TechOps - DE - CloudOps - Infra - Manager

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Infra Support Engineer

The opportunity

As an Infra Support Manager, you will lead a high performing team of Infra & SRE engineers responsible for delivering stable, secure, resilient, and automated cloud/onprem environments.
You will be accountable for operational excellence, engineering maturity, stakeholder engagement, and strategic improvements across infrastructure platforms.

You will drive reliability, automation, proactive risk management, and continuous improvement initiatives while empowering your team through coaching, mentoring, and performance excellence.

Your key responsibilities

Leadership & People Management

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Senior and Junior Infra/SRE engineers.
• Own workforce planning, skill development, hiring, performance reviews, and succession planning.
• Promote a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Provide clear direction, remove blockers, and ensure teams deliver high‑quality outcomes.

Operational Ownership & Service Reliability

• Own end‑to‑end uptime, performance, and reliability metrics across supported infrastructure.
• Define, track, and report SLOs/SLIs, operational KPIs, observability maturity, and incident metrics.
• Lead major incident bridges, coordinate cross‑functional resolution, and ensure strong RCAs.
• Build proactive maintenance plans, reliability roadmaps, and ops maturity frameworks.

Strategic Planning & Improvements

• Identify long‑term operational risks, tech debt, and improvement areas; create mitigation plans.
• Drive automation-first strategy across provisioning, patching, monitoring, and compliance.
• Lead modernization initiatives such as cloud migration, DevOps adoption, and infra-as-code.
• Partner with architecture teams for platform decisions, capacity planning, and future scaling.

Stakeholder & Cross‑Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with application owners, environment management teams, cloud teams, cybersecurity, and leadership.
• Act as primary contact for service health, escalations, operational reviews, and client interactions.
• Present operational updates, dashboards, improvement actions, and reliability insights to leadership.

Governance, Compliance & Process Excellence

• Accountable for adherence to ITSM processes — Incident, Problem, Change.
• Ensure audit readiness, risk controls, and compliance across environments.
• Standardize runbooks, SOPs, and operational documentation across the team.
• Drive maturity in monitoring, alerting hygiene, RCA quality, and patching/vulnerability compliance.

Innovation, Automation & Engineering Excellence

• Advocate for modern engineering practices (SRE, DevOps, GitOps, IaC).
• Sponsor automation initiatives that eliminate toil and improve speed/quality.
• Encourage PoCs, new tool evaluations, and adoption of best‑in‑class observability solutions.

Skills and attributes for success

Leadership & Influence

• Strong people‑management, mentoring, and coaching abilities.
• Ability to inspire teams, build trust, and drive results through empowerment.
• Skilled in conflict management, team motivation, and performance alignment.

Technical Depth

• Strong understanding of Linux/Unix, Cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP), networking, monitoring, SRE concepts.
• Ability to review technical designs, challenge solutions, and provide SME guidance.
• Comfortable with automation standards, code reviews, and architecture discussions.

Strategic Thinking

• Ability to balance operational needs with long-term engineering improvements.
• Skilled in planning, risk management, prioritization, and capacity forecasting.

Operational Excellence

• Strong experience with ITSM, MIM leadership, RCA governance, and operational KPIs.
• Ability to drive reliability improvements and uplift monitoring/observability.

Communication & Collaboration

• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Skilled in presenting insights, leading discussions, and handling stakeholder escalations.
• Ability to influence without authority and coordinate across global teams.

Behavioral Strengths

• High ownership, proactive mindset, and calmness under pressure.
• Structured problem solver with a process‑driven approach.
• Operates with integrity, transparency, and customer‑centric mindset.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• 9–14 years of experience in Infra Support, Cloud Operations, DevOps, or SRE
• At least 3–5 years of people-management or technical‑leadership experience
• Strong expertise in Linux/Unix, Cloud Infrastructure (Azure/AWS/GCP), automation & monitoring
• Proven experience leading MIM bridges, RCAs, operational governance, and stakeholder interactions
• Hands-on exposure to automation, configuration management (Ansible), GitOps or IaC practices
• Strong understanding of SRE frameworks (SLIs/SLOs/error budgets)
• Experience managing patching, compliance, vulnerability remediation programs
• Ability to handle global teams in a follow‑the‑sun or 24x7 model
• Strong communication, decision-making, and leadership capabilities
• No location constraints; ability to work across time zones
• Experience leading cross‑functional technical discussions and providing SME guidance during design, automation, and troubleshooting sessions
• Proven ability to drive end‑to‑end operational improvements, including reducing MTTR, improving automation coverage, and strengthening monitoring maturity
• Strong experience in planning and executing environment upgrades, migrations, and lifecycle activities with minimal downtime
• Ability to create high‑quality technical documentation such as SOPs, runbooks, RCA reports, and automation playbooks
• Hands‑on experience in evaluating new tools, technologies, and cloud-native solutions to recommend improvements in stability, cost, and operational efficiency

Technologies and Tools

 Must have

• Advanced cloud expertise in Azure/AWS/GCP, including governance, cost optimization, IAM, networking, and platform reliability.
• Experience managing multi‑region, multi‑environment cloud infrastructures (production + non‑prod)
• Deep Linux/Unix expertise with ability to guide teams on performance, debugging, kernel tuning & security hardening.
• Strong understanding of enterprise networking — routing, firewalls, load balancers, VPN, proxies, DNS architecture.
• SRE Practitioner certifications
• Hands‑on experience with monitoring & observability ecosystems — Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Dynatrace, App Insights, CloudWatch, etc.
• Ability to define monitoring standards, alert hygiene policies, dashboards, and service health KPIs
• Strong automation skills using Ansible, Git/GitHub, Python/Shell/Bash, CI/CD tools.
• Experience implementing infrastructure-as-code or GitOps practices (Terraform, ARM/Bicep, CloudFormation exposure preferred).
• Strong patching, compliance, security, and vulnerability lifecycle understanding including interaction with Cyber/CTO teams..
• Hands‑on experience with ITSM tools – ServiceNow, Jira, Azure DevOps; ability to define processes and governance.
• Experience with virtualization & storage platforms (VMware vSphere, Veeam, NetApp, SAN/NAS concepts).
• Understanding of backup & DR planning, replication strategies, RPO/RTO design.
• Ability to evaluate new tools for observability, automation, compliance, or productivity.
• Good command of log analysis, event correlation & root cause isolation..
• Experience leading environment migrations, upgrades, modernization, or cloud transformation projects.

Good to have

• Cloud Architect or DevOps Professional
• Hands‑on Kubernetes knowledge (AKS/EKS/GKE) and container runtime concepts
• Knowledge of service mesh, ingress controllers, and container security
• Exposure to configuration‑drift tools like Puppet/Chef/SaltStack
• Familiarity with Zero Trust Security, MFA, identity governance, and cloud security tools
• Knowledge of SOAR/SIEM integrations in operational contexts
• Experience with FinOps practices — cost forecasting, budgeting, optimization reports
• Familiarity with ETL operations or data platform reliability (if supporting data workloads)
• Experience with SLO/SLI frameworks, reliability modeling, and capacity forecasting tools
• Knowledge of secrets management systems (Vault, Azure Key Vault, AWS KMS)
• Experience with workflow automation using ServiceNow, Logic Apps, Power Automate, Rundeck, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC2, NIST, CIS Benchmarks)
• Hands-on experience with log pipelines, agents, forwarders, and distributed tracing tools
• Understanding of API gateways, reverse proxies, and integration services
• Experience guiding teams in code review, standards enforcement, and automation best practices

What we look for

• Enthusiastic learners with a passion for cloud technologies and DevOps practices.
• Problem solvers with a proactive approach to troubleshooting and optimization.
• Team players who can collaborate effectively in a remote or hybrid work environment.
• Detail-oriented professionals with strong documentation skills.

What we offer

EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a dynamic and truly global delivery network. We work across six locations – Argentina, China, India, the Philippines, Poland and the UK – and with teams from all EY service lines, geographies and sectors, playing a vital role in the delivery of the EY growth strategy. From accountants to coders to advisory consultants, we offer a wide variety of fulfilling career opportunities that span all business disciplines. In GDS, you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe. We’ll introduce you to an ever-expanding ecosystem of people, learning, skills and insights that will stay with you throughout your career.

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

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