Manager of Cloud Platform Engineering
Inactive
IndiaFull-TimeManager
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years of experience in technology roles, including at least 5 years managing engineering or cloud infrastructure teams
- Required Skills
- AWSKubernetesCI/CDDevOpsTerraform
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in technology roles
- 5+ years managing engineering or cloud infrastructure teams in cloud-native environments
- Deep expertise within the AWS ecosystem, including EKS/Kubernetes, IAM, VPC, RDS, and scalable cloud infrastructure architecture
- Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform
- Advanced knowledge of GitOps methodologies, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, and CI/CD pipelines
- Proven experience managing large-scale cloud infrastructure budgets and implementing successful cloud cost optimization initiatives
- Strong understanding of scalability, reliability engineering, observability, and operational performance optimization
- Familiarity with cloud security principles, SOC 2 compliance, zero-trust architectures, and network security best practices
- Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of cloud platform engineers while fostering a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices.
- Oversee the scalability, reliability, performance, and security of cloud infrastructure supporting high-volume SaaS operations.
- Manage and optimize AWS-based environments, including EKS/Kubernetes clusters, networking, storage, and cloud-native services.
- Drive operational excellence by improving CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, observability systems, and infrastructure automation processes.
- Partner closely with finance and leadership teams to manage cloud spending, improve cost visibility, and implement effective FinOps strategies.
- Define and enforce infrastructure governance standards related to security, scalability, deployment processes, and platform reliability across engineering teams.
- Act as a technical advisor on cloud architecture decisions and support product teams in building scalable infrastructure solutions by default.
- Identify operational bottlenecks, propose architectural improvements, and lead strategic infrastructure initiatives from conception through execution.
- Communicate complex technical tradeoffs and infrastructure strategies clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Support security and compliance initiatives through modern cloud security practices, access controls, and infrastructure governance frameworks.