Sr. Manager DevOps

Job Description:

Position Title: Sr Manager DevOps

Location & Work Arrangement: Fremont, CA | Hybrid

About Nextpower

Nextpower is a global leader in intelligent energy technology, delivering innovative solutions across solar power, electrical infrastructure, automation, and digital technologies. Our products and services help optimize energy performance, improve efficiency, and accelerate the transition to a more sustainable energy future. Driven by innovation and collaboration, our global teams are shaping the future of energy.

Job Summary

We are hiring a Sr. DevOps Manager to lead the cloud platform that connects millions of IoT devices at thousands of solar plants worldwide to the software our customers rely on. You will build and lead a team of DevOps engineers across the US, India and Brazil, and you will stay hands-on: designing, writing and reviewing Terraform, pipelines and Kubernetes/container configurations yourself.

We are completing a major infrastructure redesign and migration on Microsoft Azure, while integrating acquired businesses that run on AWS. This is a rare chance to build infrastructure from scratch and set the standards that enable every developer team at the company.

What You Will Do

• Lead, mentor and grow a distributed team of DevOps engineers in the US, India and Brazil, with clear goals, coverage across time zones and a strong engineering culture. Manage cloud spend, partner with engineering and product leaders, and report on platform health and delivery metrics.
• Stay hands-on: design, build and review infrastructure code, CI/CD pipelines and platform tooling alongside the team.
• Own the Azure infrastructure redesign and migration, building new environments from scratch with Terraform as the single source of truth.
• Integrate acquired platforms running in AWS into our Azure-first architecture, including networking, identity, security and cost governance.
• Run and evolve our containerized platform: Azure Container Apps for most workloads, plus Kubernetes where it fits.
• Operate the pipeline for real-time data from millions of IoT devices: Kafka, TimescaleDB, InfluxDB, Postgres, MSSQL and Databricks, with reliability and cost in mind.
• Define and drive SRE practices: observability, SLOs, alerting, incident response, capacity planning and disaster recovery.
• Enable developer teams worldwide with self-service CI/CD, golden paths and templates for our Angular, Go and Python stack.
• Embed security and compliance into pipelines and infrastructure: secrets management, vulnerability scanning, least-privilege access and policy as code.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE or cloud infrastructure engineering, including 5 years of experience leading engineers.
• Deep, production-level expertise in Microsoft Azure (Container Apps, networking, identity, storage, monitoring, security).
• Proven experience designing and building cloud infrastructure from scratch, including large migrations or platform redesigns.
• Expert-level Terraform: modules, remote state, environment promotion, testing and policy as code.
• Hands-on experience with containers and Kubernetes (AKS or equivalent) in production.
• Strong CI/CD experience (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or similar) and a track record of enabling multiple development teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with IoT platforms and high-volume, real-time data ingestion from large device fleets (millions of devices).
• Working knowledge of streaming and data platforms: Kafka, PostgreSQL, SQL Server and time-series databases.
• Experience with observability and incident management for always-on, 24x7 systems.
• Experience managing remote and multicultural teams across time zones, with excellent communication in English.
• A hands-on mindset: you are comfortable writing code, debugging production and leading by example.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, especially integrating or migrating workloads from AWS to Azure.
• Experience with TimescaleDB, InfluxDB and Databricks operations.
• Experience with Angular and Go build, test and release pipelines; familiarity with Python services.
• Experience with renewable energy, industrial IoT, SCADA or other operational technology environments.
• Cloud certifications (Azure Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer Expert, Terraform Associate, CKA/CKAD, AWS).
• Experience with FinOps, and with integrating infrastructure from acquired companies.
• Experience working with teams in India and Brazil; Portuguese or Hindi is a plus.

Our Main Technology Environment

• Cloud: Microsoft Azure (primary); AWS (acquired businesses)
• Infrastructure as code: Terraform
• Compute: Azure Container Apps, Kubernetes, Docker
• Application stack: Angular front end, Go APIs, Python (occasionally)
• Data and messaging: PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Kafka, TimescaleDB, InfluxDB, Databricks
• Workload: Real-time telemetry from millions of IoT devices at thousands of solar plants worldwide

We are Nextpower

Nextpower offers a comprehensive benefits package. We provide health care coverage, dental and vision, 401(K) participation including company matching, company paid holidays with unlimited paid time off, generous discretionary company bonuses, life and disability protection and more. Employees in certain positions may be eligible for stock compensation. All plans are in accordance with relevant plan documents. For more information on Nextpower’s benefits please view our company website at www.nextracker.com. 

Pay is based on market location and may vary based on factors including experience, skills, education and other job-related reasons. The annual salary range for this position is $220,000 to $240,000 (eligible in California).

At Nextpower, we are driving the global energy transition with an integrated clean energy technology platform that combines intelligent structural, electrical, and digital solutions for utility-scale power plants. Our comprehensive portfolio enables faster project delivery, higher performance, and greater reliability, helping our customers capture the full value of solar power. Our talented worldwide teams are redefining how solar power plants are designed, built, and operated every day with smart technology, data-driven insights, and advanced automation. Together, we’re building the foundation for the world’s next generation of clean energy infrastructure.

Nextpower is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

We are Nextpower