Engineering Manager - DevOps

About the role:

ThoughtSpot is seeking a DevOps Engineering Manager based in Hyderabad to lead and grow a DevOps team that powers our CI/CD platforms, developer productivity tooling, and infrastructure. This is a hands-on engineering management role, ideal for someone with approximately 14 years of industry experience, including the last 2+ years managing engineers.

You will balance people leadership with deep technical involvement owning build systems, release pipelines, cloud and hybrid infrastructure, and day-to-day operational excellence that enables ThoughtSpot's high-scale SaaS platform.

What you will do:

Team Leadership & Execution

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of DevOps engineers.
• Set clear goals, execution plans, and quality bars for the team.
• Foster a culture of ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement.

CI/CD & Build Systems

• Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines using Bazel and Jenkins.
• Improve build performance, reliability, and scalability across large codebases.
• Partner with application teams to standardise build and release best practices.

Artifact & Dependency Management

• Manage enterprise-scale artifact repositories using JFrog Artifactory.
• Define standards for versioning, promotion, retention, and supply-chain security.

Multi-Language Platform Support

• Support build and release workflows for Java (Gradle), Go, C++, and Python.
• Work closely with engineering teams to optimise language-specific tooling and workflows.

Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure

• Operate and improve DevOps practices across AWS and GCP environments.
• Support DevOps and infrastructure operations for internal/onprem data centres.
• Enable Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, observability, and cost optimisation.

Reliability, Security & Operations

• Drive operational excellence through automation, monitoring, and alerting.
• Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and preventive improvements.
• Ensure CI/CD and infrastructure platforms meet security and compliance requirements.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Management

• Work closely with application engineering, security, IT, and customer-facing teams.
• Actively participate in design and architecture reviews, highlighting risks and improvement areas.

What you will bring:

• 14 years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, build & release, or infrastructure roles.
• 2+ years of experience in people management or technical team leadership.
• Strong hands-on experience debugging CI/CD failures, infrastructure issues, and production incidents.
• Deep expertise with Bazel and large-scale build systems.
• Strong hands-on experience with Jenkins.
• Experience with JFrog Artifactory and artifact lifecycle management.
• Proven experience supporting Java (Gradle), Go, C++, and Python build systems.
• Solid experience operating production systems on AWS and/or GCP.
• Experience with internal/onprem data centre infrastructure and hybrid cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD best practices, DevOps principles, and Infrastructure-as-Code.

Who you are:

Technically Hands-On You enjoy diving deep into build systems, pipelines, and infrastructure, and you are comfortable troubleshooting complex issues.

People-Focused Leader You care deeply about coaching, mentoring, and growing engineers while holding a high bar for execution and quality.

Problem Solver You bring strong systems thinking and remain calm and effective when handling operational and reliability challenges.

Platform Mindset You understand that great developer platforms and reliable infrastructure are force multipliers for engineering velocity.

Customer Minded You recognise that reliable builds, releases, and infrastructure directly impact customer trust and success.

Hybrid Work at ThoughtSpot: This office-assigned role is available as a hybrid position. Spotters assigned to an office are encouraged to experience the energy of their local office with an in-office requirement of at least three days per week. This approach balances the benefits of in-person collaboration and peer learning with the flexibility needed by individuals and teams.