Staff Manager - DevOps

harman; India; Hybrid; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

HARMAN Automotive is seeking a seasoned DevOps Manager to lead DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Cloud Operations teams. You will drive strategy, modernization, and governance while delivering scalable, secure platforms for enterprise applications.

This role requires deep hands-on technical leadership, a track record of CI/CD excellence, and strong collaboration with Architecture, Security, QA, and Product teams to achieve reliability and efficiency across hybrid environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE, Infrastructure or Platform Engineering.
• 3+ years of people leadership / managing engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead DevOps, Platform Engineering and Cloud Operations teams.
• Define DevOps strategy, roadmaps and governance.
• Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines for enterprise-scale apps.
• Manage cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure and GCP.
• Establish SRE practices, observability and incident management.
• Ensure security, compliance and cost optimization across platforms.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and manage vendor relations.

Skills

Leadership

DevOps

Cloud

CI/CD

SRE

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Kubernetes

GitOps

Job description

HARMAN's engineers and designers are creative, purposeful and agile. As part of this team, you'll combine your technical expertise with innovative ideas to help drive cutting-edge solutions in the car, enterprise and connected ecosystem. Every day, you will push the boundaries of creative design, and HARMAN is committed to providing you with the opportunities, innovative technologies and resources to build a successful career.

A Career at HARMAN

As a technology leader that is rapidly on the move, HARMAN is filled with people who are focused on making life better. Innovation, inclusivity and teamwork are a part of our DNA. When you add that to the challenges we take on and solve together, you'll discover that at HARMAN you can grow, make a difference and be proud of the work you do everyday.

Introduction: A Career at HARMAN Automotive

We're a global, multi-disciplinary team that's putting the innovative power of technology to work and transforming tomorrow. At HARMAN Automotive, we give you the keys to fast-tracking your career.

Engineer audio systems and integrated technology platforms that augment the driving experience

Combine ingenuity, in-depth research, and a spirit of collaboration with design and engineering excellence

Advance in-vehicle infotainment, safety, efficiency, and enjoyment

About the Role

DevOps Manager

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Manager to lead DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Cloud Operations teams. The candidate will drive DevOps strategy, cloud infrastructure modernization, CI/CD automation, platform reliability, security, and operational excellence. This role combines strong technical depth, people leadership, and business alignment to deliver scalable, secure, and highly available platforms supporting enterprise applications and digital transformation initiatives.

What You Will Do

Leadership & People Management

• Build, lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing DevOps team.
• Define team objectives, KPIs, development plans, and succession plans.
• Conduct coaching, performance discussions, hiring, onboarding, and capability development.
• Drive a culture of automation, innovation, ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Architecture, Security, QA, Product, and Program Management teams.

DevOps Strategy & Transformation

• Define and execute the DevOps and Platform Engineering roadmap.
• Lead cloud-native modernization initiatives and infrastructure transformation programs.
• Establish DevOps best practices, standards, governance, and operating models.
• Promote Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery practices.

CI/CD & Automation

• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for enterprise-scale applications.
• Automate build, test, security scanning, deployment, and release processes.
• Improve developer productivity through self-service platforms, reusable templates, and automation.
• Standardize deployment methodologies across products, services, and environments.

Cloud & Platform Engineering

• Manage cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
• Drive architecture decisions for scalability, resilience, disaster recovery, and cost optimization.
• Manage Kubernetes/OpenShift/EKS/AKS platforms and containerized workloads.
• Lead infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and related tooling.

Reliability & Operations

• Establish SRE practices, observability standards, and operational excellence frameworks.
• Define SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and reliability metrics.
• Lead incident management, root cause analysis, post-mortem reviews, and preventive actions.
• Ensure platform availability, performance, recoverability, and operational readiness.

Security & Compliance

• Implement DevSecOps practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Partner with Security teams to enforce compliance, vulnerability management, IAM, secrets management, and cloud governance.
• Ensure infrastructure and deployment pipelines meet enterprise security, audit, and compliance standards.

Stakeholder Management

• Communicate platform strategy, delivery progress, risks, and metrics to leadership and business stakeholders.
• Manage vendor relationships, tool evaluations, and technology partnerships.
• Participate in budget planning, capacity forecasting, license planning, and cloud cost optimization reviews.

Role Type

• People manager with hands-on technical leadership

Primary Focus

• DevOps transformation, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitOps, SRE

Experience Range

• 10+ years in DevOps/Cloud/SRE; 3+ years managing engineering teams

Work Model

• Hybrid / On-site / Remote as per organization policy

Reporting To

• Director / Senior Manager, Engineering or Platform Engineering

What makes you eligible

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE, Infrastructure Engineering, or Platform Engineering.
• 3+ years of exp