Engineering Manager - Windows Infrastructure
Summary
Leads a Windows Engineering team in Hyderabad for a global investment and technology development firm, designing and maintaining the firm's Windows infrastructure (Active Directory, Azure AD/Entra, Exchange, Hyper-V/VMware, SQL Server) and delivering infrastructure projects. Requires 14+ years with Windows technologies; team management, C#/Python preferred.
About the Role:
Our client is a leading global investment and technology development firm. They are looking for an Engineering Manager proficient in Windows-based and adjacent technologies to join its Windows Engineering team in Hyderabad.
The team is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing the firm's Windows infrastructure while working closely with other global teams in the Systems department.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leading a team of engineers to design, implement, and maintain reliable, scalable, and high-performance systems based on Windows technologies.
- Collaborating with stakeholders to gather requirements, translating business needs into technical projects, setting realistic timelines and priorities, and owning complete project delivery.
- Engaging in engineering project work and providing direction to enhance the overall configurability, observability, supportability, and reliability of the firm's technology environment.
- Upgrading and/or redesigning existing infrastructure to improve performance and stability.
- Acting as a techno-functional leader - hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers, and fostering a culture of collaboration, ownership, and technical rigor.
Tech Stack & Requirements:
- A bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering or a related technical discipline, with 14+ years of experience working on and managing Windows technologies.
- Extensive experience with more than one of the following: Active Directory, ADFS, Azure AD/Entra ID, MS Exchange/EXO, SCCM, SCOM, Hyper-V/S2D, VMware, Kubernetes or other virtualization and container management platforms, Failover Clustering, SQL Server.
- Advanced troubleshooting skills and experience with diagnostic/tracing tools like ETW, Procmon, WinDbg, Wireshark.
- Exposure to PowerShell and experience with modern configuration management and development tools (e.g., Git, continuous integration systems).
- Proven track record of technical leadership and managing technology teams for 3+ years (preferred).
- Experience handling escalations from Helpdesk, NOC, and other business groups, and proactively identifying/resolving production issues within the finance industry (preferred).
- Experience with C# and/or Python (preferred).