Tech Lead Manager-Core Infrastructure

Eightfold AI; Bengaluru; Sur place; INR 900 000 - 1 500 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Eightfold AI in Bengaluru seeks a hands-on Tech Lead Manager to guide a small infra team. You’ll code as much as you lead, set direction, review designs, and mentor.

You’ll manage AWS infrastructure, scale Kubernetes in production, and drive IaC with Terraform, CloudFormation, and Helm. This role demands strong leadership, clear communication, and a passion for building reliable systems.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of cloud infrastructure / DevOps experience with leadership roles.
• Hands-on Kubernetes operations and scaling experience.
• Proficient in AWS core services, networking, IAM, and cost management.
• Strong Python and Bash scripting for automation.
• Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, and Helm.
• Proven ability to manage on-call, incidents, and postmortems.
• Experience mentoring 3–4 engineers and guiding career growth.

Responsabilités

• Lead a team of 3–4 infrastructure engineers and mentor their growth.
• Own architecture and roadmap for cloud infrastructure across compute, networking, and tooling.
• Stay hands-on with coding, PR reviews, and complex initiatives.
• Build scalable, secure, cost-efficient AWS infrastructure.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm.
• Operate Kubernetes in production, including upgrades and capacity planning.
• Own on-call processes, incident response, and postmortems.
• Automate workflows with Python and Bash.
• Collaborate with security, product, and application teams.
• Evaluate new tools (GitOps) to improve velocity and reliability.

Connaissances

Kubernetes

AWS

Python

Bash

Code reviews

Mentorship

Incident response

Outils

Terraform

CloudFormation

Helm

ArgoCD

Flux

Description du poste

About The Role

We're looking for a hands-on Tech Lead Manager (TLM) to lead a small, high-impact infrastructure engineering team. This role is for someone who codes as much as they lead — you'll be setting technical direction, reviewing designs and PRs, and staying close to production, while also owning team execution, hiring, and mentorship. You should be equally comfortable debugging a production incident at 2 AM and writing a quarterly roadmap.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and grow a team of 3–4 infrastructure/platform engineers — set priorities, run 1:1s, mentor, and support career growth
• Own the technical architecture and roadmap for cloud infrastructure across compute, networking, and platform tooling
• Stay hands-on: write code, review PRs, design systems, and personally drive complex or high-risk technical initiatives
• Build and maintain scalable, secure, and cost-efficient infrastructure on AWS
• Drive Infrastructure as Code practices across the team using Terraform, CloudFormation, and Helm
• Operate and scale Kubernetes clusters in production, including upgrades, capacity planning, and reliability improvements
• Champion an operational mindset — own on-call processes, incident response, postmortems, and continuous reliability improvements
• Automate operational workflows using Python and Bash
• Partner with cross-functional teams (security, product, application engineering) to align infrastructure with business needs
• Evaluate and introduce new tools/practices (e.g., GitOps workflows) to improve developer velocity and system reliability

Must-Have Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure / platform / DevOps engineering, including prior experience leading or mentoring engineers
• Strong hands‑on expertise with Kubernetes (cluster operations, troubleshooting, scaling, upgrades)
• Deep experience with AWS (core services, networking, IAM, cost and capacity management)
• Strong coding ability in Python and Bash for automation and tooling
• Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code: CloudFormation, Terraform, and Helm
• Demonstrated operational mindset — comfortable owning uptime, incident response, and on‑call practices for a production environment
• Experience leading or tech‑leading a small team (3–4 engineers), including code/design reviews and technical mentorship

Good to Have

• Experience with Azure and/or OCI
• Proficiency in Go
• Hands‑on experience with GitOps workflows and tooling (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux)

What We’re Looking For

• A strong individual contributor at heart who has grown into (or is ready to grow into) people leadership
• Someone who leads by example technically — writing code and setting the bar, not just delegating
• Excellent judgment under pressure, especially during incidents
• Clear communicator who can translate technical tradeoffs to both engineers and stakeholders