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.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead, develop, and support a team of engineers including performance management, goal setting, career development, hiring, and resource planning
• Define and execute the DevOps roadmap in alignment with Technology and Business priorities
• Drive adoption of AI across DevOps to improve productivity, delivery, infrastructure management, troubleshooting, and operational efficiency
• Identify and implement opportunities to use AI and intelligent automation with measurable improvements in speed, quality, or efficiency
• Provide technical leadership across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, deployment automation, observability, and production operations
• Ensure AccuWeather’s platforms and services are highly available, scalable, secure, maintainable, and recoverable
• Continuously improve the SDLC by reducing manual processes, improving deployment safety, and enabling greater developer self-service
• Establish and evolve standards and best practices for cloud infrastructure, configuration management, containers, automation, and operational tooling
• Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, application performance visibility, and overall observability across supported platforms
• Lead and improve incident response, root cause analysis, post-incident reviews, disaster recovery, and operational readiness practices
• Partner internally to identify and address technical debt, reliability risks, scalability constraints, and operational efficiencies
• Manage cloud and infrastructure capacity, utilization, and cost; identify opportunities to optimize technology spend without compromising reliability or performance
• Incorporate security and compliance requirements into infrastructure, deployment, access, secrets management, and operational practices
• Build strong partnerships across AccuWeather and help drive shared ownership

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of progressive experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, site reliability, software engineering, or a related field
• 3+ years of experience managing and developing technical employees
• Strong technical understanding of modern cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS and CDN’s such as Akamai or Cloudflare
• Strong technical understanding of CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automation, networking, containers, observability, and production operations
• Experience supporting highly available web, mobile, API, data, or other large-scale platforms
• Experience with incident management, monitoring and alerting, root-cause-analysis, disaster recovery, and production reliability practices
• Demonstrated ability to balance reliability, delivery speed, security, technical debt, and infrastructure cost when making decisions
• Experience managing cloud or infrastructure spend and identifying cost-optimization opportunities
• Strong critical-thinking and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical risks, options, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong collaboration skills and demonstrated ability to lead initiatives across teams
• Self-driven, adaptable, accountable, and committed to continuous improvement

About 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 Network and AccuWeather NOW® reach an audience of over 125 million on cable and streaming platforms including DirecTV, Charter Communications - Spectrum, Verizon, Philo, Frndly TV, Comcast’s Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Stream, Roku, Xumo, Rockbot, LG, and Amazon Freevee.

AccuWeather For Business serves more than half of the Fortune 500 companies and thousands of other businesses and government agencies globally.

Dr. Joel Myers, Founder and Executive Chairman, established AccuWeather in 1962 and is considered the “father of modern commercial meteorology.” Myers, a leading creative thinker and visionary, has been called “the most accurate man in weather” by The New York Times and has been recognized as one of the top entrepreneurs in American history by Entrepreneur’s Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

AccuWeather is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

AccuWeather is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to human.resources@accuweather.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.