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Fivetran

DevOps Manager

Fivetran, Oakland, California, United States, 94616

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Position Title: DevOps Manager

From Fivetran founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. Were proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.

About the Role Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.

As a Manager of Site Reliability Engineering, you will take on the responsibility for the Serbia-based group of SRE Engineers. Together with other SRE managers and engineers in Ireland, India, and the US, you will take ownership of the reliability of Fivetran’s service, including building and monitoring repeatable infrastructure, reliability, and robustness of the continuously deployed release pipeline, as well as timely and effective incident response and resolution. You will co‑own the responsibility for the scalability and reliability of Fivetran’s connector infrastructure on AWS, GCP, and Azure. You will bring together and grow a Serbia‑based team that reliably delivers excellent results while maintaining a culture of strong collaboration, engagement, and continuous improvement.

This is a full‑time position based out of our Novi Sad office. Our hybrid work model offers a blend of remote flexibility and in‑person collaboration, including two days in the office each week to connect and build as a team.

Technologies You’ll Use

AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

EKS, AKS, GKE (managed services)

Buildkite, ArgoCD

PostgreSQL, Cloud Datastore

Go, Java

Python, Shell

Terraform, Pulumi

FastAPI (RESTful APIs)

PrivateLinks (AWS, Azure), Private Service Connect (GCP), site‑to‑site VPNs across major cloud providers

Grafana

What You’ll Do Leadership and Talent Management

Build, hire, and plan the growth of the Serbia‑based SRE organization

Help engineers advance in their careers; act as a coach

Set clear expectations and create a positive work environment based on accountability

Establish strong global and cross‑team relationships with product, field, software teams, and the other SRE teams around the world

SRE Subject Matter Expertise

Drive initiatives that improve service reliability, scalability, and performance through automation, observability, and proactive problem‑solving

Advocate for simple, elegant, and easily scalable system design

Support new services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting/review, capacity planning, and launch reviews

Be hands‑on and willing to act as player‑coach in SRE areas such as IaC, Observability & Alerting, and Release Management

Demonstrate strong accountability for infrastructure cost management

Optimize our continuous integration and deployment process, striving for safe, frequent, and automated releases

Oversee incident management practices, ensuring timely response, effective/blameless postmortems, and systemic improvements

Stay current with emerging technologies, tools, and industry best practices relevant to reliability engineering

Skills Were Looking For

Experience in managing or leading an SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering team operating in a public cloud at scale

Demonstrate significant working knowledge of Continuous Integration and Deployment processes and tooling

Proven experience in cloud‑based infrastructure design and IaC

Strong understanding and experience in security control design, implementation, and operations

Solid technical working experience on AWS, GCP, or Azure, distributed systems, networking, and container orchestration (Kubernetes)

Deep understanding of reliability concepts, including monitoring/observability, capacity planning, and disaster recovery

Experience leading incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability‑focused postmortems

Familiarity with cost optimization strategies in large‑scale cloud environments

Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills

Ability to iterate in the context of an evolving service environment

Experience in managing changes and getting buy‑in from the organization

A passion for SRE/DevOps and running highly resilient/automated systems

Optional Bonus Skills

Knowledge of compliance and security practices in production environments (SOC2, ISO27001, etc.)

Experience with multi‑cloud support

Hands‑on coding/scripting experience in languages such as Python, Go, or Java

Perks and Benefits

100% employer‑paid medical insurance

Generous paid time‑off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, and volunteer days off

RSU stock grants

Professional development and training opportunities

Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team‑building activities

Monthly cell phone stipend

Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as therapy, coaching, and self‑guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents

May vary by country and worker type – please reach out to your recruiter for more information

We are committed to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to participate in our interview process. If you require accommodations at any stage of the process due to a disability, medical condition, or any other circumstance, please don’t hesitate to submit your request by filling out a form. We will work with you to provide reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation and ensure a fair and accessible interview experience. Your request and any information provided will be kept confidential and will not impact your candidacy. We look forward to hearing from you and accommodating your needs to the best of our ability.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/protected veterans.

Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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