--- title: 'Manager, Infrastructure Platform Engineering at Aera Technology' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/manager-infrastructure-platform-engineering-aera-technology-pune-2paym1gqk8sc' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-14' --- # Manager, Infrastructure Platform Engineering at Aera Technology - **Company:** Aera Technology - **Location:** Pune, India - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-10-07 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/aeratechnology/ed500f84-2f28-436e-99b9-323eeb6908db ## Job description Aera Technology is the Decision Intelligence company. We deliver innovation and services that enable enterprises to operate sustainably, intelligently, and efficiently. Our platform, Aera Decision Cloud™, integrates with your existing systems to digitize, augment, and automate decisions in real time. Aera helps enterprises around the world transform decision making – delivering millions of recommendations that have resulted in significant revenue gains and cost savings for some of the world’s best-known brands. ## Responsibilities ## Team Leadership - Manage, coach, and develop a team of Infrastructure Platform Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers through regular 1:1s, performance feedback, goal setting, and career development. - Set clear expectations and development plans that grow engineers toward greater technical ownership, communication skills, and independence. - Own the team’s day-to-day execution, workload prioritization, and delivery commitments. - Lead hiring and onboarding as the team grows. Operational Excellence - Collaborate with TechOps leaders to define and maintain the team’s operating standards, including on-call, change management, incident response, and post-incident follow-up, in line with global SRE and Platform Engineering practices. - Lead the team’s incident response and work with Problem Management to drive corrective actions to completion. - Balance operational responsibilities, project work, automation, technical debt, and reliability improvements. - Identify recurring operational challenges and drive lasting improvements with the team and partner technical leads. Cross-Team Partnership - Serve as the primary infrastructure engineering representative within the India office. - Build working relationships with software engineering, data science, program management, release teams, and other partner organizations, and resolve priorities and dependencies across teams. - Represent the team in planning, release, and operational discussions, making sure reliability, supportability, and operational concerns are raised early and addressed. - Keep the India team aligned with the broader global Platform Engineering organization. ## About You - 8+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering or a related discipline (Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Operations), including 3+ years of direct management of engineering or technical teams. - Prior or current hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments. - Experience with public cloud platforms; Azure and AWS experience preferred. - Familiarity with production systems, monitoring and observability, incident management, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and automation. - Experience supporting teams that operate business-critical production systems. - Enough technical depth to understand infrastructure and reliability issues, communicate effectively with engineers, and make informed management decisions. - People-management skills, including coaching, feedback, performance management, and career development. - Organizational and prioritization skills, with sound judgment around operational risk, escalation, and resource allocation. - Experience coordinating work across multiple teams and stakeholder groups, including software development, data science, release engineering, and program management. - Experience working in a geographically distributed, global engineering organization. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills. If you share our passion for building a sustainable, intelligent, and efficient world, you’re in the right place. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, we're a series D start-up, with teams in Mountain View, San Francisco (California), Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Paris (France), Munich (Germany), London (UK), Pune (India), and Sydney (Australia).  So join us, and let’s build this! Aera Technology is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. ## Benefits Summary At Aera Technology, we strive to support our Aeranauts and their loved ones through different stages of life with a variety of attractive benefits, and great perks. In addition to offering a competitive salary and company stock options, we have other great benefits available. You’ll find comprehensive medical, Group Medical Insurance, Term Insurance, Accidental Insurance, paid time off, Maternity leave, and much more. We offer unlimited access to online professional courses for both professional and personal development, coupled with people manager development programs. We believe in a flexible working environment, to allow our Aeranauts to perform at their best, ensuring a healthy work-life balance. When you’re working from the office, you’ll also have access to a fully-stocked kitchen with a selection of snacks and beverages. ## About Aera Technology ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Aera Technology provides an agentic decision intelligence platform that automates and optimizes enterprise decisions in real time using AI. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B+; total funding $173.7M) - **Headquarters**: Mountain View, California, United States - **Founded**: 2017 - **Founders**: Frederic Laluyaux (Co-Founder, President & CEO) and Shariq Mansoor (Co-Founder & CTO) ## Core Business - Primary industry/industries: Decision Intelligence, Enterprise AI, SaaS - Target customers: Large enterprises (B2B) across supply chain, operations, finance, and other functions - Mission or purpose statement: “To make decision intelligence the operating system of the global enterprise.” ## Products & Services - **[Aera Decision Intelligence Platform]**: A SaaS platform that crawls enterprise systems, augments data, predicts risks and opportunities, recommends actions, executes them autonomously, and learns from outcomes. The platform is marketed as “the first agentic decision intelligence.” ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $30M (source: LinkedIn) and Total Funding of $173.7M (across 8 rounds, latest in 2022) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly listed in the provided search results, but the company has raised from multiple investors (details not given). The leadership team includes experienced operators, and the company has a board of accomplished individuals. - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 3.3% YoY to 338 employees; operates in 5 countries (US, Romania, Australia, France, Singapore) with engineering hubs in Pune, India, and London, UK; expanding sales roles in the Americas and Europe. ## Competitive Advantages - First-mover in the “decision intelligence” category, unifying data, analytics, AI, and automation. - Agentic platform that not only recommends but also acts autonomously, learning from every decision. - Strong enterprise focus with end-to-end visibility across operations, enabling faster, more accurate decisions. ## Strategic Focus - Scale the platform globally across enterprise functions (supply chain, operations, finance). - Continue to invest in AI/ML and autonomous decision-making capabilities. - Expand sales and customer success teams, particularly in the Americas and Europe. ## Why Work Here - Culture highlights: Emphasis on innovation, big challenges, integrity, accountability, and global teamwork. Rated 3.7/5 on Glassdoor (187 reviews): Work-Life 3.7, Compensation 3.4, Culture 3.9, Career 3.5. - Remote/hybrid/office policy: Hybrid roles available (e.g., Pune, India) and some fully remote US positions (e.g., Senior Software Engineer – CALC engine). Offices in Mountain View, San Francisco, Paris, Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Munich, London, and Pune. - Notable perks: Comprehensive healthcare plans, stock option grants, challenging work, professional growth opportunities. Uses AI tools in hiring with transparency. ## Sources 1. [aeratechnology.com](https://www.aeratechnology.com/) 2. [aeratechnology.com/about-us](https://www.aeratechnology.com/about-us/) 3. [aeratechnology.com/careers](https://www.aeratechnology.com/careers/) 4. 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