ThoughtSpot - Engineering Manager - DevOps

Description :

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 ThoughtSpots 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/on?prem 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/on prem 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.