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At SolarWinds, we’re a people-first company. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of the people we serve—including our employees, customers, shareholders, partners, and communities. Join us in our mission to help customers accelerate business transformation with simple, powerful, and secure solutions. The ideal candidate thrives in an innovative, fast-paced environment and is collaborative, accountable, ready, and empathetic. We’re looking for individuals who believe they can accomplish more as a team and create lasting growth for themselves and others. We hire based on attitude, competency, and commitment. Solarians are ready to advance our world-class solutions in a fast-paced environment and accept the challenge to lead with purpose. If you’re looking to build your career with an exceptional team, you’ve come to the right place. Join SolarWinds and grow with us! We are looking for an Infrastructure Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for building, operating, and evolving the infrastructure platform that powers a SaaS product at scale. This role is for a hands-on frontline manager who brings strong technical depth, solid people leadership, and a clear focus on reliability, automation, and customer experience. You will lead engineers who own cloud infrastructure, platform automation, infrastructure as code, operational readiness, and service reliability. You should be comfortable setting direction, managing execution, improving engineering practices, and staying close enough to the technical details to make sound decisions and remove blockers. This role is a strong fit for someone with management experience, a customer-first mindset, and a track record of leading infrastructure teams in modern cloud-native environments. Responsibilities Lead, coach, and develop a team of infrastructure engineers in a fast-paced SaaS environment Manage day-to-day execution, delivery, prioritization, and operational excellence for infrastructure and platform work Own team roadmap planning and align infrastructure investments with engineering and business priorities Partner with product, engineering, security, support, and operations teams to improve platform reliability, scalability, and customer experience Drive adoption of infrastructure as code, GitOps, and automation-first engineering practices Improve system availability, resilience, observability, and incident response processes Help define and maintain on-call expectations, operational readiness standards, and service ownership practices Support continuous improvement across change management, release processes, incident reviews, and root cause analysis Stay close to architecture and implementation details, providing technical guidance and direction when needed Hire and retain strong engineering talent while building a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning Required Qualifications 3+ years of people management experience leading technical teams Strong technical background in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, site reliability, or related disciplines Experience operating production workloads in AWS and Datacenters Practical experience with GitOps workflows and tools Strong hands-on experience with automation and infrastructure as code practices Experience building and improving automation for infrastructure provisioning, deployment, operations, and support Experience creating and managing engineering roadmaps, balancing strategic work with operational priorities Understanding of customer experience in a SaaS product environment and how infrastructure decisions impact availability, performance, and trust Experience supporting or leading on-call rotations and production incident management Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work across engineering and business stakeholders Ability to mentor engineers, drive execution, and lead through