Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Manager DevOps role sits squarely in a modern SaaS reliability and platform function, supporting cloud infrastructure that underpins data-heavy products and algorithmic workloads. The listing signals a production environment where uptime, secure deployments, and cost discipline directly affect customer-facing decision systems, which is a common pressure point for analytics-led SaaS businesses operating at meaningful scale.
From a SaaS career perspective, the scope maps to the skills that stay valuable across product companies: designing repeatable CI/CD patterns, building for concurrency and disaster recovery, and shaping observability and operational standards. The emphasis on multi-team architecture, deployment hygiene, and security governance reflects the kind of platform maturity work that becomes increasingly important as SaaS products expand feature surface area and service count.
The role is best suited to an experienced DevOps or infrastructure leader who prefers a mix of hands-on technical ownership and cross-functional influence. It fits someone comfortable setting direction, mentoring engineers, and making pragmatic trade-offs between reliability, velocity, and cloud spend while partnering closely with engineering managers and data-oriented teams.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
DevOps Lead:
Top consumer brands like Nestle, Kimberly Clark, Natures Bounty, Johnson & Johnson, Mondelez, Kellogg to name a few rely on CommerceIQ suite of products to make efficient business decisions on a daily basis. It is critical to have services which run high quality data and algorithms that drive business decisions for our customers in a timely manner. As a DevOps you are responsible for building scalable, extensible, secure infrastructure on cloud for CommerceIQ’s applications and data science teams.
In this role, you will work with a couple of Infra/DevOps SDEs and partner with engineering managers to achieve CommerceIQ’s QoQ goals. As a DevOps lead, you will play a crucial role in upkeep security, cost, deployment infrastructure and maintain/develop services owned by Infra/DevOps team.
A successful candidate will be obsessed with technology and relentlessly raise the bar on the architecture, design and quality of code delivered while aggressively pursuing optimizations to meet cost and scale SLAs. The candidate should be capable of managing a fast-paced delivery schedule and influence and drive a high-level engineering strategy with the leadership, as well as take a hands-on approach to implementing that strategy.
Functional level Expectations
- You should possess advanced knowledge of AWS and other software design approaches to guide the DevOps team in designing infrastructure that caters to scale, concurrency. Preferably AWS certified.
- You should be able to work in situations where you can use your prior expertise and judgment to determine goals, identify constraints, and propose an actionable plan.
- Your work is typically focused on working with multiple teams’ architecture and product solutions.
- You should be able to lead the design and implementation that are extensible and scalable
- For continuous integration and deployment
- For multi cloud deployments
- For DR of various services with CiQ infrastructure
- You should be able to influence as a “team lead”, management decisions and priorities and actively mentor to create force multipliers
- You should drive teams to adhere to engineering best practices in SDLC like code coverage, acceptance testing, CI/CD and design patterns that ensure consistency and standardization of architecture
- You should proactively simplify code, identify bottlenecks and resolve team architecture deficiencies.
- You should be able to work along with other SDEs on their team, build relationships with stakeholders including customers, product managers, cross functional partners and external partners and integrate for a cohesive launch.
Required Skills
- At least 6-8 years of technology experience including 3+ years of working experience in cloud
- Ideal candidate should have handled operations, deployment and security of multiple SaaS/B2C products
- Deep knowledge of Python, Cloud or GoLang and one of the public clouds
- Good knowledge of log collection designs like EFK and metric collection tools like newrelic, Prometheus/Grafana or SignalFx
- Good knowledge in design, creation and consumption of RESTful API, Micro service architectures on public clouds preferably AWS
- Excellent analytical, communication and coding skills is a must.
- Thorough orientation towards code reviews, coding/design standards and documentation
- Good knowledge in designing with messaging systems such as SQS, Kafka.
- Good knowledge in designing with ETL pipelines using AWS Step, Azkaban, Airflow
- Good knowledge of any big data engine like Spark would be an advantage.
