Provide the Senior Manager, Cloud Platform with accurate, verified status reporting on the India-based team's work -- cross-checked against actual system and repository state, not summarized from memory or secondhand updates.
Coordinate with the Principal and Expert Platform Engineers on platform architecture and standards, ensuring the India-based team's work aligns with the broader platform's GitOps, Terraform, and AKS conventions.
Escalate technical or delivery risks early and directly, rather than allowing status to be discovered after the fact.
Support hiring, onboarding, and skill development for the India-based team, including closing gaps in Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD fundamentals where needed.
Apply policy-as-code and security standards already established on the platform (Kyverno or equivalent) when reviewing team output.
Required Qualifications
5+ years in platform, infrastructure, or site reliability engineering roles, including some prior people-management or formal technical-lead experience.
Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes, ideally AKS specifically -- sufficient to personally review a team member's cluster or workload change and identify problems.
Working Terraform experience, including the ability to review a submitted module for correctness, reusability, and adherence to documented standards.
GitOps experience (ArgoCD, Flux, or equivalent) -- all infrastructure and cluster changes should trace to a git commit as a matter of practice, not preference.
Demonstrated ability to produce accurate, verifiable status reporting to senior leadership.
Experience managing engineers directly, including performance management, prioritization, and workload planning.
Working fluency in policy-as-code tooling (Kyverno, OPA/Gatekeeper, or equivalent).
Preferred Qualifications
Experience managing a distributed or offshore engineering team reporting to a manager in a different region.
Practical, current experience using AI-assisted development tools in daily engineering work.
Experience with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, or equivalent).
Background modernizing legacy automation (PowerShell or similar) toward Terraform or platform-native replacements.