Engineering Manager - Infrastructure

About the role:

We are looking for an Engineering Manager for our Platform & Infrastructure team who can lead & scale critical infrastructure functions across Network, Security, DevSecOps and build a highly scalable, secure and reliable foundation.

What you will do:

• Own the architecture and evolution of slice's cloud security and hybrid network infrastructure

• Lead, hire and scale the network & security team.

• Drive infrastructure-as-code and platform automation.

• Lead cloud networking, cloud interconnects, hybrid connectivity, and network security.

• Design highly available and secure network architectures across regions, environments, and critical workloads.

• Drive security by design across infrastructure and developer workflows.

• Establish guardrails that prevent insecure infrastructure from reaching production.

• Own infrastructure security controls across IAM, Identity Center, encryption, key management, secrets and workload security.

• Build and scale DevSecOps practices, integrating security controls into CI/CD and infrastructure lifecycle.

• Partner with Cybersecurity/AppSec/GRC/SOC teams to close security and compliance gaps.

• Ensure security controls are measurable, auditable, and continuously improved.

• Partner with engineering teams to ensure the runtime platform can support rapid product scale

• Define and drive SLIs, SLOs, error budgets and reliability metrics.

• Lead initiatives around availability, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and incident management.

• Improve the organization's ability to detect, diagnose, and recover infrastructure failures.

What you will need:

• 2+ years of experience managing and building high-performing engineering teams.

• Deep expertise in cloud and data-center networking, connectivity and network security.

• Strong understanding of IAM, SSO, PAM, secrets management, encryption and security architecture.

• Experience with firewalls, WAF, IDS/IPS, and cloud security controls.

• Strong understanding of DevSecOps, CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code.

• Strong SRE fundamentals covering reliability, observability, incident management, DR, and capacity planning.

• Experience designing infrastructure for high-scale, highly available, and regulated environments.

• Strong understanding of Linux, networking, and distributed systems.

• Ability to balance security, reliability, scalability, engineering velocity, and cost.

• Experience in fintech, banking, or other highly regulated environments.

• Experience with multi-cloud/hybrid-cloud environments.

Life at slice:

Life so good, you’d think we’re kidding:

• Competitive salaries. Period.

• An extensive medical insurance that looks out for our employees & their dependents. We’ll love you and take care of you, our promise.

• Flexible working hours. Just don’t call us at 3AM, we like our sleep schedule.

• Tailored vacation & leave policies so that you enjoy every important moment in your life.

• A reward system that celebrates hard work and milestones throughout the year. Expect a gift coming your way anytime you kill it here.

• Learning and upskilling opportunities. Seriously, not kidding.

• Good food, games, and a cool office to make you feel like home. An environment so good, you’ll forget the term “colleagues can’t be your friends”.

We believe in equality. Period.

At slice, we are committed to building a diverse and talented workforce. We never discriminate on the basis of race, sex, religion, colour, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, disability, or any other class or characteristic protected by the applicable law.

We consider all qualified job-seekers with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the applicable law. Additionally, we are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities in order to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Come join our crew!

About slice:

slice

A new bank for a new India

slice’s purpose is to make the world better at using money and time, with a major focus on building the best consumer experience for your money. We’ve all felt how slow, confusing, and complicated banking can be. So, we’re reimagining it. We’re building every product from scratch to be fast, transparent, and feel good, because we believe that the best products transcend demographics, like how great music touches most of us.

Our cornerstone products and services: slice savings account, slice UPI credit card, slice UPI, and slice business are designed to be simple, rewarding, and completely in your control. At slice, you’ll get to build things you’d use yourself and shape the future of banking in India. We tailor our working experience with the belief that the present moment is the only real thing in life. And we have harmony in the present the most when we feel happy and successful together.

We’re backed by some of the world’s leading investors, including Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Advent International, Blume Ventures, and Gunosy Capital.