Associate DevOps Manager

Associate DevOps Manager at HiBob

HiBob helps modern, mid-size businesses transform the way they manage people, giving HR and managers all they need to connect, engage, develop, and retain top talent. Since 2015, we’ve achieved consecutive triple-digit year-over-year growth, all backed by our amazing team of Bobbers from across the globe, making us the choice HRIS of over 4000 midsize and multinational companies.Our HR platform is intuitive, data-driven, and built for the way people work today: globally, remotely, and collaboratively.

Come and be you with us. Being a Bobber is all about being you. We want you to bring all parts of yourself to work, giving you the freedom and confidence to be the best you and do your best work. If that’s bubbly, shy, precise, funny, bold, kind, honest, brilliant, or anything in between, we’re waiting with open arms. Come join us.

As an Associate DevOps Manager, this will be a player-coach role. You will manage and mentor one Senior DevOps Engineer while spending 60–80% of your time hands-on designing, building, and operating production systems. You will be deeply involved in supporting AI-focused projects such as: automating complex deployment workflows to reduce manual effort and speed up releases, using predictive models to detect system anomalies before they cause downtime, building and maintaining an AI-driven Slack bot that helps developers debug and deploy more efficiently, and more! You will also be involved in supporting cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitOps, observability, and internal developer platforms, with a strong focus on developer enablement and operational excellence. This role is ideal for a senior DevOps engineer who wants to lead without giving up deep technical ownership.

This is a fully remote role; however, you must be physically located in EST or CST and willing and able to work EST hours Monday-Friday and participate in on-call rotations. We cannot consider candidates located in MST or PST at this time.

Base salary for this role ranges from $180,000 - $240,000 per year.

Job Requirements

• 7+ years of experience as a DevOps / Platform Engineer. Must be able to pass 2 technical interviews.
• 2+ years of people management experience. Mentorship experience does not count.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS or a similar public cloud
• Proven experience running Kubernetes in production, including Helm
• Strong experience with CI/CD and GitOps (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD)
• Solid background in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform; Crossplane is a plus)
• Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking, and security
• Experience working in SaaS, production-heavy, multi-team environments

Strong Advantages

• Experience with AI / LLM-based tooling or intelligent automation in DevOps
• Experience with the Argo ecosystem (Workflows, Events, Rollouts)
• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, or similar)
• Experience building developer platforms or internal tooling
• Experience with ephemeral environments

Job Responsibilities

Hands-On Technical Ownership (60–80%)

• Design, build, and operate production-grade Kubernetes infrastructure in AWS
• Build and evolve GitOps-based CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and ArgoCD
• Develop internal DevOps tooling and developer self-service platforms
• Lead implementation of automation and AI-assisted DevOps workflows
• Own systems end-to-end: from design and code to deployment, monitoring, and incidents

Team Leadership & Mentorship

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of DevOps engineers
• Provide technical guidance through architecture reviews, code reviews, and pairing
• Conduct regular 1:1s, goal-setting, and continuous feedback
• Create a culture of ownership, learning, and operational responsibility

Platform & Operational Excellence

• Own the full delivery lifecycle from source code to production
• Design and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability using Datadog
• Define and track KPIs, SLOs, and operational metrics
• Improve reliability, security, cost efficiency, and disaster recovery practices
• Participate in incident response and post-incident reviews

Cross-Team Impact

• Work closely with R&D, Security, and Product teams to enable fast and safe delivery
• Lead cross-team DevOps initiatives by doing, not just coordinating
• Translate developer pain points into scalable platform solutions

Job Benefits

HiBob is a village filled with amazing people and we’re especially proud of that. It’s a place where Bobbers can be themselves. We’re about fun, dreams, hopes and ambition, just as much as we are about precision, growth, and top performance. Becoming a Bobber means you’ll receive competitive compensation, benefits, and pre-IPO equity alongside all of this:

• Stock options at a high-growth unicorn startup
• 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees
• 401(k) with a 3% company match starting from Day 1
• Hybrid working model for bobbers in the NY metro area
• Work from home allowance to get your home office set up!
• Temporary remote work-from-anywhere in the world for up to 2 months after 6 months of employment
• Annual Headspace subscription and wellness benefits
• Two social impact days per year for volunteering
• Bob balance days - 4 additional days within a calendar year - Enjoy a company-wide long weekend at the beginning of each quarter
• Employee referral program - $2,500 bonus for each successful referral with an additional ambassador bonus
• Fun and frequent social events (in-person and virtual)
• We love birthdays - take the day off and receive a special gift
• Dog-friendly office

If this sounds like something you’ve been looking for, we’d love to have you. Come on, join our village!

Location Eligibility: While this is a remote position, HiBob is currently authorized to hire in the following states: CA. CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, MN, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA. Will consider Canadian residents as well! Candidates must reside in one of these states to be considered for employment.

Key skills/competency

• DevOps
• Kubernetes
• AWS
• CI/CD
• GitOps
• Terraform
• AI/LLM
• Observability
• Leadership
• Developer Enablement