ob Title: Engineering Manager / Architect - Platform & DevOps

Location: Bengaluru

Employment Type: Full-time

Team: Platform Engineering / DevOps

About the Role:

We are looking for a dynamic and experienced Engineering Manager with a strong Architect mindset to lead and shape our Platform & DevOps function. This hybrid leadership-technical role combines strategic vision, hands-on expertise and team leadership to build scalable, cost-efficient and reliable infrastructure and development workflows. This role will drive cross-functional initiatives across cloud architecture, CI/CD automation, reliability engineering and FinOps practices while mentoring a team of skilled engineers and guiding architectural design at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

🔧 Strategic & Architecture Leadership

• Architect and oversee multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure strategies
• Provide architectural guidance on scalable infrastructure, deployment patterns, and reliability
• Collaborate with engineering, product and operations teams to ensure a unified technical direction
  
  

☁ Cloud Architecture, Optimization & FinOps

• Lead platform modernization initiatives by designing cloud-native, containerized and serverless architectures, while embedding automation across infrastructure provisioning, deployment pipelines and operational workflows to drive scalability, resilience and developer efficiency
• Drive cloud cost optimization through automation, governance and resource efficiency
• Champion FinOps practices, working closely with finance to align usage with cost accountability
  
  

🔍 Reliability Engineering & Observability

• Design and enforce system availability, SLOs, and observability frameworks
• Lead incident management, root cause analysis and proactive reliability improvements
• Scale monitoring and alerting infrastructure for better system health and visibility
  
  

🚀 CI/CD Automation & Dev Productivity

• Design and evolve CI/CD pipelines to support secure and efficient code delivery
• Champion deployment practices such as blue/green, canary and automated rollbacks
• Improve developer experience through build tooling, automation, and governance
  
  

👥 People & Technical Leadership

• Act as a technical mentor and trusted advisor to engineering teams, guiding them on infrastructure decisions, cloud best practices and scalable design patterns
• Promote a culture of collaboration, ownership and continuous improvement
• Enable team efficiency and autonomy by creating reusable frameworks, automation templates, and governance standards that accelerate delivery and ensure consistency
  
  

Qualifications:

• 10+ years in DevOps, SRE, infrastructure or platform engineering roles
• 5+ years in engineering leadership and/or architectural roles
• Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi)
• Experience in designing and managing cost-efficient, scalable systems and leading platform optimization
• Proficiency with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins) and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
• Strong leadership, communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
  
  

Key Success Metrics:

• Effective cloud cost governance and reduction in infrastructure spend
• High platform reliability and reduced MTTR
• Scalable deployment processes and improved developer velocity
• Strong team engagement
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with FinOps frameworks and large-scale cost governance
• Background in hybrid/multi-cloud architectures
• Prior experience balancing architecture design and team leadership responsibilities