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inDrive is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and develop a team of infrastructure engineers responsible for critical production systems. This role combines people management with strong technical expertise, requiring a solid infrastructure background and deep knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes, distributed systems, networking, and infrastructure automation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead, manage, and develop a team of infrastructure engineers responsible for critical production systems
- Own team execution, delivery, and day-to-day prioritization in alignment with infrastructure strategy and architectural direction
- Run shared goals and collaborate with Infrastructure Security and other platform teams
- Translate infrastructure priorities into clear team plans and milestones for both infrastructure and product teams
- Work with Staff and Senior engineers to ensure technical solutions are delivered effectively and aligned with established architectural principles
- Ensure the reliability, availability, and operational readiness of systems owned by the team
- Own the team's operational practices, incident response, postmortems, and completion of follow-up actions
- Set clear expectations, run regular 1:1s, provide actionable feedback, and support engineers through performance reviews and Individual Development Plans
Requirements:
- 7+ years of experience in software, infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering, including 2+ years in an engineering management role within a Platform cluster
- Proven experience leading and developing engineering teams responsible for production infrastructure or platform systems
- Strong infrastructure engineering background, with sufficient technical depth to review architecture, challenge decisions, and work effectively with Staff and Senior engineers
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, especially AWS, Kubernetes, distributed systems, networking, and infrastructure automation
- Experience operating highly available, business-critical systems, including incident management, on-call, postmortems, capacity planning, and operational excellence
- Proven ability to set priorities, build execution plans, and deliver complex engineering initiatives while balancing reliability, technical debt, operational work, and long-term investments
- Ability to delegate technical ownership and enable senior engineers to lead major technical initiatives
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to align teams, manage dependencies, and resolve organizational, process, and technical bottlenecks
- Professional working proficiency in English
Nice to Have:
- Experience operating infrastructure across multiple regions, data centers, or hybrid cloud environments
- Experience managing teams with significant networking or distributed infrastructure responsibilities
- Experience working in organizations where infrastructure teams provide internal platforms and services to a large number of engineering teams
