Engineering Manager DevOps

About the Role

As a DevOps Manager

You'll nurture and grow a high-performing team, drive continuous improvement, and ensure platform reliability while optimizing costs and performance. You'll also be responsible for guiding engineering maturity across your team and ensuring alignment with product, development, and cloud infrastructure stakeholders.

Responsibilities

People & Leadership

• Manage and mentor a DevOps team (68 engineers), fostering growth, accountability, and performance.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and development planning.
• Foster a learning and experimentation culture; identify and groom future leaders within the team.
• Champion diversity, inclusion, psychological safety, and team motivation.

Platform, Infrastructure & Release Management

• Own the end-to-end DevOps lifecycle, including CI/CD, IaC, observability, and incident management.
• Lead and coordinate

  release management activities

  , ensuring safe, timely, and reliable production deployments.
• Act as a gatekeeper for production changes, enforcing proper change management, documentation, and rollback plans.
• Oversee cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) with a focus on high availability, resilience, and cost optimization.
• Oversee cloud-native deployments with Kubernetes, containers, and serverless components.
• Guide the creation of runbooks, KBs, help guides, and automation of operational tasks.

DevOps Best Practices

• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or Pulumi.
• Optimize CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, etc.) for build, test, and deploy automation.
• Ensure adherence to security, compliance (PCI-DSS, ISO 27001), and audit readiness.
• Own and improve monitoring/logging/alerting practices using tools like ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.

? Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in

  release management

  , production deployment planning, and execution.
• Experience coordinating

  cross-team production releases

  including change management and communication.
• Strong cloud infrastructure experience (AWS required; multi-cloud a plus).
• Expertise in scripting languages (Python, Bash, or JavaScript; Go, Java, or PHP a plus).
• Proficient with Kubernetes, containerization, and orchestration at scale.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, automation, and IaC.
• Proven experience managing DevOps in a 24x7 production environment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional initiatives and large-scale deployments.

Soft Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Strong collaboration, interpersonal, and conflict resolution skills.
• Strong analytical and decision-making abilities.
• Ability to influence and align stakeholders across departments.

Nice to Have

• Certifications: AWS DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Admin (CKA), or similar.
• Experience in regulated fintech environments (PCI-DSS, RBI compliance, etc.).
• Experience mentoring remote and globally distributed teams.
• Proven success in driving process improvements using DevOps/SRE principles.
• Passion for secure infrastructure and proactive threat mitigation.

You'll Love This Role If You:

• Enjoy solving complex scalability and reliability challenges.
• Are passionate about automation and reducing manual work.
• Want to lead high-impact initiatives in a fast-paced fintech environment.
• Believe in strong documentation, metrics, and ownership culture.
• Are excited to mentor the next generation of DevOps engineers.