Platform Engineering Manager

Overview

Lead Cloud Engineering and Platform Engineering teams distributed globally, building reliable platform capabilities that enable product teams to move quickly and safely.

What you'll do

• Hire, coach and develop engineers and Team Leaders through regular 1:1s, feedback and performance reviews; foster an inclusive, psychologically safe culture; maintain sustainable pace and team morale; and actively remove blockers so the team can deliver.
• Own and prioritise the backlog and roadmap for platform services and capabilities; align stakeholders and product teams on outcomes, scope and timelines; manage dependencies, risks and delivery plans; communicate clearly the why and what to the team; and ensure services are production-ready (SLAs/SLOs, runbooks, on-call readiness, release and change practices).
• Drive continuous improvement based on data and feedback; identify and remove sources of toil and delivery friction; and improve developer experience for product teams through automation, standardisation and self-service capabilities.
• Define team goals/OKRs aligned to company and technology strategy; translate strategy into an executable roadmap; balance near-term delivery with platform sustainability (reliability, security, maintainability, cost).
• Stay current with public cloud services, CNCF ecosystem and modern engineering practices; bring relevant ideas into the roadmap; and ensure the team has time and support to learn and apply them pragmatically.
• Provide technical leadership on platform and cloud solution design, applying strong software engineering principles and non-functional requirements (scalability, reliability, security, operability); guide design reviews and technical decisions.
• Coach Team Leaders to strengthen people leadership, delivery management and technical decision-making; help them build autonomy, consistency and healthy team practices.
• Ensure clear, accessible documentation for platform services (standards, how-to guides, runbooks, architecture decisions) that enables self-service for product teams and meets business and compliance requirements.
• Ensure platform services are observable, resilient and operating within agreed targets; coordinate incident response for outages or security incidents; drive root-cause analysis and follow-up actions; and continuously improve operational practices to prevent recurrence.
• Play a key role in FinOps governance to manage public cloud costs responsibly.

What you'll need

• Understanding and experience in applying Servant Leadership principles
• Experience in platform initiatives and building self-service capabilities to improve overall engineering experience
• Experience in roadmap and backlog management in Agile delivery
• Deep knowledge of Microsoft Azure
• Knowledge in containerization technologies (including Kubernetes, Helm)
• Knowledge in APIs, their design components and API Management Solutions (example Kong)
• Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform services
• Knowledge in computer networks and cyber security
• Knowledge in AI-enabled systems or workflows
• Understanding in DevOps/DevSecOps/SRE principles and practices
• Experience with git and automation pipelines platforms (Azure DevOps, GitHub)
• Experience in using project/product management tools (Azure DevOps, Jira, AHA.io)
• Skilled in planning and designing platform solutions according to functional and non-functional requirements
• Strong Software Engineering background

Nice to have

• Microsoft Azure Administrator certified
• Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer certified
• Certification in Kubernetes
• Certification in Scrum Product Owner role
• Certification in FinOps framework

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• Work mode: Hybrid