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 AccuWeather's 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.
RESPONSIBILITIESLead, develop, and support a team of engineers including performance management, goal setting, career development, hiring, and resource planningDefine and execute the DevOps roadmap in alignment with Technology and Business prioritiesDrive adoption of AI across DevOps to improve productivity, delivery, infrastructure management, troubleshooting, and operational efficiencyIdentify and implement opportunities to use AI and intelligent automation with measurable improvements in speed, quality, or efficiencyProvide technical leadership across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, deployment automation, observability, and production operationsEnsure AccuWeather’s platforms and services are highly available, scalable, secure, maintainable, and recoverableContinuously improve the SDLC by reducing manual processes, improving deployment safety, and enabling greater developer self-serviceEstablish and evolve standards and best practices for cloud infrastructure, configuration management, containers, automation, and operational toolingImprove monitoring, logging, alerting, application performance visibility, and overall observability across supported platformsLead and improve incident response, root cause analysis, post-incident reviews, disaster recovery, and operational readiness practicesPartner internally to identify and address technical debt, reliability risks, scalability constraints, and operational efficienciesManage cloud and infrastructure capacity, utilization, and cost; identify opportunities to optimize technology spend without compromising reliability or performanceIncorporate security and compliance requirements into infrastructure, deployment, access, secrets management, and operational practicesBuild strong partnerships across AccuWeather and help drive shared ownershipQUALIFICATIONSBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience8+ years of progressive experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, site reliability, software engineering, or a related field3+ years of experience managing and developing technical employeesStrong technical understanding of modern cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS and CDN’s such as Akamai or CloudflareStrong technical understanding of CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automation, networking, containers, observability, and production operationsExperience supporting highly available web, mobile, API, data, or other large-scale platformsExperience with incident management, monitoring and alerting, root-cause-analysis, disaster recovery, and production reliability practicesDemonstrated ability to balance reliability, delivery speed, security, technical debt, and infrastructure cost when making decisionsExperience managing cloud or infrastructure spend and identifying cost-optimization opportunitiesStrong critical-thinking and problem-solving skillsExcellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical risks, options, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiencesStrong collaboration skills and demonstrated ability to lead initiatives across teamsSelf-driven, adaptable, accountable, and committed to continuous improvementAbout AccuWeather AccuWeather, recognized and documented as the most accurate and most used source of weather forecasts and warnings in the world, has saved over 12,000 lives, prevented injury to over 100,000 people, and saved companies tens of billions of dollars through better planning and decision-making. Billions of people around the world rely on AccuWeather’s proven Superior Accuracy across our consumer digital platforms. AccuWeather.com is 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 Netwo