Senior Manager - DevOps

Greythr; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Greythr in Bengaluru seeks a Senior Manager DevOps to lead the DevOps function, cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, platform reliability, and operational excellence.

The role will define DevOps strategy, own organization-wide objectives, manage team goals and KRAs, and ensure timely delivery of key initiatives. You will work closely with Engineering, Product, Security, IT, and Business teams to drive reliability and cost optimization.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in DevOps/cloud infra or platform engineering.
• 3+ years in people management or technical leadership.
• Proven ability to define KRAs KPIs and delivery metrics.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP.
• Strong CI/CD experience with Jenkins GitLab CI GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.
• Expertise with Kubernetes Docker Linux networking and cloud-native infra.
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools such as Prometheus Grafana ELK Datadog New Relic or Splunk.
• Strong understanding of incident management release management change management and production support.
• Excellent leadership communication stakeholder management planning and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the DevOps strategy, roadmap, standards, and best practices.
• Own organization-wide DevOps objectives and ensure delivery within agreed timelines.
• Define, track, and review KRAs, KPIs, and goals for the DevOps team.
• Set clear goals for team members and support performance reviews, feedback, and career development.
• Lead, mentor, and manage DevOps engineers and technical leads.
• Drive CI/CD automation, release management, environment management, and deployment governance.
• Manage cloud infrastructure, scalability, availability, monitoring, and cost optimization.
• Implement infrastructure as code and automation using Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or similar.
• Oversee container platforms such as EKS and GKE.
• Drive SRE and reliability practices, including monitoring, alerting, incident management, RCA, SLAs, and SLOs.
• Work with security teams to implement DevSecOps, compliance, access controls, and vulnerability management.
• Plan resources, manage priorities, track delivery milestones, and report progress, risks, and issues to leadership.
• Build a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, automation, and continuous skills.

Skills

10+ years in DevOps cloud infra

People management

KRAs KPIs delivery metrics

CI/CD tools

AWS GCP

Kubernetes Docker Linux networking

Monitoring observability tools

Incident release change management

Leadership stakeholder management

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Job description

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Manager DevOps to lead our DevOps function, cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, platform reliability, and operational excellence.

The role will be responsible for defining DevOps strategy, owning organization-wide objectives, managing team goals and KRAs, and ensuring timely delivery of key initiatives.

Responsibilities

The ideal candidate should be a strong technical leader and people manager who can guide teams, drive accountability, improve processes, and work closely with Engineering, Product, Security, IT, and Business Responsibilities :

• Define and execute the DevOps strategy, roadmap, standards, and best practices.
• Own organization-wide DevOps objectives and ensure delivery within agreed timelines.
• Define, track, and review KRAs, KPIs, and goals for the DevOps team.
• Set clear goals for team members and support performance reviews, feedback, and career development.
• Lead, mentor, and manage DevOps engineers and technical leads.
• Drive CI/CD automation, release management, environment management, and deployment governance.
• Manage cloud infrastructure, scalability, availability, monitoring, and cost optimization.
• Implement infrastructure as code and automation using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or similar.
• Oversee container platforms such as EKS and GKE.
• Drive SRE and reliability practices, including monitoring, alerting, incident management, RCA, SLAs, and SLOs.
• Work with security teams to implement DevSecOps, compliance, access controls, and vulnerability management.
• Plan resources, manage priorities, track delivery milestones, and report progress, risks, and issues to leadership.
• Build a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, automation, and continuous Skills and Experience :

Skills and Experience

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure or platform engineering.
• 3+ years of experience in people management or technical leadership.
• Experience defining team KRAs, KPIs, goals, and delivery metrics.
• Strong experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, networking, and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, New Relic, or Splunk.
• Strong understanding of incident management, release management, change management, and production support.
• Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, planning, and problem-solving skills

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