Sr. DevOps Engineering Manager

We’re Cleerly – a healthcare company revolutionizing how heart disease is diagnosed, treated, and tracked. Founded in 2017 by one of the world’s leading cardiologists, we are a growing team of world-class engineering, operations, medical affairs, marketing, and sales leaders. We raised $223M in Series C funding in 2022 and an additional $106M in a Series C extension in December 2024. Most teams work remotely with access to offices in Denver, Colorado; New York, New York; Dallas, Texas; and Lisbon, Portugal. Some roles require on-site presence.

Cleerly has created a new standard of care for heart disease through value-based, AI-driven precision diagnostic solutions aimed at preventing heart attacks. Our technology enables comprehensive quantification and characterization of atherosclerosis (plaque buildup) in heart arteries, supported by over a decade of clinical trials.

We collaborate digitally using Google Workspace (GMail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides), Slack, Confluence/Jira, and Zoom. While mostly remote, some travel is required for team meetings or cross-functional projects—typically once per month or quarter. Sales or external-facing roles may require up to 90% travel.

About the Role

Cleerly is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineering Manager to lead the development, deployment, and operation of our next-generation healthcare diagnostic platform. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management, focusing on scalable cloud infrastructure, software delivery processes, and ensuring reliability, security, and maintainability. You will partner with software engineering, product, security, quality, and other cross-functional teams to support regulated healthcare software.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and evolution of cloud infrastructure and DevOps capabilities for Cleerly’s healthcare technology platform.
• Architect, build, and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure for company applications and services.
• Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and software delivery processes.
• Manage and mentor DevOps, platform, and/or software engineering individual contributors.
• Establish technical direction, engineering standards, and operational best practices for cloud infrastructure and software delivery.
• Build and manage infrastructure using Terraform and other Infrastructure-as-Code technologies.
• Partner with software engineering teams to integrate infrastructure, deployment, monitoring, and security solutions into application development workflows.
• Improve system reliability, availability, scalability, observability, and performance.
• Implement and maintain cloud and application security controls.
• Participate in architectural and technical design reviews across engineering teams.
• Develop and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident-response capabilities.
• Support production systems and investigate/resolve complex technical issues.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Security, Quality, and other functions to ensure timely product delivery.
• Align platform and infrastructure priorities with Agile/Sprint development processes.
• Translate product and engineering requirements into practical infrastructure and software-delivery solutions.
• Ensure engineering practices comply with quality-management and regulated-software requirements.
• Serve as a technical subject-matter expert and escalation point for engineers.
• Coach engineers and create professional development and growth plans.
• Recruit, interview, onboard, and mentor new engineering team members.
• Represent the DevOps/platform engineering function to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Establish project timelines, assess engineering capacity, and support resource planning.
• Prepare and deliver technical and operational presentations to leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Engineering, or a closely related technical field.
• 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering, DevOps, site reliability engineering, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, or operating cloud infrastructure and automated software-delivery systems.
• 3+ years of technical leadership experience, including architecture, technical direction, mentoring, or leading complex engineering initiatives.
• 2+ years of direct people-management experience, including performance management, coaching, hiring, and professional development.
• 5+ years of experience with AWS or comparable cloud infrastructure (strong AWS experience required).
• 3+ years of experience building or managing CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation in production environments.
• 3+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or comparable technology).
• Experience with containerized and/or distributed application environments.
• Experience with production monitoring, observability, incident response, and system reliability.
• Experience integrating security practices into cloud infrastructure and software-delivery processes.

Skills

Qualified candidates should demonstrate proficiency in the following:

• At least two programming or scripting languages, such as:
  • Python
  • TypeScript/JavaScript
  • Java
  • C#/C++
  • Ruby/Rust
  • Bash or Shell scripting
• AWS services and cloud architecture.
• Infrastructure as Code (preferably Terraform or CloudFormation).
• CI/CD and build automation technologies, such as:
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
  • Jenkins
  • Maven/Gradle
• Containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS ECS/EKS).
• Web-service and API architectures (RESTful APIs; GraphQL a plus).
• Relational and/or NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, OracleDB2, MongoDB, DynamoDB).
• Web and cloud security, performance tuning, scalability, and high-availability architecture.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading DevOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, or Site Reliability Engineering teams.
• Experience supporting software in regulated environments (healthcare, medical devices, fintech, or compliance-sensitive industries).
• Experience with AWS EKS and Kubernetes-based production environments.
• Experience establishing SRE practices, service-level objectives, operational metrics, and incident-management processes.
• Experience with observability platforms (Datadog, CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus).
• Experience developing security controls and working with Security, Quality, or Compliance teams.
• Experience supporting highly available production systems.
• Familiarity with regulated software-development lifecycle requirements and quality-management systems.

Schedule

Less than 5% domestic travel is expected. A work-from-home arrangement is available subject to company policy.

Pay

The base salary range for this role varies by location and is aligned to market benchmarks. Candidates in higher-cost labor markets (e.g., California, Washington, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Washington, DC) generally represent the middle to high end of the range, while others represent the low to middle end. Final compensation is determined based on location, experience, skills, and internal equity.

• Base Salary: $179,000–$219,000
• Total Target Compensation: $205,000–$251,000 (includes base salary and 15% target annual bonus)

Total rewards also include stock options, paid benefits, and employee perks.

Benefits

Working at Cleerly takes HEART. Our core values are:

• H: Humility – be a servant leader
• E: Excellence – deliver world-changing results
• A: Accountability – do what you say; expect the same from others
• R: Remarkable – inspire & innovate with impact
• T: Teamwork – together we win