Manager of Infrastructure, Cloud Operations & IT (Chaos Conductor)

Description

Cloud infrastructure. DevOps. Security. Databases. IT. Production reliability. AI and automation.

If looking at that list makes you want to organize it rather than run from it, keep reading.

RTA is looking for a Manager of Infrastructure, Cloud Operations & IT to lead the technology foundation that keeps our people productive and our Fleet360 platform reliable, scalable, secure, and ready for what’s next.

This isn’t a narrow infrastructure management role. You’ll lead across Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure, DevOps, Database Engineering, Security Engineering, and IT operations—bringing these disciplines together around clear priorities, strong operating practices, and shared accountability.

We need someone who can operate at 30,000 feet without being afraid to come down to 30 feet. You can build the roadmap, communicate technical priorities and risk to senior leadership, develop a high-performing distributed team—and still jump into a production incident when your team needs you.

And yes, AI matters here.

We want a leader who is genuinely curious about where AI and automation can eliminate toil, improve observability, accelerate incident response, strengthen decision-making, and make a great technical team even better.

If you’re a technical operations leader who loves building reliable systems, developing people, solving hard problems, and making things better than you found them, you might be our kind of Chaos Conductor.

Your Top 3 Objectives

If you join RTA, these are the three things we’ll look back on and say, “Yep, that’s why we hired you.”

1. Build a Reliable, Scalable & Secure Technology Foundation

Own the operational health of RTA’s cloud infrastructure and the teams and systems that support it.

Continuously improve reliability, availability, scalability, observability, capacity planning, incident response, database resiliency, security posture, and operational readiness.

As RTA grows, our technology foundation needs to grow with us—without reliability, security, or performance becoming an afterthought.

2. Build & Lead a High-Performing Infrastructure and Operations Team

Create clarity, accountability, strong operating rhythms, and professional growth across Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure, DevOps, Database Engineering, Security Engineering, and IT.

You won’t just coordinate technical specialists. You’ll develop people, establish priorities, remove roadblocks, drive accountability, and help multiple technical disciplines operate as one team.

Because this is a remote role, you’ll know how to create connection, visibility, accountability, and strong communication across a distributed team.

3. Turn AI & Automation Into Measurable Operational Improvement

Move AI and automation from experimentation to actual business and operational value.

Reduce manual toil, improve monitoring and observability, accelerate incident response, strengthen root-cause analysis, automate repeatable work, and increase team productivity.

Develop and maintain an AI and automation roadmap for Infrastructure and IT Operations, prioritizing opportunities based on business impact, reliability, efficiency, risk, and measurable ROI.

You don’t need to be an ML engineer. You do need to experiment, learn quickly, challenge old ways of working, and turn emerging technology into meaningful operational improvement.

What You’ll Actually Own

Cloud Infrastructure & Reliability
Guide the architecture, performance, scalability, availability, monitoring, alerting, and capacity planning of RTA’s AWS environment. Use strong observability practices, predictive analytics, and intelligent capacity planning to identify potential issues before they become incidents.

DevOps & Engineering Operations
Strengthen CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, deployment reliability, automation, observability, and the operational practices that help Engineering move quickly without sacrificing stability.

Production Incident Management
Provide calm, structured leadership when things go sideways. Improve incident response and resolution times, and ensure post-incident reviews turn lessons learned into lasting improvements.

Infrastructure & Platform Operations
Maintain a forward-looking view of RTA’s technical infrastructure, identify risks and capacity needs, and build roadmaps that support company and product growth.

Database & Data Platform Reliability
Guide database performance, resiliency, capacity planning, backups, recovery, tuning, and high availability.

Security Engineering
Guide vulnerability management, cloud security hardening, security engineering priorities, compliance initiatives, and incident-response preparedness. Ensure security risks are identified, prioritized, communicated, and addressed as RTA scales.

IT Strategy & Oversight
Set strategic direction for endpoint management, identity and access management, networking, internal tooling, and the employee technology experience while empowering the IT Manager to lead day-to-day execution.

AI & Intelligent Automation
Evaluate AI-powered tools, AIOps, intelligent monitoring, predictive analytics and scaling, automated remediation, AI-assisted development tools, automated runbooks, and other technologies that can improve reliability and team effectiveness.

Hands-On Technical Leadership
Stay close enough to the technology to jump in when needed—whether that’s troubleshooting an AWS configuration, reviewing a deployment issue, investigating a security alert, evaluating observability data, refining alerting thresholds, or helping the team through a difficult production incident.

People Leadership
Lead, coach, develop, and create accountability across a multidisciplinary technical team. Establish clear goals and operating rhythms and make sure people understand not only what matters, but why.

Cross-Functional Partnership
Work closely with Engineering, Product, Support, Security, and other teams so reliability, scalability, security, and operational considerations are built into decisions early—not discovered after something breaks.

Executive Communication
Translate complex technical topics, risks, investments, and tradeoffs into clear business language. Senior leaders shouldn’t need a decoder ring to understand what matters and what you recommend.

What We’re Looking For

Our ideal candidate is a hands-on technical operations leader who has grown beyond simply being the strongest technical person in the room.

You know the technology, but you also know how to lead people, establish operational discipline, prioritize competing demands, communicate with executives, and build systems that scale.

You’ll likely bring:

• 7+ years of progressive experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, SRE/platform engineering, infrastructure operations, or a closely related technical discipline.
• Meaningful hands-on experience supporting AWS production environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing technical teams, including setting expectations, creating accountability, coaching performance, and helping strong technical people grow.
• Experience owning or significantly influencing production reliability, availability, monitoring, and incident management.
• Strong knowledge of modern DevOps, CI/CD, observability, infrastructure-as-code, and automation practices.
• Strong understanding of modern cloud architecture and software design principles, including microservices and how infrastructure decisions affect application reliability and scalability.
• Experience with technologies such as AWS, Docker, Terraform/CloudFormation, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, or comparable platforms.
• The ability to translate complex technical problems into clear priorities, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations for business and executive stakeholders.
• Experience using AI and/or automation to improve technical, engineering, infrastructure, or operational workflows.
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills.
• A leadership style that combines confidence with humility. You’re comfortable making decisions, receiving feedback, engaging in healthy conflict, and changing direction when the facts tell you to.

You’ll Really Stand Out If...

• You’ve led across multiple disciplines such as Cloud, DevOps/SRE, Infrastructure, Security, Database Engineering, or IT.
• You’ve successfully led remote or distributed technical teams.
• You’ve implemented AIOps, intelligent observability, predictive scaling, automated remediation, AI-assisted incident response, or other AI-powered operational workflows.
• You have experience with security frameworks, vulnerability management, cloud security, or compliance environments.
• You understand database resiliency, high availability, backup/recovery, and performance considerations.
• You’re familiar with AI infrastructure concepts such as model serving, compute-resource management, vector databases, or LLM integration patterns.
• You hold relevant certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, ITIL, or other cloud, DevOps, security, infrastructure, or AI-related credentials.

A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering, or a related discipline is welcomed but not required. We care much more about what you’ve built, led, learned, and improved.

How You’ll Know You’re Winning

• Reliability & Scale: RTA’s production environment is reliable, observable, resilient, and prepared for growth, with capacity and infrastructure needs anticipated before they become emergencies.
• Incident Performance: Operational issues are detected earlier and resolved faster, with measurable improvement in incident response, MTTR, root-cause analysis, and post-incident learning.
• AI & Automation: RTA has a clear AI and automation roadmap, manual toil is decreasing, and initiatives are producing measurable improvements in efficiency, productivity, reliability, or response time—not just interesting demos.
• Security & Resilience: Security vulnerabilities, compliance priorities, database resiliency, backup/recovery, and infrastructure risks are proactively identified, prioritized, and managed.
• Team Performance: Cloud, Infrastructure, DevOps, Database, Security, and IT teams have clear priorities, ownership, accountability, and development expectations—and your people are growing.
• Executive Visibility: Senior leadership understands system health, technical risk, investment priorities, and where RTA is headed next.

Who Thrives at RTA?

In general, someone who:

• Is passionate about serving others.
• Thinks of themselves less, while not thinking less of themselves. You’re confident, yet humble.
• Is comfortable being part of a team that thrives on healthy conflict. We challenge ideas, ask hard questions, and speak the kind truth.
• Passionately cares about our clients. Our clients are fleet managers, parts clerks, and automotive technicians who maintain everything from squad cars to school buses—so everyone comes home safely at the end of the day.
• Believes no job is beneath them. Sometimes leadership means setting strategy. Sometimes it means jumping in and helping solve the problem.
• Takes ownership and initiative, identifying how to make processes, systems, and teams better without waiting for permission.
• Loves to read, learn, grow, and stretch themselves.
• Is curious about AI and emerging technology and looks for practical ways to use them to work smarter and create better outcomes.

The Bottom Line

We’re looking for a rare combination: the technical credibility to understand the systems, the leadership ability to make multiple technical disciplines better, the operational discipline to create reliability and accountability, and the curiosity to keep pushing RTA forward.

You don’t have to personally be the deepest expert in Cloud, DevOps, Security, Databases, Infrastructure, and IT.

You do need to know enough to ask the right questions, recognize risk, establish priorities, develop strong technical people, make good decisions, and know when it’s time to roll up your sleeves.

If that sounds like you—and this sounds like your type of company—keep reading.

Compensation & Work Location

The anticipated base salary range for this role is $140,000 –$160,000 annually, depending on experience and qualifications.

This is a full-time, fully remote U.S. role, with occasional travel to our Glendale, Arizona headquarters for team gatherings and other business needs.

This position is classified as exempt and is not eligible for overtime pay.

Why Top Talent Chooses RTA

We invest in our people — period.

• 401(k) with 6% Safe Harbor match (100% vested day one)
• Flexible PTO model built on trust and manager-approved time off
• Cigna PPO and HSA medical plan options with company contributions ($780–$1,950 annually)
• Garner Health HRA program: up to $1,000 individual / $2,000 family reimbursement opportunity
• Wellness rewards up to $350 annually
• Virtual care and mental health support resources
• Company-sponsored benefits including dental, vision, EAP, life, STD, LTD, legal plan, and identity theft protection options
• Additional employee perks, wellness initiatives, and discount programs

The Part We’re Most Proud Of

• #34 on the Fortune Best Small Workplaces™ 2026 list
• 99% of employees say RTA is a Great Place to Work® — Certified three years running
• 30% ARR growth — two years straight
• We’re an AI-forward company building for the future
• Meaningful work supporting the fleets and people who keep communities running
• Big growth. Real benefits. Strong culture. A team that delivers.

About Us

Founded in 1979, RTA has long earned the reputation of knowing our stuff and providing the best customer service in the market.

Our purpose is simple: help fleets succeed.

We pride ourselves on creating a caring, family-oriented atmosphere for both staff and clients, and we love that our work has a positive impact on the lives we touch.

Our clients carry kids in school buses, first responders in emergency vehicles, patients in ambulances, food and medical supplies in trucks, and people just taking the bus or train to work.

We do meaningful work, and we want our clients to have the best tools available to them.

For this role, that mission starts behind the scenes. Reliable infrastructure, secure systems, resilient databases, great IT operations, and strong technical leadership help make everything else possible.

Physical & Travel Requirements

This role has the following physical and travel requirements:

• Ability to sit or stand for extended periods.
• Ability to work at a computer for prolonged periods.
• Ability to communicate effectively through video, phone, messaging, and other remote collaboration tools.
• Occasional travel to RTA’s corporate headquarters in Glendale, Arizona and/or other company or team gatherings based on business needs.

If all of this sounds like you—and your type of company—then click apply.

Seriously, we’ve asked you a few times now, and you’re still reading.

Bonus points for being thorough.

Reasonable Accommodation

RTA is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process or perform the essential functions of this role, please notify us at [email protected].

Employment Notices

Employment with RTA is at-will. This means either the employee or the company may terminate the employment relationship at any time, with or without cause or notice, subject to applicable law.

Employment with RTA may be contingent upon successful completion of a background check and other pre-employment screenings, consistent with applicable law.

We cannot accept student visas or provide sponsorship at this time.

Equal Employment Opportunity

RTA is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable law.

Notice of AI Use in Job Application Review

As part of our commitment to creating a fair, efficient, and consistent hiring process, we may use artificial intelligence (AI) to help our recruiting teams organize, summarize, and analyze information provided by candidates, including resumes, application responses, and other materials submitted during the application process.

AI may be used to identify patterns, highlight relevant skills and experience, and assist in comparing a candidate’s qualifications with the requirements of a specific role. These tools are used to improve efficiency and consistency while supporting more informed hiring decisions, which will ultimately be made by the hiring team.