Remote – Senior Manager – DevOps/Platform Engineering

Lead and optimize end-to-end software delivery and DevOps engineering practices across the organization by driving automation, infrastructure-as-code, and engineering excellence to improve deployment speed, system reliability, code quality, and security across multi-cloud environments in China business operations.

• Engineering Delivery Leadership
  Lead end-to-end software delivery processes, ensuring high performance in speed, quality, and reliability of deployment cycles.
• DevOps & CI/CD Strategy Execution
  Design and implement continuous integration, continuous delivery, and automated deployment pipelines across engineering teams.
• Infrastructure-as-Code & Cloud Management
  Manage infrastructure-as-code solutions and multi-cloud environments, ensuring scalability, stability, and operational efficiency.
• Technical Coaching & Team Development
  Mentor and coach engineering teams to strengthen coding practices, DevOps maturity, and problem-solving capability.
• Code Quality, Security & Standards Governance
  Define and enforce engineering standards, secure coding practices, and automated quality controls.
• System Optimization & Bottleneck Removal
  Identify and resolve technical bottlenecks in development, deployment, and system performance.
• Automation & Engineering Productivity Improvement
  Drive automation initiatives to improve development efficiency, reduce manual effort, and optimize workflows.
• Cross-Functional DevOps Collaboration
  Collaborate with product, engineering, and infrastructure teams to deliver integrated and consistent platform solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field
• Minimum 8–12 years of experience in software engineering / DevOps / platform engineering roles
• At least 3–5 years in technical leadership or senior engineering management role
• Proven experience in CI/CD implementation, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps transformation
• Experience managing multi-cloud or large-scale distributed systems preferred
• Experience working in global or China-based technology environments is an advantage
• Strong English communication skills; Mandarin is an advantage
• Leadership & Behavioral Skills
• Strong technical leadership and hands-on engineering capability
• Coaching and mentoring engineering teams
• Problem-solving and critical thinking under complex environments
• Ability to challenge existing architecture and drive innovation
• Cross-functional collaboration with product and engineering teams
• Strong ownership mindset and accountability for delivery outcomes
• Change management and engineering transformation leadership

Technical Skills

• Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure (Tencent, Alibaba Cloud, AWS) and cluster management tools like Kubernetes
• Experience creating automated continuous deployment pipelines using tools such as Github actions or Gitlab CI/CD
• Extensive coding experience with Terraform, Python, bash, and shell scripts
• Hands-on experience with observability tooling — Prometheus metrics collection, Grafana dashboards, alerting rules, and log aggregation (ELK / Loki)

• Deep experience managing core infra components — API gateways, CDN configuration, load balancer tuning
• VPC and network design proficiency — subnet segmentation, security groups, private/public tier separation, VPN/peering, and egress control

Operational Management

• Strong understanding of distributed systems design — service discovery, fault tolerance, eventual consistency, and horizontal scalability
• Cybersecurity best practices — secrets management (Vault / KMS), SAST/DAST pipeline integration, least-privilege IAM, and secure supply chain (image signing, SBOM)
• Cloud cost management expertise — resource tagging strategies, rightsizing, reserved/spot instance planning, and FinOps reporting

Benefits

• Full social insurance and housing fund
• Year-end bonus
• Phone allowance
• Transportation allowance

Best Culture

• Clear focus.
• Diverse Workplace (Our members are from around the world!)
• Non-hierarchical and agile environment
• Growth opportunity and career path

Originally posted on Himalayas