Sr Manager Client Technology

Altera Digital Health Inc.; India; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Altera Digital Health Inc. in India is seeking a Manager, Cloud Platform Engineers to lead the India-based platform and automation engineering staff.

This is a people-management role with deep technical ownership of Kubernetes and Terraform work, coordinating with US-based engineers to align with architectural direction. You will oversee day-to-day AKS operations, review team submissions, enforce process standards, and provide verified status reporting to senior leadership.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in platform, infrastructure, or SRE roles with people-management or technical leadership.
• Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes (AKS preferred) to review changes.
• Working Terraform experience to review modules for correctness and reusability.
• GitOps experience with ArgoCD, Flux, or equivalent; changes traced to git commits.
• Ability to produce accurate, verifiable status reporting to senior leadership.
• Experience managing engineers, including performance management and workload planning.
• Fluency with policy-as-code tooling (Kyverno, OPA/Gatekeeper, or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Directly manage India-based Cloud Platform engineers, including workload assignment and day-to-day people management.
• Review Terraform module submissions and AKS configuration changes for correctness and production-readiness.
• Enforce engineering process standards across the team (issue tracking, triage, WIP limits, daily status updates).
• Provide accurate, verified status reporting on the team’s work, cross-checked with actual system state.
• Coordinate with global engineers on platform architecture and standards.
• Escalate technical or delivery risks early and directly.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and skill development for the team, including gaps in Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD.
• Apply policy-as-code and security standards on reviews.

Skills

Kubernetes

AKS

Terraform

GitOps

Policy-as-code

Team leadership

Status reporting

Tools

ArgoCD

Flux

Kyverno

OPA/Gatekeeper

Job description

About the Role

We are hiring a Manager, Cloud Platform Engineers to lead our India-based platform and automation engineering staff. This is a people-management role with real technical ownership -- you will be evaluated as much on your ability to review and stand behind your team's Kubernetes and Terraform work as on how you manage the people producing it. You will oversee day-to-day execution of AKS operations and Terraform-based automation, working in close coordination with the US-based Principal and Expert Platform Engineers who set the platform's architectural direction. This role exists to provide direct, hands-on management and accurate technical oversight of the India-based team -- including work planning, prioritization, quality review, and status reporting to the Senior Manager, Cloud Platform. Reporting must reflect verified, actual system state; this is a core expectation of the role, not a formality.

What You'll Do

• Directly manage India-based Cloud Platform engineers, including workload assignment, prioritization, and day-to-day people management.
• Review and stand behind your team's Terraform module submissions and AKS configuration changes for correctness, adherence to documented standards, and production-readiness before they are considered complete.
• Enforce engineering process standards across the team: issue-based work tracking, triage and prioritization before work begins, work-in-progress limits, and daily status updates.
• 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.

Originally posted on Himalayas