Engineering Manager

Platform9

Pune City

Hybrid

INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Compensation and Equity

Medical Healthcare for you and your family

Generous Time-Off Programs

Hybrid Work Model

Professional Development/Global certifications

Reward and Recognition Programs

Team-building activities

Hackathon

Company-wide programs

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead their talented team in delivering cutting-edge cloud-native solutions. This role involves collaborating with product managers, mentoring engineers, and ensuring high-quality deliverables. The company is committed to employee well-being, offering competitive compensation and a hybrid work model. Join a dynamic environment where your leadership can drive significant impact in the cloud technology landscape, and help shape the future of enterprise cloud solutions. This is a fantastic opportunity for those passionate about technology and team development.

Qualifications

10 years experience in large-scale distributed systems required.
Experience in leading infrastructure engineering teams is essential.

Responsibilities

Execute product roadmap with product managers and engineering leads.
Hire, mentor, and guide engineers on technical tasks.

Skills

Distributed Systems

Team Leadership

Cloud Development

Mentoring

Organizational Skills

Technical Support

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Master's in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenStack

Node.js

Python

Golang

Job description

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Lead Recruiter - Platform9: A Better Way to Go Cloud Native

Job Title: Engineering Manager

Reporting To: Director of Engineering

Member of: Engineering Group

About Us:

Platform9 empowers enterprises with a faster, better, and more cost-effective way to go cloud native. Its fully automated container management and orchestration solution delivers cost control, resource reduction, and speed of application deployment. Its unique always-on assurance technology ensures 24/7 non-stop operations through remote monitoring, automated upgrades, and proactive problem resolution. Innovative enterprises like Juniper, Kingfisher Plc, Mavenir, Rackspace, and Cloudera achieve 4x faster time-to-market, up to 90% reduction in operational costs, and 99.99% uptime. Platform9 is an inclusive, globally distributed company backed by leading investors.

In addition to serving a healthy base of customers with our core managed kubernetes and managed openstack product offerings, we have recently launched a new product, EMP, that maximizes EKS utilization and reduces costs. We are looking for an engineering manager to own, improve, and deliver Platform9’s leading product(s).

Responsibilities:

Work with product managers and engineering leads to execute the product roadmap.
Hire, mentor and guide engineers on the team on technical tasks and career development.
Work with the customer support team to help manage customer escalations.
Have an unwavering commitment to quality deliverables.
Provide technical support to solutions team for pre-sales activities.

Ideal Characteristics/Profile:

Bachelors or Masters degrees in computer science or a related discipline. Extensive related work experience is also acceptable.
10 years experience as a hands-on engineer or leader in large-scale distributed systems.
3 years experience in a lead/management role for an infrastructure engineering team.
Built and led strong engineering teams in the distributed systems space.
Mentor and motivate team members, along with aiding their growth and advancement.
Exposure to and understanding of open-source projects.
While not limited to specific technologies, some exposure to public/private cloud-based development with the big 3 clouds, OpenStack, Kubernetes, and languages like Node.js, Python, and Golang is desirable.
Technically proficient enough to drive tradeoff evaluations and execution decisions. Dives deep and understands tradeoffs in technology and strategy decisions.
Can manage geographically distributed teams, even with small numbers of individual contributors in different locations.
Strong organizational skills: ability to manage schedule, people and cost/budget.
Culture fit: identifies with our core values.
Bar raiser - Amplifies the overall ability and productivity of the team.

Nice to have:

Exposure to application development in the cloud-native landscape is a bonus.
Entrepreneurial bent - ability to balance growth with development.
Evangelism: interest and ability to be the spokesperson for Platform9 externally.
Familiarity with Kubernetes and the associated ecosystem.
Exposure to serverless and SaaS technologies, particularly within the Kubernetes ecosystem.

Benefits and Perks:

Employees today are looking for companies that truly care and recognize their whole person. Platform 9's benefits and perks have been carefully designed to ensure that we take care of an employee's emotions and physical well-being. Many of our benefits extend to families, who form a significant part of our well-being at work. Please note that benefits change by country.