Engineering Manager, DevOps & Reliability

Group 1001 is a consumer-centric, technology-driven family of insurance companies on a mission to deliver outstanding value and operational performance by combining financial strength and stability with deep insurance expertise and a can-do culture. Group1001’s culture emphasizes the importance of collaboration, communication, core business focus, risk management, and striving for outcomes. This goal extends to how we hire and onboard our most valuable assets – our employees.

Company Overview:

Gainbridge, a part of the Group 1001 enterprise, is a self-managed, innovative, digital platform providing its clients with direct access to trusted financial products to smartly grow their savings over time. Gainbridge strives to offer products through its platform that are simple, intuitive, and backed by smart technology with no complexity or hidden fees. Gainbridge empowers clients to take control of the financial future with simple solutions that are accessible to everyone no matter their budget.

Why This Role Matters:

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager, DevOps & Reliability to lead our DevOps SRE team. This person will be responsible for the reliability, scalability, and security of our cloud-native systems, and will help shape the engineering culture and technical strategy for infrastructure at Gainbridge.

You will oversee a team of SREs and DevOps engineers, partner with cross-functional engineering leaders, and drive operational excellence across CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and observability practices. This is a critical leadership role with both strategic and technical influence, directly supporting the reliability of our platform and the productivity of our engineering teams.

How You'll Contribute:

• Lead and grow a high-performing team of DevOps and SRE engineers responsible for infrastructure, reliability, and cloud operations.
• Define and drive the technical roadmap for infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and incident response.

• Ensure high availability, performance, and security of systems deployed on AWS using Kubernetes and Terraform.

• Champion modern DevOps and SRE practices across engineering, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

• Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to set SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets, ensuring reliable delivery of customer-facing products.

• Drive incident management process including root cause analysis, blameless postmortems, and follow-through on corrective actions. 

• Partner closely with Security and Compliance to meet rigorous security and regulatory standards for our infrastructure and operations.

• Provide mentorship, performance feedback, and career development support for direct reports.

What We're Looking For:

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering, with at least 3 years in a technical management or leadership role.
• Proven success leading and scaling platform engineering or SRE teams in a cloud-first, production-critical environment.

• Deep experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD tooling such as ArgoCD.
• Experience building automation pipelines using Argo Workflows or similar tools.

• Strong background in observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.

• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders.

• Track record of designing systems for reliability and scale in regulated or enterprise environments—experience in financial services is a plus.

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
   

Compensation:

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $180,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $250,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on factors such as market location, job-related skills, and experience.

Benefits Highlights:  

Employees who meet benefit eligibility guidelines and work 30 hours or more weekly, have the ability to enroll in Group 1001’s benefits package. Employees (and their families) are eligible to participate in the Company’s comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plan options.  Employees are also eligible for Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance, Short and Long-Term Disability. All employees (regardless of hours worked) have immediate access to the Company’s Employee Assistance Program and wellness programs—no enrollment is required.  Employees may also participate in the Company’s 401K plan, with matching contributions by the Company.

Group 1001, and its affiliated companies, is strongly committed to providing a supportive work environment where employee differences are valued. Diversity is an essential ingredient in making Group 1001 a welcoming place to work and is fundamental in building a high-performance team. Diversity embodies all the differences that make us unique individuals.  All employees share the responsibility for maintaining a workplace culture of dignity, respect, understanding and appreciation of individual and group differences.