Honeywell

Sr Engineering Manager

Honeywell Bangalore South, Karnataka, India

Automation Machinery Manufacturing · 10,001+ employees

3 h ago
engineering-manager Principal (10+ yrs) Full-time India
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About the role

You will lead a high-performing team to design, build, and maintain scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems while championing SRE best practices. Additionally, you will manage incident responses, optimize observability platforms, and mentor staff to foster a growth-oriented engineering culture.

What they look for

SRE Kubernetes Terraform Python PowerShell Cloud Computing Observability Incident Management Automation Infrastructure as Code Distributed Systems Capacity Planning Performance Tuning Chaos Engineering Stakeholder Management Leadership

Requirements

Candidates must have 15+ years of experience with a strong background in software engineering, cloud platforms, and container orchestration. Proficiency in programming languages like Python or PowerShell and experience with Infrastructure as Code tools are required.

Full description

We are seeking a highly technical SRE Leader to bridge software engineering and operations. You will lead a high-performing team to design, build, and maintain fault-tolerant, scalable, and highly available distributed systems. You will champion SRE best practices, reduce manual operations (toil) via automation, and partner with product development squads to embed reliability into the software delivery lifecycle

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

1. Reliability Strategy & SLO Management

  • Define and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets alongside product teams.
  • Establish reliability benchmarks and enforce architectural standards across the enterprise.
  • Act as an evangelist for the SRE mindset, driving a proactive rather than reactive operational culture. 

2. Incident Response & Observability

  • Lead cross-team efforts during critical production outages and high-severity incidents.
  • Conduct blameless postmortems to identify root causes and implement systemic preventive measures.
  • Optimize observability platforms, telemetry, and distributed tracing to surface actionable alerts without noise

3. Automation & Architecture

  • Write robust software to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment pipelines.
  • Spearhead capacity planning, performance tuning, and chaos engineering experiments.
  • Build internal developer tooling that accelerates time-to-market while strictly controlling operational risk

4. Team Leadership & Mentorship

  • Mentor and develop SRE staff through continuous technical training and career pathing.
  • Foster an inclusive, growth-oriented engineering culture.
  • Collaborate with executive leadership, security, and dev teams to align technical scaling with overarching business goals
  • Partner with Product, Security, and Core Engineering teams to align operational goals.
  • Exceptional incident command, stakeholder management and communication skills.

5. Cross-Functional collaboration

Qualifications

Required Qualifications & Tech Stack

Experience Level: 15+ yrs

  • Education: Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Engineering Background: Strong proficiency in programming or scripting languages such as PowerShell or Python.
  • Cloud & Infrastructure: Hands-on expertise with major cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, or AWS).
  • Container Orchestration: Deep experience managing containerized workloads at scale using Kubernetes.
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency with Terraform or similar orchestration tools.
  • Monitoring Tooling: Familiarity with observability stacks (e.g., Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).

Soft Skills: Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and cross-functional leadership skills

Honeywell Technologies is a global, pure-play automation company with a legacy of innovating to help solve the world’s most mission-critical challenges, enhancing the quality of life for people and communities around the world. We serve the building, industrial and process sectors with a broad portfolio of services, solutions and products, underpinned by our Honeywell Technologies Accelerator operating system and Honeywell Technologies Forge intelligence layer. By combining the deep domain expertise of our more than 50,000 employees with decades of data from our global installed base, we are uniquely positioned to lead the industrial sector’s transition from automation to autonomy.

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