Engineering Manager - SRE
First seen by Alion on Nov 5, 2026.
Engineering Manager
The Engineering Manager SRE & DRE will lead and develop India-based Site Reliability and Database Reliability Engineers, owning their career growth, performance, wellbeing and team capability while acting as the senior technical authority (Principal SRE-level) during India working hours.
Total Experience: 7 - 15 years
About this role
The Engineering Manager (India) is a unique and critical role within WDigital's reliability engineering organisation, part of the Services, Operations and Infrastructure (SOI) division of Group IT. You carry two equally important accountabilities: the direct line management and career development of India-based Site Reliability and Database Reliability Engineers, and the senior technical leadership that keeps the India team moving forward with confidence and capability.
What you'll do
- Directly manage the career development, performance, wellbeing, and day to day experience of India-based SREs and DREs.
- Work closely with AU Engineering Managers to ensure India-based engineers are effectively integrated into their domain squads.
- Champion a blameless, psychologically safe engineering culture within the India team.
- Provide senior technical guidance and escalation capability during India working hours.
- Lead on complex and high-impact technical initiatives within the GCC, applying expertise close to Principal SRE level.
- Participate in architectural reviews, technical design discussions, and cross-squad reliability conversations.
- Collaborate closely with Principal SREs, Senior SREs, and Senior DREs to ensure technical standards are consistent.
What you'll bring
- A minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in SRE, platform engineering, or distributed systems roles.
- Demonstrated experience directly managing or leading a team of engineers.
- Deep, demonstrated experience in resilient cloud solution design and distributed systems architecture across a multi-cloud environment (GCP and Azure).
- Strong experience with enterprise-scale Kubernetes (GKE or AKS), Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Strong command of modern observability practice (Dynatrace, Splunk, NewRelic).
- Strong scripting and software engineering proficiency in at least one language (Go, Python, or Bash).
What you'll experience
- Be a part of Australia's largest retailer.
- Constant mentoring and training provided.
- Generous performance based bonus.
- 20 days annual leave.
- A flexible approach to work.
- Premium insurance coverage for you and your dependants.
Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group
Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We encourage all candidates to apply; please let us know in your application if we can support you with any adjustments in the hiring process.
Skills
Site Reliability, DevOps, Engineering Management, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, DynaTrace, Splunk, Python, Bash Scripting, Google Cloud Platform