Platform Engineering Maneger

About the role

We’re looking for a Manager for our Platform Engineering team in the Veeam Data Cloud (VDC) team. The mission of the Platform Engineering team is to provide a secure, reliable, and easy to use platform to enable our teams to build, test, deploy, and monitor the VDC product.  

 

As the Platform Engineering Manager, you will build and lead a high-performing, remote-first team, establish and execute the vision for our platform systems, and champion a product mindset. 

 

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong leadership and communication abilities to build a cutting-edge Platform Engineering team and systems.  

What you'll do

Product Ownership: 

• Define and communicate the vision and strategy for the team. 
• Champion a product mindset. 
• Establish and track metrics for adoption, productivity, and reliability. 

 

Team building and leadership: 

• Build and mentor a motivated and cohesive team. 
• Foster an inclusive and diverse environment. 
• Promote career development. 

 

Technical Excellence: 

• Guide the design, implementation, and operation of cloud native platform systems. 
• Promote operational excellence, reliability and security 
• Encourage the adoption of modern IAC, automation, CI/CD, and observability tools. 

 

Cross functional collaboration: 

• Partner with engineering, product, security and SRE teams to ensure the platform aligns with business objectives. 
• Act as point of escalation and support during on-call rotations 
• Remove organization bottlenecks. 
• Play active role in broader engineering leadership. 

 

Continuous Improvement: 

• Actively participate in design discussions and code reviews. 
• Promote cross team collaboration. 

What you'll bring 

• 3+ years of experience leading engineering teams in the Platform, DevOps, or SRE domains. 
• 5+ years of hands-on experience as an engineer. 
• Experience building and operating high-scale cloud-native applications. 
• Experience promoting a culture of Operational excellence with SaaS products. 
• Experience with public cloud infrastructure
• Experience automating infrastructure through code using technologies such as Pulumi or Terraform.
• Experience with GitHub Actions and other modern CI/CD tools.
• A breadth and depth of hands-on experience public cloud services.
• Ability to prioritize well, communicate clearly and understand how to drive a high level of focus and excellence with a talented and opinionated team.
• High emotional intelligence, excellent communication skills, and empathy for others.
• Sound business judgment, proven ability to influence others, and strong analytical thinking skills are critical to success in this position.
• Demonstrated ability to formulate data driven decisions that lead to results.
• Demonstrated ability to conceptualize, manage, and prioritize multiple projects.

Bonus Skills 

• Experience with Azure 

What you'll get

• 18 paid vacation days, plus three global VeeaMe Days for self-care and 24 volunteer hours annually
• Private medical coverage for you and up to four dependents
• Life, accident, and disability insurance with enhanced coverage
• Wellbeing allowance for physical and mental wellness
• Free confidential counselling and coaching via Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Meal, fuel, and transportation benefits based on work arrangement
• Daycare reimbursement and safe cab facility for eligible employees
• Professional training and education, including courses and workshops, internal meetups, and unlimited access to our online learning platforms (LinkedIn Learning, Athena, O’Reilly) and mentoring through our MentorLab program

 

Please note: If the applicant is permanently located outside India, Veeam reserves the right to decline the application.

 

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