Engineering Manager, Software DevOps and Test Automation

Waters Corporation is seeking a hands-on Software DevOps Engineering Manager to join our Empower Portfolio. We are looking for a technically strong leader to guide a distributed team and drive CI/CD platform initiatives across a hybrid cloud and physical instrument ecosystem.

This role blends strategic leadership with deep technical execution, ensuring alignment across multiple development value streams while establishing enterprise-scale automation and DevOps practices.

• Location: Milford, MA

Hybrid Schedule: Onsite Tuesday–Thursday (3 days/week)

Responsibilities

Leadership & Collaboration

• Serve as a team leader and mentor to your direct reports, uplifting their engineering capabilities and supporting their career growth.

• Drive collaboration across functional, architectural, and organizational boundaries.

• Establish, advocate for, and enforce best practices, standards, and patterns in DevOps and platform engineering.

• Communicate technical strategies, trade-offs, and decisions clearly to engineers, leadership, and stakeholders.

CI/CD & Platform Engineering

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable CI/CD platforms supporting Windows and Linux build environments.

• Improve software delivery reliability by optimizing build pipelines, artifact management, and release workflows.

• Partner with engineering teams to modernize build systems, pipeline architecture, and deployment practices.

• Continuously improve platform scalability, performance, and developer experience.

• Integrate automated testing frameworks into CI/CD pipelines to ensure consistent validation and quality gates for software changes.

Infrastructure & Technical Leadership

• Design and operate hybrid infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and on-premises environments (vSphere).

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar frameworks.

• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and CI/CD issues with a focus on reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.

• Support integration of software systems with physical laboratory instruments, enabling automated build, test, and deployment pipelines.

• Partner with security teams to implement secure infrastructure patterns and enforce compliance standards.

• Drive cloud infrastructure optimization and ensure responsible management of cloud spending.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or similar roles

• 2–5 years of experience leading or mentoring engineering teams

Experience & Technical Skills

• Strong programming experience in Python with an emphasis on maintainable, production-grade code

• Experience with scripting languages such as PowerShell and Bash

• Deep experience with Git-based workflows, branching strategies, and repository governance

• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins

• Familiarity with Windows and Linux build environments

• Working knowledge of build systems such as MSBuild and CMake, and package management tools including NuGet or npm.

Preferred Qualifications

• Cloud certifications in AWS or Azure

• Experience building or scaling enterprise CI/CD platforms supporting high job concurrency and large engineering organizations

• Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, or similar)

• Experience operating in regulated or enterprise environments requiring strong security governance and compliance practices

• Demonstrated experience improving developer experience through platform engineering initiatives