Sr DevOps Manager

Location: This is a fully remote position within a globally distributed company. It is open to candidates located in the EMEA region who wish to work remotely. Preferred locations include Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Due to our compensation strategy, we will not consider applicants from high-cost-of-living areas such as Benelux, DACH, France, Spain, the Nordics, and the UK.

About the job

Testlio is a leading quality management company. Its unique, AI-powered approach combines humans and machines to help digital innovators assure quality products at scale. On 600K+ real devices. In 100+ languages. With 800+ payment methods. The company is 100% remote, with people in 150+ countries. It is female-founded; approximately 46% of full-time people are women. Clients include Amazon, athenahealth, Match Group, Microsoft, the NBA, Netflix, PayPal, Uber, Wayfair, and many more. To learn more, visit www.testlio.com.

We are hiring a (Senior) DevOps Manager to lead our infrastructure and DevOps initiatives while managing and mentoring our DevOps team. In this role, you'll report directly to the VP of Engineering and be responsible for implementing modern, cost-effective DevOps practices while ensuring our infrastructure is secure, scalable, and efficient. You'll play a crucial role in shaping our technical operations and driving innovation within our Platform team.

Why you will love this job?

• Drive Measurable Impact: Lead the architecture of our next-generation CI/CD infrastructure to enable massively parallel automated testing at scale. Your expertise won't just transform Testlio's operations - it will set new standards for our enterprise clients, directly influencing their DevOps practices and driving their testing efficiency. Your work will create a multiplier effect, improving quality outcomes across our entire client portfolio.
• Champion Quality Excellence: Build and optimize infrastructure that powers millions of tests across hundreds of thousands of devices. Your leadership in implementing robust, scalable DevOps practices will be crucial in maintaining our industry-leading quality standards and ensuring our platform can handle exponential growth in testing demands.
• Empower AI-Augmented Engineering: Build the infrastructure backbone that enables every engineer at Testlio to work smarter with AI. You'll create the scalable foundation that powers our AI initiatives across the organization - from automated testing and deployment to intelligent monitoring and optimization. Your work will amplify the capabilities of our entire engineering team, enabling them to deliver higher-quality solutions faster through AI-augmented workflows.

Why would you love to be a part of Testlio?

• World-class quality engineering software platform: one of the market's broadest, most highly integrated, and most flexible software assets—built to leverage AI throughout.
• Freedom to roam: Testlio is a global company that embraces flexibility while setting standards to help you succeed in a remote environment by having clear expectations for working hours and communication. We look for opportunities to create engagement with TestLions worldwide and want to make sure you can take time off from work to rest. We honor national holidays in your home nation and provide a generous number of days off, including personal wellness days.
• Winning business: Testlio is growing, profitable, and cash-strong. We are leading our industry with exceptional clients who provide us with a high NPS score and a 4.7 rating on G2. Our business model is global, enterprise, and subscription-based, with 85%+ of our revenue recurring. Several of our largest clients have been with us for 7+ years, and many spend $500K+/year with Testlio.
• Proven client results: Testlio’s people + software solutions expand testing coverage, improve release velocity, and contain quality assurance costs. Our unique approach (“fused software testing”) merges automated + manual testing, on-demand + dedicated resources, and quality + operations systems to unlock new levels of quality engineering value.  
• Great culture: Testlio was founded by women, and 46% of the population is women. Our purpose, vision, and values help drive positive mindsets and behaviors—people like working with each other and love the company's global scale. We move fast and empower people on the frontlines to make decisions and take initiative.
• Investment in you: Testlio is a global company, and we’ve created a few benefits that are available regardless of location. In addition to paid time off, you are reimbursed up to $300/yr for learning. You will also receive stock options and an equipment policy, with Testlio contributing to the bulk of the cost with regular equipment update intervals.

What would your day look like?

• DevOps team leadership: Provide technical leadership and hands-on support in building next-generation infrastructure & scalable CI/CD solutions that enable massively parallel testing and AI-augmented engineering workflows while maintaining cost efficiency.
• Resource Optimization: Lead capacity planning and cost optimization efforts, ensuring efficient resource utilization at scale while maintaining performance standards.
• Platform Reliability: Define, implement, and monitor advanced metrics for scale performance while providing technical leadership in incident response and problem-solving to ensure critical system availability.
• Engineering Excellence: Collaborate with engineering teams to unlock the next levels of AI-augmented coding & quality engineering via deployment, monitoring, and optimization of processes & systems.
• Security Partnership: Partner with security to implement robust security measures that protect our platform and client data.
• Automation Innovation: Drive infrastructure automation initiatives to enable self-service capabilities for engineering teams.
• Client Success: Design and optimize infrastructure patterns & best practices that our enterprise clients can adopt to enhance their testing capabilities.

What do you need to succeed?

Technical Skills

• A degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure management, or similar technical roles.
• Expert knowledge of cloud platforms (preferably AWS) and experience optimizing multi-cloud environments for cost and performance.
• Deep expertise in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines capable of handling massive parallel workloads.
• Strong background in Infrastructure as Code and modern containerization technologies.
• Experience with advanced monitoring and observability tools like NewRelic.
• Solid understanding of security best practices & compliance requirements.

Human Skills

• Fluency in English, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Hands-on technical leader who enjoys both strategic planning and direct implementation.
• Strong problem-solving abilities with a proven track record of driving technical solutions from concept to completion.
• Results-oriented mindset with excellent prioritization and execution capabilities.
• Ability to mentor and guide technical team members while maintaining high individual contribution.
• Strategic thinking with the ability to balance immediate technical needs with long-term infrastructure goals.
• Self-motivated with a drive for continuous improvement and innovation.
• Comfort with remote work environments and collaborating across global time zones.

What is the application process?

We do our best to bring on individuals who will be excited about their role and have the potential for a great future with Testlio. Since we are 100% distributed, we’d like you to meet with multiple people from our organization to give you an idea of who you would be working with, your role expectations, etc. Our interview process can take about 3 to 4 weeks to complete. 

• Application
• TestGorilla assessment
• Recruiter interview
• Hiring manager interview
• Reference checks
• Hands-on skills assessment with a follow-up demo & discussion
• 2-4 Team and Stakeholder interviews
• Additional Hiring Manager connections throughout
• Offer & background check

Diversity and Inclusion

Testlio is an equal-opportunity employer deeply committed to creating an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and identities. We are female-founded, and 46% of our team identifies as women. See the DEI section of our website for more information.