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Aera Technology is a Decision Intelligence company that helps enterprises digitize, augment, and automate decisions in real time through its Aera Decision Cloud platform. The company is Series D-funded, headquartered in Mountain View, California, with global offices across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
This role leads the Infrastructure Platform Engineering team in the Pune office, managing a team of Infrastructure Platform Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers. You will be responsible for team development through regular 1:1s, performance feedback, goal setting, and career planning. You'll own day-to-day execution, workload prioritization, and delivery commitments while leading hiring and onboarding as the team grows.
Operationally, you will collaborate with TechOps leaders to define and maintain operating standards including on-call rotations, change management, incident response, and post-incident follow-up aligned with global SRE and Platform Engineering practices. You'll lead the team's incident response efforts, work with Problem Management to drive corrective actions, and balance operational responsibilities with project work, automation, technical debt, and reliability improvements. You'll identify recurring operational challenges and drive lasting improvements with the team and partner technical leads.
Cross-functionally, you serve as the primary infrastructure engineering representative within the India office, building relationships with software engineering, data science, program management, and release teams. You'll represent the team in planning and operational discussions to ensure reliability and operational concerns are raised early, and keep the India team aligned with the broader global Platform Engineering organization.
Aera offers competitive salary, company stock options, comprehensive medical and group insurance, term and accidental insurance, paid time off, maternity leave, unlimited access to online professional courses, people manager development programs, and a flexible working environment.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 8+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Operations, including 3+ years of direct management of engineering or technical teams
- Prior or current hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments
- Experience with public cloud platforms; Azure and AWS experience preferred
- Familiarity with production systems, monitoring and observability, incident management, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and automation
- Experience supporting teams that operate business-critical production systems
- Sufficient technical depth to understand infrastructure and reliability issues, communicate effectively with engineers, and make informed management decisions
- People-management skills including coaching, feedback, performance management, and career development
- Organizational and prioritization skills with sound judgment around operational risk, escalation, and resource allocation
- Experience coordinating work across multiple teams and stakeholder groups including software development, data science, release engineering, and program management
- Experience working in a geographically distributed, global engineering organization
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
