Material Bank is the world’s largest material marketplace for the architecture and design industry. Operating in 37 countries, our platform has become the standard for design professionals around the globe. Every day, Material Bank connects thousands of designers with tens of thousands of materials from leading brands. Material Bank is the fastest and most powerful way for design professionals to search, sample, and specify materials.
As Sr. Manager, DevOps, you will play a critical role in enabling Material Bank’s continued growth by owning the reliability, scalability, and performance of the systems every team depends on. As our catalog of products, materials, and digital assets continues to expand, this role ensures we have a secure, resilient, and future ready cloud foundation that supports rapid innovation while protecting trust and uptime. You will be the single threaded owner of our AWS infrastructure strategy, bringing strong technical judgment to how we scale, optimize, and evolve our platform in partnership with engineering and product leaders.
This is a senior leadership role for someone who blends deep technical expertise with a strong sense of ownership and operational rigor. You understand what it takes to run highly available systems at scale, and you are comfortable moving between architecture decisions, hands on problem solving, and people leadership. You will lead a high impact global team across Site Reliability, DevOps, and AWS Infrastructure, coaching engineers, setting technical direction, and rolling up your sleeves when needed to ensure performance, reliability, and speed remain uncompromised as the business grows.
What You’ll Do
- 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.
What You’ll Bring
- 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.
Technical Expertise
- 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.
Nice to Have:
- 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.
What you’ll get from us:
- Our people: We are a growth-driven team that values efficiency, builds smart automation, operates in small empowered teams, and moves quickly from idea to execution.
- Relaxation and Celebrations: Flexible PTO, Sick Days, Paid National Holidays, and even more (ask us about this when we connect).
- Health Benefits: We contribute to your medical, dental, vision and short-term/long-term disability plans and have a strong employee assistance program.
- Plan for your Retirement: 401(k) eligible after your first 90 day's employed!
- Giving Back: We sponsor multiple events throughout the year to help out our communities.
- Growth: We’ll help you take your career to the next level. We want you to be creative and take initiative which will allow you to grow and create within the company. Most importantly, be the best at what matters!
- Flexible Work Schedules: With business units and employees across the globe, Material Bank has embraced a hybrid working model allowing department leaders to decide on the best approach for their respective teams, whether that be remote, in person, or a little of both.
What you’ll get from us:
- Our people: We are a growth-driven team that values efficiency, builds smart automation, operates in small empowered teams, and moves quickly from idea to execution.
- Relaxation and Celebrations: Flexible PTO, Sick Days, Paid National Holidays, and even more (ask us about this when we connect).
- Health Benefits: We contribute to your medical, dental, vision and short-term/long-term disability plans and have a strong employee assistance program.
- Plan for your Retirement: 401(k) eligible after your first 90 day's employed!
- Giving Back: We sponsor multiple events throughout the year to help out our communities.
- Growth: We’ll help you take your career to the next level. We want you to be creative and take initiative which will allow you to grow and create within the company. Most importantly, be the best at what matters!
- Flexible Work Schedules: With business units and employees across the globe, Material Technologies has embraced a hybrid working model allowing department leaders to decide on the best approach for their respective teams, whether that be remote, in person, or a little of both.
Material Bank is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity, and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, veteran or disability status or other status protected under any applicable federal, state or local law.
