Material Bank® · 4 days ago
Sr. Manager, DevOps and AWS Infrastructure
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expMaterial Bank is the world’s largest material marketplace for the architecture and design industry. As Sr. Manager, DevOps, you will ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of systems critical to the company's growth, overseeing AWS infrastructure strategy and leading a global team in Site Reliability, DevOps, and AWS Infrastructure.
ArchitectureIndustrial DesignInterior DesignMarketplaceRetail
Responsibilities
Lead & Manage: Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and career development for your team of direct reports and outsourced contributors
Architect & Scale: Design, implement, and optimize AWS cloud infrastructure with a focus on global scalability, high availability, and security
Infrastructure-as-Code: Deliver scalable Cloud infrastructure that is maintainable, and repeatable using Terraform and CloudFormation
Platform Engineering: Own and evolve our orchestration platforms, enabling teams to run services reliably at scale through automation
CI/CD Ownership: Build and maintain modern CI/CD pipelines, enabling continuous integration, testing, and deployment across multiple services and geographies
Data & Event Systems: Manage and optimize event-driven and data-processing systems including Kafka for real-time streaming and Airflow for workflow orchestration
Identity & Security: Implement and maintain Keycloak or equivalent IAM solutions for secure authentication/authorization
Enable Engineers: Create self-service and automation frameworks that empower product teams to deploy and operate services independently
Reliability Engineering: Deliver monitoring, alerting, observability, and self-healing systems for cloud infrastructure and critical services
Strategic Ownership: Drive continuous improvement in performance, cost efficiency, resilience, and platform maturity across AWS services
Qualification
Required
8+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, or related software engineering fields
5+ years of hands-on experience architecting, scaling, and operating production systems on AWS
3+ years of team management or technical leadership experience aligning infrastructure strategies with business needs
Experience mentoring engineers, leading roadmaps, and balancing hands-on work with strategic leadership
Strong decision-making skills in fast-paced, high-growth environments
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master's a plus). Equivalent experience considered
AWS Core Services: EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, CloudFront, EBS, EFS
AWS Advanced Services: EKS, ECS, Lambda, Kinesis, MSK (Kafka), Secrets Manager, Step Functions, Systems Manager
Infrastructure-as-Code: Strong proficiency in Terraform and CloudFormation
Containerization & Orchestration: Expertise in Kubernetes and Docker
CI/CD Pipelines: Proven experience designing and managing pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or equivalent)
Streaming & Workflow: Hands-on experience with Kafka (or AWS MSK) and Airflow
Identity Management: Knowledge of Keycloak or similar IAM/SSO solutions
Programming/Scripting: Strong in Python, Bash, or Go for automation and tooling
Systems: Proficient in Linux systems, networking, and AWS security best practices
Preferred
Experience with Agile Scrum and/or Kanban methodologies
Exposure to Fastly or other CDN solutions
Background in software engineering in addition to infrastructure
Experience building a DevOps-first culture emphasizing automation, ownership, and reliability
Benefits
Flexible PTO
Sick Days
Paid National Holidays
Health Benefits
401(k) eligible after your first 90 day's employed
Giving Back
Flexible Work Schedules
Company
Material Bank®
Material Bank is the fastest and most powerful way to search and sustainably sample design materials.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Material Bank® has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2024 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$323.2MKey Investors
Brookfield GrowthFJ LabsDurable Capital Partners,General Catalyst
2022-05-05Series D· $175M
2021-10-21Secondary Market
2021-05-06Series C· $100M
Leadership Team
Peter Fain
COO and Co-Founder
Stephen Smith
Chief Logistics Officer
Recent News
General Catalyst
2026-01-13
Google Patent
2025-05-04
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