Senior Manager, Client Technology

• Directly manage India-based Cloud Platform engineers, including workload assignment, prioritization, and day-to-day people management
• Review and approve Terraform module submissions and AKS configuration changes for correctness, standards compliance, and production readiness
• Enforce issue-based work tracking, triage and prioritization, work-in-progress limits, and daily status updates
• Provide accurate, verified status reporting on the India-based team's work, cross-checked against system and repository state
• Coordinate with Principal and Expert Platform Engineers on platform architecture and standards
• Ensure team work aligns with GitOps, Terraform, and AKS conventions
• Escalate technical or delivery risks early
• Support hiring, onboarding, and skill development for the India-based team
• Apply established policy-as-code and security standards, including Kyverno or equivalent, when reviewing team output

• 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 review cluster or workload changes and identify problems
• Working Terraform experience, including reviewing modules for correctness, reusability, and adherence to documented standards
• GitOps experience with ArgoCD, Flux, or equivalent
• 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 such as Kyverno, OPA/Gatekeeper, or equivalent
• 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 such as Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, or equivalent
• Background modernizing legacy automation such as PowerShell toward Terraform or platform-native replacements