Engineering Manager, Infrastructure Platforms at GitLab

Position Details

Type Full-Time

Experience lead

Exp. Years Not specified

Education Not specified

Category DevOps & SRE

About this role

Engineering Manager for Infrastructure Platforms leads the Tenant Services Geo team, focusing on outages, migrations, and geo-related escalations for GitLab Dedicated and Geo across Hosted services.

Key Responsibilities

Hire and manage SRE team in India
Oversee geo cutovers and migrations
Drive operational metrics
Coordinate with Geo, Dedicated migrations, and Support
Improve cutover processes and coverage

Technical Overview

Leads SRE team in India, responsible for data hygiene, migration execution, post-cutover support, and coordinate with core Geo team, Dedicated migrations, and Support. Focus on high-risk cutovers and reducing migration time.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior engineering leader with deep SRE experience, leading India-based Site Reliability Engineers and Geo-focused migrations. They excel at cross-functional coordination, rotation planning for cutovers, and delivering reliable migrations with strong operational metrics.

Must-Have Skills

Experience hiring and managing a team of Site Reliability Engineers in IndiaAbility to manage shift models and weekend coverage for high-risk cutoversCross-functional collaboration with Geo teamDedicated migrationsSupport

Nice-to-Have Skills

Experience with migration projectsDisaster recovery planningGeographically distributed teams

Tools & Platforms

GitLabSRE tooling

Required Skills

Site Reliability EngineeringIncident ManagementData MigrationsGeo DataCross-functional CollaborationTeam Leadership1:1sOperational MetricsCutover PlanningOn-call Rotation

Hard Skills

Site Reliability EngineeringIncident ManagementData migrationsGeo data migrationsCross-functional collaborationTeam leadership1:1sOperational metricsCutover planningOn-call rotation

Soft Skills

LeadershipCoachingCommunicationTime managementCollaborationProblem-solving

Industry & Role

Industry SaaS

Job Function Lead a high-performing Site Reliability Engineering team for infrastructure platforms

Role Subtype Platform Engineer

Tech Domains Site Reliability Engineering, Geo Data, Data Migrations, Incident Management, Cross-functional Collaboration, GitLab, Linux, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Geo operations

Keywords for Your Resume

engineering managersresite reliability engineergeotenant servicesdedicated migrationscutoversdata migrationson-call rotationincident managementleadershipteam managementremote indiacross-functionalgeo teamsupportsre toolinggeographic coveragetime zones

Deal Breakers

No SRE leadership experience, No track record of managing GEO migrations, Lack of cross-functional collaboration skills

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