Developer Experience Strategy Manager

Overview

Lead a team of DevOps engineers responsible for the platforms, pipelines, and infrastructure that enable fast, secure, and reliable software delivery, combining people leadership, technical direction, and operational excellence.

What you'll do

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of DevOps engineers through regular feedback, performance management, career planning, and mentoring.
• Own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, container platforms, and developer tooling.
• Drive adoption of infrastructure as code, configuration management, and automation to improve consistency, speed, and repeatability.
• Ensure platform reliability, availability, and performance through observability, SLOs, capacity planning, and effective incident and problem management.
• Embed security and compliance into delivery pipelines and platforms in partnership with security, risk, and architecture teams.
• Partner with application engineering, product, and operations teams to improve deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and recovery time.
• Manage cloud and tooling costs, vendor relationships, and platform investments with a focus on efficiency and value.
• Recruit, onboard, and retain strong DevOps talent while fostering an inclusive, accountable, and continuous-improvement culture.

What you'll need

• 8+ years of experience leading a DevOps, platform, infrastructure, or site reliability engineering team, including direct people-management responsibility.
• Strong hands-on background in CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps).
• Deep experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Deep experience with containers and orchestration, including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or equivalent.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools and with running production incident response.
• Proven ability to develop engineers, manage performance, and build effective teams.
• Excellent communication, decision-making, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with DevSecOps practices, including software supply chain security, artifact management (e.g., JFrog Artifactory), and vulnerability management.
• Experience building internal developer platforms or developer portals and applying platform engineering principles.
• Familiarity with DORA metrics, SRE practices, and FinOps.
• Experience managing distributed or global teams in a regulated enterprise environment.
• Relevant certifications such as AWS, Azure, Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD), or HashiCorp Terraform.

Details

• Grade: 12 (10+ years of total experience).
• Shift time: 12 to 9pm IST or 2pm to 11pm IST.
• Location: Hyderabad.
• Working model: Hybrid, twice a week.