Senior Engineering Manager - DevSecOps & Cloud

About the Role

We are looking for a dynamic and experienced Senior Engineering Manager with a strong architectural mindset to lead and evolve our Platform & DevOps function. This hybrid technical-leadership role demands both strategic vision and hands-on depth to build scalable, cost-efficient, AI-enabled, and reliable infrastructure and development workflows.

You will lead cross-functional initiatives across cloud architecture, CI/CD automation, DevSecOps and FinOps, while mentoring engineers and influencing architectural decisions across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

🔧 Strategic & Architecture Leadership

• Architect and oversee multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure strategies.

• Provide architectural guidance on scalable infrastructure, deployment patterns, and resilient system design.

• Identify and drive opportunities to embed AI and automation into platform capabilities for operational efficiency and developer enablement.

• Partner with product, engineering, and operations teams to align on technical direction and platform strategy.

☁ Cloud Architecture, Optimization & FinOps

• Lead modernization initiatives with cloud-native, containerized, and serverless architecture design.

• Embed automation across infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and operations.

• Drive cloud cost optimization through automation, governance, and resource efficiency.

• Champion FinOps practices, partnering with Finance to ensure usage aligns with cost accountability.

🔍 DevSecOps & Security Automation

• Integrate security practices into the CI/CD pipeline, enabling shift-left security.

• Drive adoption of secure defaults, vulnerability scanning, and compliance automation across cloud and app infrastructure.

• Partner with InfoSec and engineering teams to ensure governance, auditability, and policy enforcement across environments.

• Promote a security-first culture in developer workflows without compromising delivery speed.

🚀 CI/CD Automation & Developer Productivity

• Design and evolve secure, scalable CI/CD pipelines to streamline code delivery.

• Promote deployment patterns like blue/green, canary, and automated rollbacks.

• Improve developer experience through build tooling, workflow automation, and policy-based governance.

👥 People & Technical Leadership

• Act as a technical mentor and trusted advisor, guiding engineers on cloud and platform decisions.

• Foster a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.

• Enable team autonomy by building reusable frameworks, automation templates, and governance standards.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in DevOps, Security, infrastructure, or platform engineering roles.

• 5+ years in engineering leadership or architectural roles.

• Proven experience with AWS (preferred), GCP or Azure, and Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi).

• Strong expertise in cloud-native design, automation, and platform scalability.

• Working knowledge or practical exposure to AI-powered DevOps tools, AI observability, or intelligent automation

• Proficiency in CI/CD tools (GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD) and observability stacks (OTEL, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).

• Excellent leadership, communication, administration and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with FinOps frameworks and large-scale cloud spend optimization.

• Background in hybrid or multi-cloud architecture design and governance.

• A balance of deep technical expertise and people management experience.

• CKA, AWS Cloud certifications.