather in 1962 and is considered the father of modern commercial meteorology. Myers a leading creative thinker and visionary has been called the most accurate man in weather by The New York Times and has been recognized as one of the top entrepreneurs in American history by Entrepreneurs Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

AccuWeather is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race creed color national origin sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression) sexual orientation age ancestry physical or mental disability marital status political affiliation religion citizenship status genetic information veteran status or any other basis protected under applicable federal state or local law.

AccuWeather is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process please send an e-mail to and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.