Manager, Devops Engineering

NetSPI® pioneered Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) and leads the industry in modern pentesting. Combining world-class security professionals with AI and automation, NetSPI delivers clarity, speed, and scale across 50+ pentest types, attack surface management, and vulnerability prioritization. The NetSPI platform streamlines workflows and accelerates remediation, enabling our experts to focus on deep dive testing that uncovers vulnerabilities others miss. Trusted by the top 10 U.S. banks and Fortune 500 companies worldwide, NetSPI has been driving security innovation since 2001.

NetSPI is on an exciting growth journey as we disrupt and improve the proactive security market. We are looking for individuals with a collaborative, innovative, and customer-first mindset to join our team. Learn more about our award-winning workplace culture and get to know our A-Team at www.netspi.com/careers.

We’re looking for a DevOps Manager to lead a remote team of DevOps engineers responsible for the infrastructure, reliability, and operational backbone of a modern cybersecurity SaaS platform.

This is a hands-on leadership role (approximately 50/50 technical and people leadership) for someone who wants to elevate and modernize an existing DevOps practice. You will own our cloud environments, CI/CD architecture, cost optimization strategy, and infrastructure reliability standards, while building a team culture grounded in accountability, automation, and measurable outcomes. You’ll operate as a partner within engineering leadership, influencing standards and architectural decisions across the organization.

If you believe operational excellence and pragmatic technological advocacy is a strategic advantage, we’d love to meet you.

Responsibilities

• Lead, support, and grow a fully remote team DevOps team through clear expectations, coaching, and regular feedback
• Remain hands-on in infrastructure design, architecture reviews, and critical problem-solving
• Own AWS cloud environments across development, staging, and production needs
• Define and evolve CI/CD architecture, standards, and automation strategy
• Champion engineering excellence, including code quality, documentation, observability, and operational reliability
• Modernize infrastructure-as-code practices and deployment workflows
• Partner with corporate security to strengthen our cloud security posture and hardening
• Improve developer experience by reducing friction in build, test, and deployment workflows
• Foster a healthy, sustainable development culture grounded in trust, accountability, and continuous improvement
• Use modern, outcome-based metrics to understand team health, delivery effectiveness, and system performance
• Support agile ways of working while remaining pragmatic about what best serves the team and the product

Our General Tech Stack

• Languages in ecosystem: Java, Python, Go, C#, TypeScript
• Infrastructure: AWS (ECS, EKS, Fargate, Lambda, S3, RDS Aurora)
• Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform
• Observability: Datadog, AWS
• Operations and Incident Response: PagerDuty
• Data: PostgreSQL
• Platform: Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions, CI/CD
• Orchestration: Temporal

You’ll Thrive Here If You

• Lead with clarity, empathy, and confidence, even when navigating ambiguity or difficult trade-offs
• Are equally comfortable leading people and debugging infrastructure
• View cost optimization as an engineering discipline
• See quality, documentation, and performance as part of the job, not optional extras
• Communicate with candor and care, and value respectful disagreement as a path to better outcomes
• Bring calm, structured, leadership during incidents
• Know how to strike a balance between ambition and pragmatic execution
• Enjoy learning and evolving technically, professionally, and personally
• Believe diverse perspectives make teams and products stronger
• Take ownership seriously and feel motivated by work that has real impact
• Approach systems thinking with rigor, curiosity, and a bias toward root-cause understanding
• Balance urgency with intentionality, knowing that sustainable progress beats rushed solutions

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience building and shipping large-scale software systems
• 2+ years of experience leading DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering teams
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS architecture and services
• Deep experience with infrastructure as code (terraform or equivalent)
• Experience designing and managing CI/CD systems as scale
• Working proficiency in one or more languages from our stack and relational databases
• Strong understanding of containerization and cloud-based architectures (Docker, AWS)
• Comfort debugging complex systems and improving performance and reliability
• Experience with software quality best practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate degree in a related technical field
• Background in cybersecurity SaaS or regulated environments
• Familiarity with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and similar compliance frameworks
• Experience implementing pragmatic SRE principles and transforming or modernizing a DevOps function