Technical Manager - Python & Ansible Engineer

Bounteous; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 3,000,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Bounteous is seeking a hands-on Technical Manager with deep Python and Ansible expertise to lead a high-performing engineering/automation team. You will own solution architecture, set engineering best practices, drive automation at scale (infrastructure and application), and deliver secure, reliable systems.

The ideal candidate combines technical leadership with a strong delivery mindset and excellent stakeholder management, collaborating across teams to ensure successful outcomes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of total experience with 3-4 years in technical leadership/management.
• Async I/O, typing, packaging, virtualenv/poetry, pytest / pytest-xdist, linting/formatting (flake8/black), performance profiling.
• Frameworks: FastAPI/Flask/Django (at least one in production).
• Playbooks, roles, inventories, Jinja2 templating, dynamic inventories, Ansible Vault, Collections, AWX/Ansible Tower.
• Idempotency, testing (molecule), and performance tuning (strategies, forks, delegation).
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions/GitLab CI/Azure DevOps/Jenkins; artifact management, semantic versioning.
• Cloud (one or more): AWS/Azure/GCP; IAM, networking basics, VPC/VNet, load balancers, storage.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and people leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead a hands-on engineering/automation team delivering scalable, secure systems.
• Own solution architecture and engineering best practices across projects.
• Drive automation at scale for infrastructure and applications.
• Mentor engineers, align with stakeholders, and manage delivery milestones.
• Ensure high availability, performance, and reliability through robust design.

Skills

Technical leadership

Python

Ansible

DevOps

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Communication

Automation engineering

Tools

AWX/Ansible Tower

Ansible Playbooks

Jinja2 templating

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Job Title: Technical Manager - Python & Ansible Engineer

Location: Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai and Gurugram

Experience: 8 to 15 Years

Mode of Employment: Hybrid

Mandatory Skills: Python, Ansible or Terraform, Devops, Technical Lead or Technical Manager

Looking for immediate to 15 days joiners as this is immediate billing opportunity. Please apply only if you are available to join within 15 to 20 days.

Role Summary

We’re looking for a hands-on Technical Manager with deep expertise in Python and Ansible to lead a high-performing engineering/automation team. You will own solution architecture, set engineering best practices, drive automation at scale (infrastructure and application), and deliver secure, reliable, and scalable systems. The ideal candidate combines technical leadership with a strong delivery mindset and excellent stakeholder management.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of total experience with 3-4 years in technical leadership/management.
• Async I/O, typing, packaging, virtualenv/poetry, pytest / pytest-xdist, linting/formatting (flake8/black), performance profiling.
• Frameworks: FastAPI/Flask/Django (at least one in production).
• Playbooks, roles, inventories, Jinja2 templating, dynamic inventories, Ansible Vault, Collections, AWX/Ansible Tower.
• Idempotency, testing (molecule), and performance tuning (strategies, forks, delegation).
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions/GitLab CI/Azure DevOps/Jenkins; artifact management, semantic versioning.
• Cloud (one or more): AWS/Azure/GCP; IAM, networking basics, VPC/VNet, load balancers, storage.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and people leadership.