Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (IaC)

Your Impact

Join us in shaping the future of infrastructure automation for law enforcement systems. Bring your leadership, technical expertise, and high bar for quality to a team that’s building the foundation for fast, reliable cloud services worldwide.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead efforts to transform our Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices, driving consistency, reliability, and speed across our cloud platforms. You'll own the development of IaC standards, best practices and delivery pipelines enabling teams to build and scale infrastructure safely and efficiently. With a platform-first mindset, you’ll champion automation in infrastructure delivery—reducing manual toil and accelerating our path to full infrastructure automation. Your leadership will ensure our infrastructure foundations remain resilient, reusable, and ready for global scale.

The ideal candidate has a passion for Infrastructure as Code and building robust delivery pipelines. You take pride in setting high standards for code quality and maintainability, and you thrive in environments where excellence in engineering practices is the norm. You lead a team of talented software and site reliability engineers, guiding them in developing scalable and efficient IaC delivery pipelines. You are driven to define and enforce coding standards that promote clarity, security, and operational excellence across the organization. You believe in making informed, data-driven decisions and use metrics and insights to continuously improve systems and team performance.

What You’ll Do

Location: Boston - This role can be mostly remote but we'd like folks nearby for the important stuff

Reports to: Senior Engineering Manager

Direct Reports: 4-8 Software and SRE Engineers

Leading a team of experienced engineers focused on building a fast, reliable, and scalable infrastructure delivery pipeline.

Championing and enforcing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices and coding standards.

Leading the technical direction of the team through architectural discussions

Driving the execution of your team by leading planning, prioritization, stand-ups, and team retro meetings.

Lead large scale projects that impact multiple engineering teams.

Working with product managers, senior engineers, and client teams to get ‘ahead of the curve' and explore new opportunities.

Join forces with recruiting to hire a top-notch engineering team.

Managing engineers and their careers with 1:1s and performance reviews.

What You Bring

8+ years of applicable experience and 3+ as a manager

A track record of planning and delivering on multiple overlapping projects spanning several months

Experience implementing an engineering process that emphasized security, availability, scalability, and operational discipline

Strong experience with Terraform, Terragrunt and CI/CD

Experience managing cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or similar.

Experience with Crossplane or Pulumi would be a plus

Experience using managed languages such as Go and Python or similar

Experience operating in Kubernetes platforms like AKS, EKS, or similar.

Empathy to support the needs of software engineers.

Benefits that Benefit You

Competitive salary and 401k with employer match

Discretionary paid time off

Paid parental leave for all

Medical, Dental, Vision plans

Fitness Programs

Emotional & Mental Wellness support

Learning & Development programs

And yes, we have snacks in our offices

Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work

Pay Transparency

The Pay: Axon is a total compensation company, meaning compensation is made up of base pay, bonus, and stock awards. The starting base pay for this role is between USD 142,500 in the lowest geographic market and USD 228,000 in the highest geographic market. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: level, function, training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, geographic market, and often a combination of all these factors. Our benefits offer an array of options to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. To see more details on our benefits offerings please visit