Tech Lead Manager-Core Infrastructure

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Job ID

68763783533

Date posted

09/02/2026

Department

Engineering

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