Manager, Cloud Engineering
Key Skills for This Role
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What You'll Do
Technical Leadership & Architecture
Define and evolve the architecture of the cloud platform on Microsoft Azure
Own the technical roadmap for the cloud platform and guide modernization initiatives
Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex infrastructure and production issues
Remain hands-on with infrastructure design, Infrastructure-as-Code (Bicep preferred, ARM, or Terraform), and architectural decision-making
Define reusable platform patterns and infrastructure modules that enable product teams to deploy safely and efficiently
Establish reliability practices including observability, monitoring, alerting, SLOs, and incident response
Lead cloud cost optimization initiatives and provide FinOps leadership across the organization
Team Leadership & Development
Build, hire, and onboard a high-performing team of cloud engineers aligned with current and future business needs
Set clear performance expectations, conduct regular feedback, and manage performance reviews for direct reports
Create individualized development plans that align with both team objectives and career aspirations
Mentor and coach engineers on technical skills, leadership capabilities, and career growth
Provide career pathing guidance and identify internal promotion and advancement opportunities
Empower team members to own projects, make technical decisions, and grow their ownership and accountability
Foster a collaborative, inclusive team culture that values technical excellence, continuous learning, and psychological safety
Delegate appropriately to develop team capability while maintaining hands-on involvement in critical initiatives
Operations & Strategic Execution
Partner with engineering, product, and security teams to ensure infrastructure meets scalability, security, and compliance requirements
Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and operational consistency across environments
Design highly available systems capable of supporting global SaaS workloads
Implement tooling and reporting that provide transparency into infrastructure usage and cost drivers
Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate team productivity, infrastructure automation, and operational insights
Manage team capacity planning, resource allocation, and workload prioritization
Drive cross-functional collaboration between cloud engineering, product, security, and other engineering teams
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps roles with increasing technical responsibility
- 2+ years of experience in a leadership, management, or senior technical role with direct responsibility for mentoring or developing engineers
- Experience operating production infrastructure for SaaS platforms
- Strong expertise with Microsoft Azure infrastructure and architecture
- Experience working with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Bicep, ARM templates, or Terraform
- Strong scripting or programming skills in PowerShell, Python, C#, or similar languages
- Experience designing and operating highly available distributed systems
- Demonstrated ability to lead and develop technical teams
- Strong collaboration, communication, and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence across organizational levels
- Experience with hiring, onboarding, and performance management of technical teams
Preferred Qualifications
- Azure certifications such as AZ-104 (Azure Administrator) or AZ-305 (Azure Solutions Architect)
- Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and containerized workloads
- Experience working across multiple public cloud providers (Azure and AWS)
- Experience planning or executing cloud migration or platform modernization initiatives
- Familiarity with SRE practices and modern observability platforms
- Experience leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools and emerging AI-driven operational platforms
- Prior experience managing remote or distributed engineering teams
- Exposure to engineering management best practices, coaching, and organizational development
- Salary: ₹3,500,000 - 4,500,000 base salary plus 15% bonus Location: Pune, Hybrid
- As a learning company we believe in the potential of everyone; if you don't have experience in all the details mentioned in this job post, then we still encourage you to apply and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.
- We are an equal opportunity workplace employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities.
- Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
- Salary: ₹3,500,000 - 4,500,000 base salary plus 15% bonus
- Location: Pune, Hybrid
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the architecture of the cloud platform on Microsoft Azure
- Own the technical roadmap for the cloud platform and guide modernization initiatives
- Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex infrastructure and production issues
- Remain hands-on with infrastructure design, Infrastructure-as-Code (Bicep preferred, ARM, or Terraform), and architectural decision-making
- Define reusable platform patterns and infrastructure modules that enable product teams to deploy safely and efficiently
- Establish reliability practices including observability, monitoring, alerting, SLOs, and incident response
- Lead cloud cost optimization initiatives and provide FinOps leadership across the organization
- Build, hire, and onboard a high-performing team of cloud engineers aligned with current and future business needs
- Set clear performance expectations, conduct regular feedback, and manage performance reviews for direct reports
- Create individualized development plans that align with both team objectives and career aspirations
- Mentor and coach engineers on technical skills, leadership capabilities, and career growth
- Provide career pathing guidance and identify internal promotion and advancement opportunities
- Empower team members to own projects, make technical decisions, and grow their ownership and accountability
- Foster a collaborative, inclusive team culture that values technical excellence, continuous learning, and psychological safety
- Delegate appropriately to develop team capability while maintaining hands-on involvement in critical initiatives
- Partner with engineering, product, and security teams to ensure infrastructure meets scalability, security, and compliance requirements
- Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and operational consistency across environments
- Design highly available systems capable of supporting global SaaS workloads
- Implement tooling and reporting that provide transparency into infrastructure usage and cost drivers
- Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate team productivity, infrastructure automation, and operational insights
- Manage team capacity planning, resource allocation, and workload prioritization
- Drive cross-functional collaboration between cloud engineering, product, security, and other engineering teams
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