Engineering Manager, Infrastructure Platforms
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- India
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Standing up the Tenant Services, Geo shift model and rotation for Dedicated cutovers across EMEA and US hours.
- Evolving a retryable, low-risk cutover model for Dedicated migrations, in partnership with core Geo and Dedicated leadership.
- Reducing cutover duration to unlock more weekday migrations and improve team sustainability.
- Driving operational metrics like escalation absorption, internal escalation rate, cutover coverage, and response times.
- Hire and manage a
with all members of your team, providing coaching and regular feedback around the . * Coordinate and continuously refine the team's shift and weekend coverage model for Dedicated migrations.
- Own operational execution of Dedicated Geo migrations and cutovers, including planning, pre-cutover preparation, live execution, and post-cutover validation and cleanup.
- Ensure the team provides high-quality, timely responses to Geo-related escalations from Support and internal partners.
- Foster technical decision making on the team, stepping in to make final decisions when necessary-especially during high-stakes migrations or incidents.
- Build and maintain runbooks, guardrails, and post-cutover reviews so the team operates with rigor rather than improvisation, especially during ramp-up.
- Collaborate with core Geo, Dedicated migrations, and other Infrastructure teams to identify and prioritize engineering investments that improve migration tooling and processes.
- Define, track, and report on key operational metrics such as escalation volume absorbed, internal escalation rate, cutover coverage, response times, and team health signals, using them to drive continuous improvement.
- Participate in the
- 3+ years of experience managing SRE, infrastructure, or platform engineering teams operating highly-available distributed systems at scale, ideally in a SaaS environment with customer-facing SLAs.
- Demonstrated ability to lead in a remote, high-performance environment, collaborating across multiple time zones and cultures.
- Experience running or significantly contributing to large-scale data migrations where customer data integrity and downtime risk must be carefully managed.
- Strong infrastructure background, including cloud platforms, observability, incident response, and distributed multi-tenant architectures.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts and risk trade-offs into clear, actionable insight for both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including customers.
- Strong problem-solving abilities and attention to detail, with a focus on delivering high-quality, low-risk operational outcomes in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Alignment with our company values and a commitment to working in accordance with those values.
- Experience working in or with managed/hosted environments similar to GitLab Dedicated, including regulated or compliance-sensitive customers (e.g., SOC2, ISO).
- Working knowledge of technologies commonly used in SRE and migration workflows (e.g., Kubernetes, Terraform, observability stacks, scripting languages).
- Used GitLab for personal or professional projects, and/or contributed to open source projects.
- Past experience working in an enterprise developer tools company or a high-growth infrastructure product company.
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