How youll make an impact:
Were looking for a DevOps Manager who is passionate about building high-performing teams, driving operational excellence, and guiding the design of scalable systems that power our enterprise software platform. In this role, youll provide leadership, mentorship, and direction to our DevOps engineers while also staying hands-on enough to understand the technology and processes that keep us running.
Youll partner closely with software engineering, product, and operations to ensure reliable deployments, streamlined workflows, and resilient infrastructure across both on-premise and public cloud environments.
In this role, you will:
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of DevOps engineers, fostering collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Define and oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of microservice infrastructure in both on-premise and cloud environments.
- Establish and track Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to ensure system reliability and performance.
- Oversee release and deployment processes, ensuring smooth, predictable, and auditable rollouts.
- Drive automation initiatives to reduce manual work, improve efficiency, and scale operations.
- Champion the development and adoption of tools for monitoring, observability, and incident response.
- Coordinate and participate in on-call rotations while continually improving incident management processes.
- Partner with software engineering leaders to align infrastructure with product and business needs.
- Advocate for best practices in cloud architecture, configuration management, and Infrastructure as Code.
What were looking for:
- Proven leadership experience managing DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or infrastructure engineering teams.
- Hands-on experience running production workloads in medium-to-large Kubernetes clusters (tens to hundreds of nodes).
- Strong knowledge of public cloud services (AWS preferred) and hybrid infrastructure strategies.
- Proficiency with configuration management (Chef, Ansible) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Background in scripting and programming (Shell, C#, PowerShell, SQL, or similar).
- Familiarity with distributed version control systems (Git).
- Solid system administration expertise in both Linux and Windows environments.
- A collaborative mindset with strong communication skills, able to bridge technical and business priorities.
- A proactive problem-solver who thrives on scaling systems and processes.
You would really wow us if:
- You bring experience with datacenter technologies (storage, networking, virtualization).
- You have successfully led teams through high-severity production incidents and implemented learnings.
- You demonstrate strong understanding of relational databases and SQL.
- You have experience acting as a scrum master or project manager, helping teams deliver outcomes efficiently.
Estimated Salary Range: $138,000-170,000
Actual salary will be determined based on factors including, but not limited to, skill set and level of experience. This salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Strata also provides discretionary variable pay programs based on role. In addition, Strata provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits, health and welfare benefits, paid time off, parental leave, life and accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits.
Find out more about Strata benefits here.
How we work:
The preferred location for this role is in Chicago, IL or St. Louis, MO. We value our people spending time together and have campuses hosting in-person events located in both cities. We are truly a hybrid environment with all team members experiencing the flexibility to work from home.
Thinking about applying?
Research shows that women and underrepresented groups tend to apply to jobs only when they check every box on a job posting. If youre currently reading this and hesitating to click Apply for that reason, we encourage you to go for it! A true passion and excitement for making an impact is just as important as work experience.
Should you require a reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please reach out to careers@stratadecision.com.
Here @ Strata
Our culture is driven by our people solving problems together. We embrace learning, collaboration, and continuous career growth. Together, we lift our customers, our products, our company, and our community.
We believe that each of our team members unique perspectives and experiences is what drives innovation and positive change. Our individual differences are what make us a more forward-thinking organization. We foster a culture of inclusion, equity and belonging, regardless of race, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.
Our Core Values:
While we celebrate what makes each member of our team unique, our core values are what connect us. They set clear expectations for how we approach our work and how each of us can positively influence the experience of our team and our customers.
- We connect with positive intent.
- We are helpful.
- We own it.
- We get better every day.
- We are humble.
