Sr. Manager, Development
Sales & Business Development
United States
USD 148,750-201,250 / year
The Role:
Own the infrastructure and automation substrate that engineering runs on: the internal dev/test/lab environments, the CI/CD and GitHub platform, and the pipeline that will turn NEXiA into a deliverable VM appliance.
The day-one reality: environments run on hypervisors (Proxmox, VMware) provisioned through a mix of hand-built VMs and partial automation that grew up without an owner. Some Terraform and Ansible exists; coverage is inconsistent, conventions vary, and tribal knowledge fills the gaps. The mission is to consolidate this into a coherent, code-driven system — where standing up or tearing down a full NEXiA test stack is a pipeline run, not a project.
There is also a strategic delivery shift underway: NEXiA is moving from handing customers an installer to shipping them a preconfigured VM. This role builds the image pipeline that makes that real — golden images, versioning, upgrade paths — which turns internal environment automation into a customer-facing capability.
This is a player-coach role. You will lead a small team and you will personally write Terraform, Ansible, and pipeline code every week. Candidates whose hands-on work ended when they became managers are not a fit for this role.
Finally: this team is pushing boundaries, particularly in agentic tooling, where the state of the art changes monthly. That requires someone who leans in — who learns by trying, breaks things in the process, and treats those mistakes as tuition rather than something to apologize for. Curiosity here is not a personality bonus; it's how the work gets done.
What you’ll do:
Programmatic Environment Provisioning
- Automate hypervisor-level provisioning (Proxmox, VMware) via APIs and providers — VM lifecycle, templates, networking, storage — replacing console-driven setup
- Make full NEXiA environment creation self-service: engineers request an environment, a pipeline builds it, and it gets torn down when idle
- Establish base image and template management so environments start from known-good, versioned foundations
- Bring the existing snowflake environments under management incrementally — inventory what exists, codify it, retire what isn't worth keeping
Infrastructure as Code Consolidation
- Consolidate the existing partial Terraform/Ansible into a coherent, owned codebase: module structure, state management, secrets handling, naming conventions
- Establish IaC workflow discipline — plans reviewed via pull request, applies through pipelines, no out-of-band changes to managed infrastructure
- Set the standards for what “under code” means and drive the inconsistent middle ground toward them, pragmatically — codify what matters first, not everything at once
CI/CD & GitHub Platform Ownership
- Own the GitHub organization as a platform: repo standards, permissions, branch protections, Actions runners, artifact and package management
- Build and maintain the CI/CD pipelines engineering depends on — treat pipeline reliability and speed as a product with engineering teams as the customers
- Provide reusable pipeline building blocks (shared workflows, actions, runner images) so product teams don't each reinvent deployment
VM Appliance Delivery (Installer → VM)
- Design and build the image pipeline that produces the customer-deliverable NEXiA VM: automated builds, configuration injection, versioning, and validation
- Solve the lifecycle problems that come with appliance delivery: upgrades of deployed VMs, patching, compatibility with customer hypervisor environments
- Partner with the NEXiA engineering and release teams so the appliance pipeline fits how the product is actually built and released
Team Leadership (Player-Coach)
- Hire, mentor, and lead a small infrastructure/DevOps team while remaining in the code yourself
- Set technical direction through working examples — the first Terraform modules and pipelines establish the patterns the team follows
- Prioritize ruthlessly: this scope is bigger than the team, so sequencing (what gets automated first, what stays manual for now) is a core management skill here
- Represent infrastructure reality to engineering leadership — honest capacity, honest timelines, honest risk
AI-Native Infrastructure Practice
- Work agentically as the default mode: direct coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, opencode) to generate Terraform modules and Ansible roles, understand inherited automation, and draft migration plans — then verify everything against real infrastructure behavior before it ships
- Enforce verification discipline on the team: AI will confidently generate a plausible-looking Proxmox provider config or Ansible role that is subtly wrong; terraform plan output, idempotency checks, and disposable test environments are the ground truth, not the generated code
- Extend the agentic tooling itself where it pays off — custom skills, slash commands, agents, and hooks that encode the team's infrastructure workflows so the leverage compounds
- Evolve the team's workflow as tooling changes — throughput here depends on leverage, not headcoun
Who you are:
- 8+ years of infrastructure/DevOps/platform engineering experience, with 2+ years leading engineers while remaining hands-on
- Deep, hands-on experience with programmatic hypervisor management — Proxmox, VMware vSphere, or equivalent, driven through APIs/Terraform providers, not consoles
- Strong Terraform proficiency: module design, state management, provider usage in real production systems
- Strong Ansible proficiency: roles, inventory design, idempotent configuration management at fleet scale
- GitHub platform experience: Actions pipelines, runner management, org administration
- Experience inheriting and consolidating inconsistent automation — you've turned a pile of scripts and snowflakes into an owned system before
- Real agentic development experience: daily-driver use of an agentic coding CLI (Claude Code, Codex, or opencode) on infrastructure work, with concrete examples and a clear verification discipline — either an experienced power user or a demonstrated rapid adopter
- Player-coach disposition with evidence: recent commits, recent incidents worked, recent code reviewed — leadership that stayed technical
- Demonstrated learning agility: a track record of self-driven adoption of unfamiliar technology — picked it up, shipped with it, made mistakes along the way, and can talk about those mistakes without flinching
Even better if you have:
- Packer or equivalent golden-image pipeline experience (directly relevant to the VM appliance work)
- Experience migrating VMware workloads to Proxmox or other alternatives (post-Broadcom licensing pressure)
- Experience shipping software as a virtual appliance or supporting customer-hosted/on-prem deployments
- Healthcare, pharmacy, or regulated-environment experience
- Observability tooling for infrastructure (metrics, logging, alerting for the environments themselves)
- Kubernetes or container orchestration experience (not the core of this role, but adjacent)
- Built agentic tooling, not just used it: custom Claude Code skills/slash commands, plugins, subagent definitions, hooks, or MCP servers — especially ones that encode infrastructure or operations workflows
- Designed multi-agent or automated agentic workflows (e.g., agents that plan/apply infrastructure changes, review Terraform plans, or run unattended remediation loops with guardrails)
- Contributions to agentic tooling ecosystems (published plugins, MCP servers, or skills; upstream contributions to agent frameworks)
Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. Employer will not sponsor applicants for work visas.
Compensation:
The estimated base annual salary range for this position is $148,750 to $ 201,250, though a candidate’s base annual salary shall be determined on a range of factors, including, but not limited to, qualifications and experience. This position may additionally be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.
What are the perks?
- Generous time off policy that allows you to put your family first
- Opportunity to work on the cutting edge of pharmacy automation in a high growth tech company
- Competitive benefits, salary, and talent development opportunities
- Commitment to professional development and working for a company where your voice is heard
More about iA:
iA® (Innovation Associates®) is a pharmacy fulfillment company that provides an integrated platform of capabilities to support Centralized and Community Pharmacy Fulfillment Solutions. With over 30 years of experience in the pharmacy fulfillment business, we have developed and implemented a suite of automation and software solutions that help deliver quick and sustainable business results. Our integrated Pharmacy Fulfillment Platform enables scalable solutions that helps run the prescription fulfillment process from prescription acceptance to delivery, supporting dynamic design flexibility to service pharmacies in a variety of volumes and settings. Our solutions improve workflow, and increase efficiency, while enabling more time for pharmacists to focus on their patients. iA works with pharmacy providers in the Commercial, Health Systems, Government, and Mail Order/eCommerce markets. iA can help customers transform their pharmacy. For more information, visit iARx.com.
Our Mission: We partner with providers to transform pharmacy through our leading-edge software enabled fulfillment technology and partners to deepen the patient-pharmacist relationship, enhancing patient safety and choice while increasing operational efficiency. iA empowers pharmacists to focus on patient care. iA can run the prescription fulfillment process from start to finish, helping pharmacies manage fulfillment and inventory to help lower costs, improve efficiency, increase safety, and provide comprehensive Rx tracking and real-time support.
Our Products:
- Software
- Modular Hardware
- Sophisticated Counting and Collation Devices
Our Core Values:
- Solutions Driven
- Customer Centric
- Championing Diversity
- Empowering Ownership
- Trust Daringly
To learn more about iA’s product, people and culture visit us at iARx.com OR check us out on LinkedIn, Facebook, or YouTube!
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