Manager, Infrastructure Platform Engineering

Pune · 3+ years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Oct 7, 2026

At a glance

Aera Technology is seeking a Manager, Infrastructure Platform Engineering to lead, coach, and develop a team of Infrastructure Platform Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers in Pune.
The role involves owning day-to-day execution, workload prioritization, and delivery commitments while driving operational excellence and cross-team partnerships.

Manage, coach, and develop a team of Infrastructure Platform Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers through regular 1:1s, performance feedback, goal setting, and career development.
Set clear expectations and development plans that grow engineers toward greater technical ownership, communication skills, and independence.
Own the team’s day-to-day execution, workload prioritization, and delivery commitments.
Lead hiring and onboarding as the team grows.
Collaborate with TechOps leaders to define and maintain the team’s operating standards, including on-call, change management, incident response, and post-incident follow-up, in line with global SRE and Platform Engineering practices.
Lead the team’s incident response and work with Problem Management to drive corrective actions to completion.
Balance operational responsibilities, project work, automation, technical debt, and reliability improvements.
Identify recurring operational challenges and drive lasting improvements with the team and partner technical leads.
Serve as the primary infrastructure engineering representative within the India office.
Build working relationships with software engineering, data science, program management, release teams, and other partner organizations, and resolve priorities and dependencies across teams.

8+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering or a related discipline (Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Operations), including 3+ years of direct management of engineering or technical teams.
Prior or current hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments.
Experience with public cloud platforms.
Familiarity with production systems, monitoring and observability, incident management, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and automation.
Experience supporting teams that operate business-critical production systems.
Enough technical depth to understand infrastructure and reliability issues, communicate effectively with engineers, and make informed management decisions.
People-management skills, including coaching, feedback, performance management, and career development.
Organizational and prioritization skills, with sound judgment around operational risk, escalation, and resource allocation.
Experience coordinating work across multiple teams and stakeholder groups, including software development, data science, release engineering, and program management.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Fully-stocked kitchen with a selection of snacks and beverages when working from the office