Manager, Platform Engineering — Application Platform

Overview

Manager, Platform Engineering — Application Platform

📍 Location: Hyderabad, India 🏢 Work Arrangement: Hybrid – 2 days per week in the office

About the Role

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Application Platform team in Hyderabad — a newly formed team and a deliberate expansion of what our platform organization offers.

Hyland runs an internal Kubernetes platform that product teams deploy onto, across AWS and Azure. Two teams own it. One keeps the platform running. This team builds the interfaces product teams actually use — self-service provisioning of cloud resources, GitOps-based delivery and promotion, environment and tenancy management, and cloud-agnostic abstractions that behave the same way on either cloud. When a product team needs a queue, a bucket, an environment, or a path to production, they get it from this team's work — not from a ticket.

Some capabilities are already in motion, some already have users — but much of what this team will own is still to be defined and built. You'd be shaping it early, with real room to influence the direction rather than inherit it.

Success looks like product teams choosing the paved road over building their own, new services reaching production faster, developers who'd recommend the platform to a peer, and reliable operation of the services your team owns. If you think of other engineers as your customers and thrive at the intersection of technical leadership and platform strategy — we'd love to connect.

Your Role Responsibilities? Here's What You'll Do.

• Lead, coach, and grow a distributed team of platform engineers across multiple time zones — owning hiring, performance management, coaching, and career development to build a high-performing, accountable team.

• Own the direction of a self-service provisioning capability that lets product teams declare the cloud resources they need through a Kubernetes-native API, with security, tagging, and cost guardrails applied by default.

• Own the delivery and promotion capabilities product teams use to reach production — including GitOps-based deployment, environment progression, approval and traceability controls, and progressive delivery patterns for teams running clusters outside the central platform.

• Drive a set of workload abstractions that behave consistently across AWS and Azure, so a team productive on one cloud is equally productive on the other without reinventing their workflow.

• Treat adoption as a first-class outcome — define what good looks like, instrument it, reduce the time it takes a team to get from nothing to running in production, and retire work that isn't earning its keep.

• Run what you build — your team carries on-call for the services it owns and is accountable for reliability, security posture, and compliance obligations; partner with runtime infrastructure, developer experience, and product engineering to maintain a single coherent path onto the platform.

Technology Tools

• Kubernetes & Container Orchestration

• Cloud Platforms: AWS & Azure

• Kubernetes-Native Resource Provisioning & Custom Resource APIs

• GitOps & Continuous Delivery Tooling

• Infrastructure as Code & Policy as Code

• Cloud-Agnostic Workload Abstractions (Serverless Runtimes, Event-Driven Autoscaling, Service Invocation)

• Cloud Cost Visibility & Attribution

• Secrets Management & Workload Identity

• Monitoring, Logging & Observability

Role Essentials

• 5+ years leading engineering teams — including teams delivering platform, infrastructure, or developer-facing products — with a Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent experience; production Kubernetes depth with enough hands-on fluency to review your team's work credibly and make sound architectural decisions.

• Demonstrated experience building self-service capabilities or internal APIs that other engineering teams consumed — with evidence of the measurable adoption that followed; product instincts applied internally, prioritizing against outcomes rather than requests and saying no to work that won't move adoption.

• Strong hands-on fluency with infrastructure as code and cloud-native services on both AWS and Azure; experience operating under security and compliance obligations such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001.

• Experience leading a distributed engineering team across multiple time zones — including asynchronous collaboration, shared on-call responsibilities, and accountability for managing to a budget.

• Comfortable negotiating priorities, standards, and interfaces with peer managers; excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with working knowledge of Agile or Scrum delivery practices.

What We'd Like to See

• Built self-service capabilities that measurably reduced how often product teams needed to ask the platform team for anything — freeing both sides to move faster.

• Designed an API or abstraction that outlived the first use case it was built for — and successfully migrated consumers off a deprecated interface without stalling their roadmaps.

• Made a platform behave consistently across two clouds and turned developer experience from an opinion into something measured, tracked, and continuously improved.

• Grown engineers into senior or lead roles through intentional coaching, structured feedback, and deliberate career development investment.

• Background in enterprise software or another environment with real security scrutiny — where reliability, compliance, and customer trust are non-negotiable and built into how you operate.

About Hyland

Hyland is the pioneer of the Content Innovation Cloud™, delivering ubiquitous enterprise intelligence to organizations with solutions that unlock actionable insights and drive automation.

Trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, including many of the Fortune 100, Hyland's solutions create the foundation for a connected, agentic enterprise, where teams harness the power of AI to redefine how they operate and engage with those they serve. For additional information on Hyland's platform and services, please visit Hyland.com.

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Since 1991, it has been Hyland's mission to help our employees, customers and partners exceed their potential with our industry-leading content services platform. Our employees exude a contagious energy and are passionate about what they do – whether it's helping customers succeed, raising up their fellow Hylanders, or engaging in the communities where they live and work.

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