Senior Manager, Solution Engineering (Devops)

Role Responsibilities

As a Senior Manager Solution Engineering (Devops) you will be responsible for driving DevOps Cloud and SRE strategy along with team and stakeholder management for enterprisescale missioncritical platforms in the Payment Transfer / FinTech domain. You will also -

• This role requires ambition thinking big self-motivation and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced collaborative and startup-like environment
• Define execute and govern DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) strategy across enterprise platforms
• Act as the DevOps & SRE leadership anchor from India leading teams across Pune and Hyderabad and collaborating closely with onshore stakeholders in Denver
• Supporting a variety of complex systems infrastructure and applications.
• Apply Devops CI/CD principles to ensure system reliability scalability and performance.
• Define and implement Service Level Objectives (SLOs) Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for critical systems and services.
• Establish and manage error budgets ensuring alignment with business priorities and reliability goals.
• Manage our internal systems to ensure that critical infrastructure is operating optimally and implement mechanisms to prevent service impacting incidents.
• Utilize trends & metrics to identify opportunities for improvements within existing frameworks tools and processes to continuously improve systems.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate business requirements into measurable targets.
• Advocate for a reliability-first culture balancing feature velocity with system stability.
• Develop automation tools and scripts (Python Go) to eliminate manual tasks streamline deployments enable scaling and provision infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Proactively identify diagnose and resolve complex production issues performing deep Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and driving preventive measures.
• Design build and maintain robust monitoring alerting and logging systems (Dynatrace Prometheus Grafana) to provide actionable insights into system health.
• Lead incident management processes and postmortem reviews for continuous improvement.
• Engineer solutions to scale systems optimize performance and manage capacity for future growth.
• Collaborate with Development Security and Operations teams to embed reliability security and operational best practices throughout the software lifecycle.
• Execute success through diligent planning attention to detail effective delegation and efficient decision-making.
• Interface and collaborate with other engineers in geographically distributed development centers.
• Strong emphasis on customer journey product quality performance tuning troubleshooting and continuous development
• Drive AI awareness and intelligent automation within DevOps and SRE practices
• Building leading and managing a high-performing team of engineers and leads.
• Hold regular 1 1s with direct reports help them navigate challenges and coach them for their career development.
• Be a culture champion on the team and across the company.

Role Requirements

• A minimum of 15 years of professional experience in engineering work as well as minimum of 4 years of experience in leading engineering teams around Devops.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWSGCP or Azure ) and Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform Ansible).
• Excellent understanding of monitoring tools (Dynatrace Grafana) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Good understanding of distributed systems networking and security principles.
• Good technical skills in architecture patterns solutions design and integration development.
• Familiarity with integrations APIs
• Good experience with DevOps tools such Jenkins/Gitlab CI Jfrog Artifactory Sonar Gradle Ansible Docker Rundeck or Ansible Tower and AWS services
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for managing both direct and indirect talent effectively.
• Overseeing technical analysis cost and effort estimation production environment platform/system design architectural fit and compliance resource schedules delivery milestones collaboration and overall production environment quality.
• Good acumen in designing building deploying and operating cloud systems as well as resolving critical issues
• Collaborate with other teams and engineers to find innovative solutions for moderately complex problems.

• Excellent decision-making and collaboration skills.

Work Shift

Western Union values in-person collaboration problem solving and ideation whenever possible. We believe this fosters common ways of working and supports how we execute initiatives for our customers. The expectation is to work from the office a minimum of three days a week.

BENEFITS AND OTHER DETAILS

Benefits

You will also have access to short-term incentives multiple health insurance options accident and life
insurance and access to best-in-class development platforms to name a few. Please see the benefits below specific to your country. If applicable additional role-specific benefits will be mentioned during your interview process or in an offer of employment.

Your India specific benefits include:

• Employees Provident Fund EPF
• Gratuity Payment
• Public holidays
• Annual Leave Sick leave Compensatory leave and Maternity / Paternity leave
• Annual Health Checkup
• Hospitalization Insurance Coverage (Mediclaim)
• Group Life Insurance Group Personal Accident Insurance Coverage Business Travel Insurance
• Cab Facility
• Relocation Benefit

Other Details

As part of the application process all applicants are required to take assessments. Western Union has partnered with a 3rd party provider to administer these tests. Applicants will need to provide their name and email address in order to process the assessments. If you have any questions you may reach out to .

We are passionate about honoring our employees identity and fostering a feeling of belonging. Our commitment is to provide an inclusive culture that celebrates the unique backgrounds and perspectives of our global teams while reflecting the communities we serve. We do not discriminate based on race color national origin religion political affiliation sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation gender identity age disability marital status or veteran status. The company will provide accommodation to applicants including those with disabilities during the recruitment process following applicable laws.

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