Senior Manager, DevOps at IDEXX Laboratories – Westbrook | Jobyssey

IT accelerates the success of IDEXX employees and customers by providing scalable and innovative solutions and leadership. We are a global organization that supports all technology needed to deliver products and solutions to customers enabling them to focus on delivering high quality patient care. We strive to provide exceptional customer service and experience in the most efficient means possible, requiring alignment and cross-functional communication.

We are seeking a Senior Manager of DevOps to lead our cloud infrastructure, security, and platform engineering efforts. This role supports the strategy and execution behind our cloud environment operations, and infrastructure security, CI/CD pipelines, and maintaining a high-performing DevOps team. You will partner closely with product engineering, security, and IT leadership to advance our platform capabilities and ensure reliable, secure, and scalable operations.

In this role, you will…

Lead and develop a team of DevOps engineers, setting priorities, coaching for growth, and ensuring continuous technology operations.
Own the roadmap for cloud automation, cloud infrastructure, platform tooling available to the organization.
Drive infrastructure security practices, including access controls, vulnerability management, and compliance, in partnership with the security and business leaders.
Advance the DevOps team’s maturity of AI in workflow that increases deployment speed, reliability, and developer productivity.
Evaluate and introduce new tools and platform advancements that improve scalability, cost efficiency, and resilience.
Manage incident response processes and drive root-cause analysis and continuous improvement plans.
Partner with engineering and IT leadership to align infrastructure investments with business and product priorities.
Own vendor and cloud cost management, ensuring efficient and secure use of cloud resources.

What you will need to succeed…

Location: We are only looking for qualified individuals that are driving distance to our corporate HQ in Westbrook, Maine where we offer the flexible hybrid requirement of only 8 days per month on site.
7 or more years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure, or platform engineering and at least 7+ years in a people management role.
Strong hands-on background with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar), and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
Demonstrated experience embedding security practices into infrastructure lifecycle management and CI/CD pipelines.
Hands-on experience with observability platforms (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch) for monitoring, alerting, and performance management.
Proven track record of scaling a DevOps or platform team, including technical hiring, org design, and maturing operational processes.
Track record of leading teams through incident response and operational maturity improvements.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical strategy for non-technical stakeholders.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to Have

Familiarity with cost management and FinOps tooling. Experience with multi-cloud environments.

What you can expect from us:

Base annual salary target: $150000 - $170000 (yes, we do have flexibility if needed)
Opportunity for annual cash bonus as well as yearly equity award
Health / Dental / Vision Benefits Day-One
5% matching 401K
Additional benefits including but not limited to financial support, pet insurance, mental health resources, volunteer paid days off, employee stock program, foundation donation matching, and much more!

Why IDEXX?

We’re proud of the work we do, because our work matters. An innovation leader in every industry we serve, we follow our Purpose and Guiding Principles to help pet owners worldwide keep their companion animals healthy and happy, to ensure safe drinking water for billions, and to help farmers protect livestock and poultry from diseases. We have customers in over 175 countries and a global workforce of over 10,000 talented people.

So, what does that mean for you? We enrich the livelihoods of our employees with a positive and respectful work culture that embraces challenges and encourages learning and discovery. At IDEXX, you will be supported by competitive compensation, incentives, and benefits while enjoying purposeful work that drives improvement.

Let’s pursue what matters together.

IDEXX values a diverse workforce and workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.

IDEXX is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, or any protected category prohibited by local, state, or federal laws.

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