Engineering Manager, Software DevOps and Test Automation

Overview

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, MAHybrid 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

 

Company Description

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 scienti