About the Role
We are looking for a dynamic and experienced
Senior Engineering Manager
with a strong
architectural mindset
to lead and evolve our
Platform & DevOps function
. This hybrid
technical-leadership
role demands both strategic vision and hands-on depth to build
scalable, cost-efficient, AI-enabled, and reliable infrastructure and development workflows
.You will lead cross-functional initiatives across
cloud architecture, CI/CD automation, DevSecOps and FinOps
, while mentoring engineers and influencing architectural decisions across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
🔧 Strategic & Architecture Leadership
- Architect and oversee multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure strategies.
- Provide architectural guidance on scalable infrastructure, deployment patterns, and resilient system design.
- Identify and drive opportunities to embed AI and automation into platform capabilities for operational efficiency and developer enablement.
- Partner with product, engineering, and operations teams to align on technical direction and platform strategy.
☁ Cloud Architecture, Optimization & FinOps
- Lead modernization initiatives with cloud-native, containerized, and serverless architecture design.
- Embed automation across infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and operations.
- Drive cloud cost optimization through automation, governance, and resource efficiency.
- Champion FinOps practices, partnering with Finance to ensure usage aligns with cost accountability.
🔍 DevSecOps & Security Automation
- Integrate security practices into the CI/CD pipeline, enabling shift-left security.
- Drive adoption of secure defaults, vulnerability scanning, and compliance automation across cloud and app infrastructure.
- Partner with InfoSec and engineering teams to ensure governance, auditability, and policy enforcement across environments.
- Promote a security-first culture in developer workflows without compromising delivery speed.
🚀 CI/CD Automation & Developer Productivity
- Design and evolve secure, scalable CI/CD pipelines to streamline code delivery.
- Promote deployment patterns like blue/green, canary, and automated rollbacks.
- Improve developer experience through build tooling, workflow automation, and policy-based governance.
👥 People & Technical Leadership
- Act as a technical mentor and trusted advisor, guiding engineers on cloud and platform decisions.
- Foster a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
- Enable team autonomy by building reusable frameworks, automation templates, and governance standards.
Qualifications
- 12+ years in DevOps, Security, infrastructure, or platform engineering roles.
- 5+ years in engineering leadership or architectural roles.
- Proven experience with AWS (preferred), GCP or Azure, and Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi).
- Strong expertise in cloud-native design, automation, and platform scalability.
- Working knowledge or practical exposure to AI-powered DevOps tools, AI observability, or intelligent automation
- Proficiency in CI/CD tools (GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD) and observability stacks (OTEL, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
- Excellent leadership, communication, administration and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with FinOps frameworks and large-scale cloud spend optimization.
- Background in hybrid or multi-cloud architecture design and governance.
- A balance of deep technical expertise and people management experience.
- CKA, AWS Cloud certifications.
