Sr engg manager, sre & platform automation

Senior Engineering Manager, Site Reliability & Platform Automation

We have an opportunity for a Senior Engineering Manager, Site Reliability & Platform Automation to join our SaaS Platform Engineering team in Bangalore, India, reporting to the Senior Director, Site Reliability & Platform Engineering. In this pivotal role, you will build and lead a new team of engineers responsible for advancing reliability engineering, platform automation, and self-service capabilities across Infoblox’s global cloud networking and SaaS platforms. Collaborating closely with DevOps, CloudOps, product engineering, architecture, security, and product management teams, you will establish a measurable reliability practice, reduce operational toil, and help product engineering teams own more of their DevOps lifecycle. You will also champion the responsible use of AI-assisted tools to improve engineering productivity, operational analytics, automation, and incident decision support.

Be a Contributor — What You’ll Do

• Build and lead a high-performing team of nine engineers while recruiting, onboarding, coaching, and developing team members in parallel
• Define and execute the team charter, roadmap, operating model, and delivery priorities across reliability measurement, toil automation, resilience testing, and self-service enablement
• Establish reliability practices across High Availability, SLO/SLI, Error Budgets, Chaos/DR Testing, Change Management Governance, Incident Response, Observability, and Application Team Performance & Capacity Tuning
• Define SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, reliability targets, and evidence-based maturity measures for critical and core services
• Partner with product engineering teams to improve observability, capacity planning, incident response, change safety, and production readiness
• Reduce operational toil across NA DevOps, IN DevOps, and CloudOps Engineering by automating CVE remediation, EKS and RDS upgrades, third-party provider testing, and recurring infrastructure workflows
• Establish a measured baseline for keep-the-lights-on work and drive reduction from approximately 48% of capacity toward the organization’s 29% target
• Build golden paths, Terraform modules, and Kyverno policies that enable product teams to provision and operate services independently
• Shift ownership of deployments, operational readiness, SLOs, and routine DevOps activities toward the teams that build and own the services
• Lead intake and prioritization across four engineering teams, communicate trade-offs, and report progress against committed wave dates

Be Prepared — What You Bring

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or a related technical field, including 3+ years managing software or infrastructure engineering teams
• Hands-on engineering foundation with the ability to review code, evaluate architecture, guide technical decisions, and maintain a strong engineering bar with senior engineers
• Broad experience across platform infrastructure, developer tooling, automation, reliability engineering, and production operations
• Demonstrated success building and scaling a team while hiring, onboarding, and delivering work concurrently
• Experience establishing or operating reliability practices such as SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, observability, incident response, capacity planning, or disaster recovery
• Experience reducing operational toil through measurable baselines, automation outcomes, capacity impact, and adoption metrics
• Strong experience with AWS or GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD systems, and automation using Python, Go, or a comparable language
• Proven ability to shift ownership left and build internal platforms or self-service capabilities that product engineering teams adopt
• Practical experience using AI-assisted engineering or operational tools for productivity, analytics, automation, content generation, or decision support, with appropriate human oversight
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field; Master’s degree preferred

Nice to have

• Experience operating Kubernetes and cloud platforms at multi-tenant, multi-region, or organizational scale
• Experience across both AWS and GCP, including regulated environments such as FedRAMP, SOC 2, or ISO-controlled platforms
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, Datadog, or comparable observability platforms
• Experience with policy as code, including Kyverno, OPA, or Gatekeeper
• Experience with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitOps, or Argo
• Experience applying LLM-based or agentic tooling to operational workflows
• Experience managing distributed engineering teams across US and India time zones
• Experience carrying on-call responsibility, serving as an incident commander, or making production decisions during high-severity incidents