Engineering Manager - Cloud Operations

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager – Cloud Operations to lead and scale our Cloud Operations and DevOps initiatives. You will manage a high-performing team, drive operational excellence across multiple cloud platforms, and ensure our infrastructure is secure, scalable, and reliable as we grow.

If you thrive in fast-paced environments, have strong technical depth, and are passionate about

building resilient platforms with a start-up mindset, we’d love to talk to you.

Responsibilities

● Lead and manage the Cloud Operations / DevOps team, fostering a culture of ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement.

● Drive operational excellence across cloud infrastructure (AWS / GCP / Azure), ensuring high availability, performance, and cost efficiency.

● Define and own SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs, and ensure effective monitoring, incident management, and on-call processes.

● Build and maintain scalable, secure, and cost-optimized environments across multi-region and multi-cloud deployments.

● Manage and improve CI/CD pipelines and adopt GitOps practices.

● Establish strong observability frameworks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.) and reduce MTTR through automation.

● Drive cloud security and compliance best practices (IAM, secrets management, auditing, SOC2, ISO27001, GDPR, HIPAA as relevant).

● Ensure disaster recovery, backup strategies, and business continuity planning are in place and regularly tested.

● Collaborate with engineering, product, and data teams to balance speed and reliability in deployments.

● Identify opportunities for automation, performance tuning, and infrastructure cost optimization.

● Mentor and grow the team; partner with leadership on hiring, career development, and retention of top talent.

● Align cloud strategy with business goals and contribute to long-term architectural decisions.

Requirements

● 8–12 years experience in Cloud Operations, DevOps, or SRE roles.

● 2–3 years of experience managing small to medium-sized technical teams.

● Strong experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure).

● Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation).

● Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and microservices at scale.

● Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, observability tools, and incident response frameworks (PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Squadcast).

● Experience managing cloud costs and driving optimization initiatives.

● Strong communication, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

● Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

Good to Have

● Familiarity with multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments.

● Exposure to data platforms and ML infrastructure (MLOps tools like SageMaker, Vertex AI, Kubeflow, MLflow).

● Cloud certifications (AWS/GCP/Azure).

Why Join Us?

● Build and scale modern cloud platforms from the ground up.

● Define the culture, processes, and growth path of the Cloud Ops function.

● Work with cutting-edge technologies and best practices.

● Impact a rapidly growing organization by shaping infrastructure at scale.

● Thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with autonomy and ownership.