Senior Engineering Manager – Productivity Engineering

FamPay

full-time

Posted on: 9/4/2025

Location: 🇮🇳 India

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AWSCloudDistributed SystemsKubernetesMicroservicesTerraform

About the role

Lead and manage a team of 6–8 platform engineers building scalable infrastructure, automation tools, internal platforms, and testing frameworks.
Own end-to-end delivery of platform initiatives including cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes orchestration, CI/CD pipeline enhancements, IaC automation, and platform testing strategies.
Establish and enforce best practices for infrastructure management, deployment processes, automated testing, monitoring, and incident response.
Collaborate closely with product engineering teams, security, and IT to align platform capabilities and quality standards with business needs.
Drive improvements in system reliability, performance, testing coverage, and developer productivity through automation and tooling.
Identify bottlenecks in platform operations, development workflows, and testing processes; champion process improvements and technology upgrades.
Foster a culture of knowledge sharing, continuous learning, high-quality engineering, and innovation within the platform team.

10+ years of software engineering experience with exposure to platform engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, and testing/QA.
4–5 years of people management experience (managed teams).
Hands-on experience with automated testing tools for functional and NFR testing.
Proven experience leading and scaling engineering teams focused on platform or infrastructure projects.
Strong expertise with cloud platforms (preferably AWS), Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi).
Deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, deployment strategies, and quality assurance best practices.
Experience with monitoring, alerting, incident management, and testing of distributed systems.
Excellent communication and leadership skills.
(Good to have) Experience in fintech/payments or regulated industries; DORA framework familiarity; security and compliance knowledge; microservices and service mesh experience; test automation tools; Agile methodologies; cost optimization and cloud governance.