Lead the India-based Infrastructure Platform Engineering team at Aera Technology, managing SRE and platform engineers to ensure reliable, scalable cloud infrastructure. Drive operational excellence and cross-team collaboration in a global AI decision intelligence company.

About the Company

Aera Technology is a pioneer in the Decision Intelligence Platform category and a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for 2026. The company enables enterprises to digitize, augment, and automate decision-making processes using AI and machine learning. Their AI decision automation platform, Aera Decision Cloud, helps well-known global brands make smarter, faster decisions. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Aera is a Series D startup with a global team of over 400 employees across offices in Mountain View, San Francisco, Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Paris, Munich, London, Pune, and Sydney. The company is venture-backed and privately held.

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced engineering manager to lead our Infrastructure Platform Engineering team in Pune, India. This team is part of our global Site Reliability Engineering organization and includes Infrastructure Platform Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers. You will own the performance, development, prioritization, and day-to-day effectiveness of the India-based team. You will also serve as the key representative for the Infrastructure Platform Engineering team within the India office, collaborating with software engineers, data scientists, program managers, release teams, and other technology stakeholders. This role requires 2-3 hours of daily overlap with US Pacific Time.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership:

• Manage, coach, and develop a team of Infrastructure Platform Engineers and SREs through regular 1:1s, performance feedback, goal setting, and career development.
• Set clear expectations and development plans that grow engineers toward greater technical ownership, communication skills, and independence.
• Own the team's day-to-day execution, workload prioritization, and delivery commitments.
• Lead hiring and onboarding as the team grows.

Operational Excellence:

• Collaborate with TechOps leaders to define and maintain the team's operating standards, including on-call, change management, incident response, and post-incident follow-up, aligned with global SRE and Platform Engineering practices.
• Lead the team's incident response and work with Problem Management to drive corrective actions to completion.
• Balance operational responsibilities, project work, automation, technical debt, and reliability improvements.
• Identify recurring operational challenges and drive lasting improvements with the team and partner technical leads.

Cross-Team Partnership:

• Serve as the primary infrastructure engineering representative within the India office.
• Build working relationships with software engineering, data science, program management, release teams, and other partner organizations.
• Resolve priorities and dependencies across teams.
• Represent the team in planning, release, and operational discussions to ensure reliability, supportability, and operational concerns are addressed early.
• Keep the India team aligned with the broader global Platform Engineering organization.

Tech Stack

• Kubernetes and containerized environments
• Public cloud platforms: Azure, AWS
• Monitoring and observability tools
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• CI/CD pipelines
• Automation frameworks
• Incident management and SRE practices

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering or related discipline (SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Operations)
• 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 preferred)
• Familiarity with production systems, monitoring/observability, incident management, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and automation
• Experience supporting business-critical production systems
• Strong technical depth to understand infrastructure and reliability issues
• People-management skills including coaching, feedback, performance management, and career development
• Organizational and prioritization skills with sound judgment around operational risk
• Experience coordinating work across multiple teams (software dev, data science, release engineering, program management)
• Experience in a geographically distributed global engineering organization
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Competitive salary and company stock options
• Comprehensive medical coverage including Group Medical Insurance, Term Insurance, Accidental Insurance
• Paid time off
• Maternity leave
• Limited access to online professional courses for professional and personal development
• People manager development programs
• Flexible working environment
• Fully-stocked kitchen with snacks and beverages when working from the office