Senior Engineering Manager, DevOps.

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Job Description

This position is part of the DAIV System Team a centralized DevOps and software infrastructure organization based in Bangalore that supports multiple software product development teams across the EMEA region. These teams develop desktop and web applications for data management image processing and visualization workflows.

The DAIV System Team provides CI/CD infrastructure software lifecycle management developer tooling platform engineering AI enablement and cybersecurity support across the software development lifecycle.

As theSenior Manager DevOps & Platform Engineering you will lead the people technology strategy and operational execution for the containerized platforms CI/CD capabilities and engineering practices used by our web and desktop application teams.

You will be accountable for building and developing a high-performing DevOps organization while providing strong technical leadership across cloud-native architecture Kubernetes platforms software delivery automation developer productivity reliability and secure software supply-chain practices. You will work closely with global software engineering leaders architects product teams cybersecurity specialists infrastructure teams and business stakeholders to translate product and organizational priorities into scalable platform capabilities. The successful candidate will combine deep technical credibility with strong people leadership organizational planning stakeholder management and execution discipline. This role requires the ability to operate strategically while remaining sufficiently hands-on to guide architectural decisions review critical

implementations and support the resolution of complex technical and operational challenges.

This role expands upon the technical leadership Kubernetes CI/CD containerization security reliability and lifecycle-management responsibilities defined in the DevOps Lead position.In This Role You Will

Lead manage coach and develop a high-performing team of DevOps engineers platform engineers and technical leads supporting multiple global product teams.

Own workforce planning hiring onboarding performance management career development retention and succession planning.

Establish clear team objectives responsibilities operating models and accountability aligned with product and organizational priorities.

Build an inclusive engineering culture focused on technical excellence customer impact collaboration continuous learning and responsible innovation.

Develop future technical and people leaders through mentoring regular feedback capability assessments and meaningful growth opportunities.

Balance team capacity across strategic initiatives platform operations cybersecurity needs product-team support lifecycle upgrades and technical-debt reduction.

Strategy and Technical Leadership

Define and execute the DevOps and platform engineering strategy for commercial web and desktop applications.

Own the technical roadmap for CI/CD containerization deployment automation developer tooling environment management observability and platform operations.

Provide architectural leadership for the secure scalable and reliable delivery - and Python-based services using Docker and Kubernetes.

Establish architecture principles engineering standards reusable patterns reference implementations and governance mechanisms across product teams.

Evaluate technology decisions based on business value scalability security reliability maintainability cost compliance and time to market.

Remain technically engaged in critical initiatives architecture reviews proofs of concept complex technical decisions and high-severity issue resolution.

DevOps Platform and Delivery Engineering

* Lead the design and continuous improvement of reusable GitHub or GitLab CI/CD templates shared automation runners artifact repositories container registries and developer tooling.

Define secure and standardized Docker build and runtime patterns - and Python-based services.

Establish and govern Kubernetes deployment models using Helm and Rancher or comparable Kubernetes management platforms.

Drive infrastructure-as-code configuration-as-code automated environment provisioning and repeatable deployment practices.

Establish effective build testing packaging release rollback and deployment strategies that improve delivery quality and speed.

Improve developer experience by reducing pipeline complexity deployment friction environment inconsistencies and repetitive manual effort.

Reliability and Operational Excellence

Define observability reliability availability supportability and troubleshooting standards for platforms pipelines deployment environments and web services.

Establish service-level indicators operational metrics dashboards alerts and reporting mechanisms to monitor platform health and performance.

Implement effective incident-management escalation communication recovery and post-incident review practices.

Lead or oversee root-cause analysis and corrective and preventive actions for complex pipeline container deployment and platform incidents.

Identify systemic operational risks and drive automation resilience improvements capacity planning and disaster-recovery readiness.

Define service ownership and support models and use operational data and customer feedback to drive continuous improvement.

Lifecycle and Technology Management

Own lifecycle strategies for Kubernetes Rancher operating-system components base images build agents CI/CD platforms artifact repositories and other shared technologies.

Develop and execute upgrade migration deprecation and end-of-support plans that minimize product disruption and technical risk.

Ensure foundational technologies remain secure supportable current and aligned with enterprise architecture and cybersecurity standards.Prioritize and manage platform technical debt obsolescence risks and long- term maintainability needs.

Coordinate lifecycle changes and technology-governance decisions with product teams architects cybersecurity infrastructure and other stakeholders.

Portfolio Delivery and Stakeholder Management

Establish annual and quarterly objectives prioritized roadmaps milestones resource plans and success measures for the DevOps and platform engineering organization.

Manage multiple concurrent initiatives and ensure predictable delivery against agreed scope quality schedule and business priorities.

Partner with product engineering architecture cybersecurity and infrastructure leaders to translate business and product needs into platform investments.

Resolve priority and capacity conflicts through transparent decisions based on customer impact business value technical risk dependencies and available resources.

Define and track performance indicators for delivery speed deployment quality platform reliability security adoption developer productivity and team effectiveness.

Communicate strategy progress risks dependencies decisions and outcomes clearly to engineering teams and senior stakeholders.

Besides That You Have

Bachelors / masters degree in engineering with at least 15 years of relevant professional experience in software engineering DevOps platform engineering cloud engineering or a related field.

Demonstrated experience leading and developing DevOps or platform engineering teams including hiring performance management coaching career development workforce planning and succession planning.

A proven track record of defining and executing technical strategies platform roadmaps engineering standards and organizational improvements across multiple product teams.

Strong technical expertise in CI/CD GitHub or GitLab Docker Kubernetes Helm Linux Rancher or comparable platforms artifact management and container registries.Experience supporting secure build test packaging and deployment workflows

- and Python-based commercial web applications preferably on Azure or AWS.

Deep knowledge of cloud-native architecture infrastructure as code observability reliability engineering release management incident response and secure software supply-chain practices.

Strong stakeholder management communication problem-solving and decision-making skills with the ability to lead complex initiatives and influence distributed multicultural teams.