DevOps Manager

Job Summary: Specright is looking to hire a DevOps Manager to lead our cloud infrastructure and platform engineering efforts. In this role you will manage a team of DevOps engineers while remaining hands-on with architecture decisions and development work. You will own the reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency of our AWS infrastructure while building internal tools and automation using modern full-stack technologies. You will work cross-functionally with teams including Engineering, Product Management, and Customer Success.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Lead, mentor, and grow a geographically distributed team of DevOps and infrastructure engineers across the US and internationally
• Own AWS infrastructure strategy including architecture, security, and cost optimization across multiple accounts
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, monitoring systems, and alerting infrastructure
• Build internal tooling and dashboards using React and Node.js to improve developer experience
• Manage Kubernetes (EKS) clusters and containerized workloads at scale
• Drive reliability initiatives including SLOs, incident response, and capacity planning
• Partner with engineering teams to improve deployment velocity and reduce operational toil
• Establish and enforce security best practices, IAM policies, and compliance requirements

Qualifications

• Minimum BS in Computer Science or related technical field
• 7+ years experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering
• 2+ years experience in a technical leadership or management role
• Deep expertise in AWS services (EC2, EKS, RDS, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch)
• Experience with React and Node.js development for internal tooling
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Proficiency with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and CI/CD tools
• Experience managing cloud costs and optimizing spend at scale
• Experience building complex infrastructure systems and communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements and define technical strategy
• Understanding of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience with agile development methodology
• Experience with message queuing systems (RabbitMQ, SQS) is a plus
• Experience with observability platforms (Datadog, New Relic, Grafana) is a plus

About Specright

Specright offers cloud-based software (SaaS) for specification data management to Fortune 1000 companies with complex needs. Whether it's packaging, formulas or products, Specright helps companies reduce costs and empower efficiencies by sharing, analyzing and auditing specifications. Specright is disrupting the $1 Trillion packaging acquisition and specifications industry.

Our customers typically manage thousands to 10s of thousands of product SKU's. Currently, most rely on PDFs, spreadsheets, emails, phone calls and less than user-friendly ERP / PLM systems to manage all aspects of their specification needs--from procurement to quality assurance.

We believe that access to accurate specification data, plus the intelligence to make data-driven decisions is critical in today's operating environment. Although we are an early stage company, we have well-known companies as customers that believe what we believe. Companies like Dow Chemical, Johnson & Johnson, Flowers Foods (Wonder Bread, Nature's Own), The Wonderful Company (FIJI Water), and Starbucks trust us with their critical specification information, and rely on us to help them access the full power of that information to operate more efficiently.

Specright has a deep bench of product and packaging experts, and experienced technologists. Leadership has grown and sold successful packaging and technology companies, raised multiple rounds of VC capital including two rounds for Specright from select and prominent VC groups--we are well-funded and backed by some of the best.

Location

Remote, United States (Eastern Time zone required)

Culture

We are an energetic company with an entrepreneurial, informal, versatile, intelligent, and fast-paced culture. We promote an open and relatively flat organization with an emphasis on collaboration, sharing ideas and information. It's more important to innovate, then worry about making mistakes.

Perks

• Equity compensation
• Full benefits package that includes health, life, dental, 401k, etc.
• Unlimited PTO policy