Senior Manager, Engineering (DevOps, Infrastructure, and Release Engineering)

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About Us</strong></span></p> <p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Abacus Insights is transforming how data works for health plans. Our mission is simple: make healthcare data usable, so the people responsible for care and cost decisions can act faster, with confidence.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We help health plans break down data silos to create a single, trusted data foundation. That foundation powers better decisions—so plans can improve outcomes, reduce waste, and deliver better experiences for members and providers alike. Backed by $100M from top investors, we’re tackling big challenges in an industry that’s ready for change. Our platform enables GenAI use cases by delivering clean, connected, and reliable healthcare data to support automation, prioritization, and decision workflows—and it’s why we are leading the way.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Our innovation begins with people. We are bold, curious, and collaborative—because the best ideas come from working together. We embrace the thoughtful use of AI and automation to drive innovation and efficiency, and we look for individuals who are curious and adaptable—those excited to leverage emerging technologies to enhance how we work—while keeping human insight, connection, and our clients at the center of every decision.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ready to make an impact? Join us and let’s build the future together.</span></p></div><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">About the Role</span></strong></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">As a Senior Manager, Engineering for DevOps, Infrastructure, and Release Engineering, you will lead teams responsible for the reliability, scalability, and safe delivery of our SaaS platforms. This role owns the end‑to‑end release lifecycle— through CI/CD, environment promotion, and production deployment—ensuring releases are repeatable, observable, auditable, and low‑risk.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">You will balance senior‑level people leadership with deep technical oversight of release engineering systems, cloud infrastructure, and operational excellence. You will partner closely with Product Engineering, Quality Engineering, Security, and Operations to eliminate release friction, reduce deployment risk, and improve time‑to‑value without compromising stability or compliance.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">This role is ideal for an experienced leader who has lived through failed releases, scale pain, and operational incidents—and knows how to design systems and teams that prevent them from recurring.<br></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Your day to day</strong></span></p> <p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">People & Organizational Leadership </span></strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Lead, coach, and grow DevOps, Infrastructure, and Release Engineering teams across geographies</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Establish clear ownership and accountability across CI/CD, environments, and production readiness</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, goal setting, and career development planning</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hire, onboard, and retain senior DevOps and release engineering talent</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Foster a culture of operational ownership, blameless postmortems, and high availability</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Remove systemic blockers so teams can focus on building resilient delivery pipelines—not firefighting</span></li> </ul> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Release Engineering & Delivery Excellence</span></strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Own the release engineering strategy for a SaaS platform supporting frequent, reliable deployments</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Design and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines that support:</span> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Trunk‑based or hybrid branching strategies</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Automated testing gates (unit, integration, security, performance)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Progressive delivery…