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)

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.

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

Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) is a global leader in life sciences and diagnostics, dedicated to accelerating the benefits of pioneering science through analytical technologies, informatics, and service. With a focus on regulated, high-volume testing environments, our innovative portfolio harnesses deep scientific expertise across chemistry, physics, and biology. We collaborate with customers around the world to advance the release of effective, high-quality medicines, ensure the safety of food and water, and drive better patient outcomes by detecting diseases earlier, managing routine infections, and combating antibiotic resistance. Through a shared culture of relentless innovation, our passionate team of ~16,000 colleagues turn scientific challenges into breakthroughs that improve lives worldwide.

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It benefits our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.