Manager, Platform Infrastructure Engineering

Anaplan. As the engine behind back-office system connectivity, you might not recognize our name, but our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, and Bayer are just a few of the 2,000+ companies that rely on our best-in-class platform and its native AI capabilities to see, plan, and lead their businesses. By dynamically connecting financial, strategic, and operational plans in real-time, companies trust Anaplan to give them the power to anticipate change, address complexity, deliver operational insights, increase profits, and stay ahead of their competition.

What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our commitment to our customers’ success and our collective motivation to achieve ambitious goals. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, and we behave like leaders irrespective of title. When you work for us, you’ll be part of a winning culture that’s dedicated to creating opportunities for our customers, partners, and employees. We hope you’ll join us. Let’s create something incredible together!

We’re looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Manager to lead our Platform Infrastructure operations team. You will be responsible for a team of engineers focused on the operational and maintenance aspects of our of Kubernetes clusters and in-cluster services that underpin Anaplan’s SaaS product offering.

This role encompasses a wide range of responsibilities where you’ll manage a team of junior and senior Infrastructure Engineers on the forefront of Anaplan’s mission critical infrastructure as well as leading business projects. Ideal candidates care passionately about the wellbeing and engagement of the people in their teams and the service that we provide to both our internal stakeholders and external customers.

Your Impact

• Day-to-day line management of an engineering team based in Gurugram.

• Coaching and supporting your engineers (from senior to junior levels) with their professional development.

• Leading the team in providing on-call coverage, responding and triaging platform alerts, and where necessary supporting incident management

• Overseeing the maintenance of the platform, including regular upgrades and patching, developing observability, platform maintenance tasks to improve resiliency and efficiency, addressing security vulnerabilities etc.

• Providing support to developer teams for their asks and queries related to the infrastructure.

• Driving high standards of engineering and operational practices across the team.

• Collaborating closely with stakeholders across the business, including Service Management, Release Management, Infrastructure Security, and Engineering & Development teams.

• Prioritisation and planning of operational work through Agile frameworks.

• Identifying opportunities to improve productivity, working practices and business processes.

Your Qualifications

• You have experience leading or mentoring engineers, either as a manager or a senior engineer.

• Experience managing an operations team, including managing on-call rotations and incident response.

• A good understanding of containerised workloads (e.g., Docker) and experience with Kubernetes is desirable.

• Previous experience with Public Cloud Hyperscalers (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

• A good understanding of DevOps practices and experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).

  Skills & Tags

  gorustawsgcpazurekubernetesdockerai