Aware, Inc. (NASDAQ: AWRE) is a proven global leader in biometric identity and authentication solutions. Its Awareness Platform transforms biometric data into actionable intelligence, empowering organizations to verify identities and prevent fraud with speed, accuracy, and confidence. Designed for mission-critical enterprise environments, the platform delivers intelligent, scalable architecture, real-time insights, and reliable security—ensuring precise identification when every millisecond matters. Aware is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.
Open Positions
Manager of DevOps
We are seeking an experienced Manager of DevOps to lead and scale our DevOps function. This role is responsible for driving the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms, and operational reliability. The ideal candidate combines strong technical expertise with people leadership and cross-functional collaboration.
Essential Job Functions
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of DevOps engineers
- Define and execute the DevOps roadmap aligned with engineering and business goals
- Promote DevOps best practices, automation, and a culture of reliability and ownership
- Partner with Engineering, Security, and Product teams to support delivery and scalability
- Oversee cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and infrastructure-as-code practices
- Ensure systems are scalable, secure, highly available, and cost-effective
- Manage environments across development, staging, and production
- Own CI/CD pipelines to ensure fast, reliable, and repeatable deployments
- Drive automation across build, test, deployment, and monitoring workflows
- Improve developer experience and deployment velocity
- Establish SRE-style practices including SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets
- Ensure robust monitoring, alerting, logging, and incident response processes
- Partner with Security to implement DevSecOps practices and compliance
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- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems
- Manage on-call rotations and operational readiness
- Continuously improve system performance, uptime, and resiliency
Note: In addition to the Essential Functions, also performs similar work-related duties as assigned.
Qualifications and Experience
- 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering
- 2+ years of people management or technical leadership experience
- Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI)
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Strong understanding of Linux systems and networking fundamentals
- Excellent communication and management skills
We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.
Senior Product Manager
Are you someone who seeks out roadblocks and turns them into opportunities? Do you enjoy solving complex problems, building alignment, and driving initiatives from idea through execution?
Aware, a global leader in biometrics, is looking for a Senior Product Manager to support and advance our product portfolio. In this role, you will partner closely with Product leadership to help shape strategy and drive execution across key initiatives. You’ll work at the intersection of customer needs, evolving security challenges, and biometric technology to deliver impactful solutions.
This is a hands-on role focused on driving progress—bringing together cross-functional teams, customer insights, and data to move products forward and deliver measurable outcomes.
Essential Job Responsibilities:
- Contribute to and help drive product strategy, vision, and business cases in partnership with Product leadership
- Identify market opportunities through deep understanding of customers, competitors, and industry trends
- Support definition of product positioning and differentiation within the adaptive authentication and biometrics space
- Build strong relationships with customers and partners to gather feedback and uncover unmet needs
- Translate insights into actionable product requirements, use cases, and user stories
- Continuously evaluate product performance, usage, and market fit
Drive product roadmap planning and execution, prioritizing initiatives based on customer impact and business value in partnership with the Senior - Director of Product
- Partner closely with engineering to deliver high-quality capabilities with speed and efficiency
- Lead planning sessions, track progress, and communicate updates to stakeholders
- Drive alignment across cross-functional teams to move product initiatives forward
- Support product launches in collaboration with product marketing, marketing, legal, and leadership
- Contribute to development of collateral including whitepapers, presentations, and thought leadership content
- Act as a product advocate internally and externally to build awareness and understanding
- Contribute to business performance through product insights, pricing input, and alignment with sales efforts
- Leverage AI-driven tools and data insights to enhance product decisions, workflows, and outcomes
Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
- 5+ years of professional experience in Product Management
- Proven ability to translate customer needs into product strategy and roadmap execution
- Experience working in agile/lean development environments
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and present to executive leadership
- Track record of building effective cross-functional partnerships
- Experience in biometrics, identity, authentication, or security-related products
- Experience incorporating AI/ML capabilities into products or leveraging AI tools in product workflows
- Some travel will be required
To express your interest in this opening, please submit your resume to awarejobs@aware.com.
We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.