Manager, Technology

Location: IND-Pune-Smartworks

Remote Type: Hybrid (8 days/month)

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

• Job Description Summary
  Designs, develops, tests, debugs and implements more complex operating systems components, software tools, and utilities with full competency. Coordinates with users to determine requirements. Reviews systems under development and related documentation. Makes more complex modifications to existing software to fit specialized needs and configurations, and maintains program libraries and technical documentation. May coordinate activities of the project team and assist in monitoring project schedules and costs.
• Job Description Summary

  • Total years of experience required: 10+ years
  • Experience in product release cycle, best practices, code reviews and defect management.
  • Efficient in handling team of 6-8 engineers.
  • Out of the box thinking and creative problem solving skills is desired
  • Works with the architects and product owners/managers to design and implement innovative solutions to address specific business problems.
  • Works with the IT Operations team to deploying monitoring and performance tuning of deployed applications.
  • Identifies optimal technologies to solve a business problem. Works with ever evovling Observability space and find out new tools, features, etc that can be integrated into systems to improve observability, tracing, logging etc.
  • Involved in creating POC, interact with architect within groups to strategize development and build technical roadmap.
  • Helps in maintaining proper product documentation.
  • Supports and mentors team members by providing training, advice, coaching and educational opportunities
  • Promotes culture of using various AI tools in SDLC including Co-pilot, claude, etc.

  Job Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in information technology or related field.
  • Preferred 12+ years’ experience in Observability domain.
  • Extensive experience of working in Agile, pariticipating in various L0, technical design, roadmap initiatives.
  • Strong hands-on experience required in Datadog. Should be proficient or have past experience in implementing Datadog at an Organization level.
  • Strong experience in driving adoption of new features for developers, setting-up COPs and drive onboarding of developers on the platform.
  • Passionate about sharing your experiences and knowledge and growing your team.
  • Ability to creatively handle challenges and obstacles, innovating solutions balancing both immediate needs with longer-term ownership and maintenance of solutions
  • Preferred experience in ArgoCD & Argo Workflow, Github actions, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm/Kustomize, Azure DevOps.
  • Preferred Knowledge in GitOps & microservices architecture
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills, coupled with solid teamwork ethic and customer focus.

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