Manager, SRE

Overview

1. JOB IDENTIFICATION

APTEAN JOB TABLE:     Cloud ERP Infrastructure & Operations

APTEAN JOB LEVEL: F

APTEAN JOB TITLE: Manager, SRE

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Full line: Soundar Arunachallam
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2. GENERAL JOB SUMMARY

We are seeking an experienced and hands-on Cloud Infrastructure & Operations Manager to lead a team of 15 engineers responsible for managing the infrastructure layer of multi-tenant, cloud-hosted ERP products. The role covers platform reliability, product upgrades, cloud security, incident and preventive maintenance, disaster recovery, and compliance audits. This position also acts as a stage-gate for all production deployments, ensuring release readiness, rollback capability, and platform stability.

3. SCOPE

4. ORGANIZATION (Indicate the job positions reporting to this role)

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·       Job (# of positions): 1

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·       Job (# of positions): 1

5. PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Area

Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure Oversight

Oversee provisioning, monitoring, and scaling of cloud environments (primarily Azure) for ERP products. Ensure optimal performance, cost control, and platform stability.

SaaS Product Operations

Own product environment availability (Dev, UAT, Prod), plan platform upgrades, apply security patches, and manage certificates and access.

Incident Management

Lead incident response for outages and degradation. Perform RCA, document learnings, and implement post-mortem action items.

Preventive Maintenance

Define and execute regular health checks, patching schedules, environment cleanups, and alert tuning.

Disaster Recovery Planning

Develop and test DR/BCP plans. Ensure business continuity across all cloud-hosted environments.

Security & Compliance

Lead infrastructure-level compliance activities for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and secure deployment pipelines. Coordinate with infosec and audit teams.

Production Deployment Stage-Gate

Review and approve all deployment tickets. Validate readiness, rollback strategy, and impact analysis before production cutover.

Team Leadership

Lead, coach, and upskill a team of cloud and DevOps engineers. Foster a learning culture aligned with platform reliability and innovation.

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6. JOB SPECIFICATIONS

Education (Indicate the minimum level of education necessary for this position. Check all that apply and indicate specific degree as applicable to the side (e.g., Bachelor's in Computer Science)

Required     Preferred Degree/Certification

 ☒ ☐ Bachelor's degree

 ☐ ☒ Master's degree

 ☐ ☐ Ph.D.

 ☐ ☐ J.D. (law)

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 ☐ ☐ Other:

Work Experience

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• B.E./B.Tech/MCA in Computer Science or equivalent.

• years of experience in Cloud Infrastructure / SaaS Operations.

• years managing teams in a cloud product environment (preferably multi-tenant SaaS).

• Strong hands-on knowledge of Azure (VMs, PaaS, Networking, Monitoring, Identity).

• Experience with ERP platforms (SAP Cloud, Infor, Oracle Cloud, or custom-built ERP solutions).

• Good grasp of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC).

• Familiarity with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and data privacy compliance.

• ITIL or SRE certification preferred.

Skills Matrix (Manager-Level & Team Needs)

Skill Category Skill/Tool Manager Level Team Required

Cloud Platform Azure (App Services, VM, Networking, Storage, Defender Advanced

ERP Infra       Multi-tenant ERP hosting, Cloud DB tuning, PaaS scaling Advanced     

DevOps CI/CD (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions), Automation Intermediate 

IaC     Terraform / Bicep / ARM Templates Intermediate 

Monitoring & Logging Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics Advanced     

Incident Management ITIL, On-call Runbooks, RCA Writing Expert

Preventive Ops Scheduled health checks, capacity management   Expert

Security & Access      IAM, Azure AD, Role-based Access, Secret Rotation Advanced     

Disaster Recovery     DR Drills, Geo-Redundancy, RTO/RPO       Advanced     

Audit & Compliance   SOC 2, ISO 27001, Risk Registers   Advanced     

Release Stage-Gate  Deployment approvals, Go/No-go criteria   Expert

Collaboration  Working with Product, Security, Dev teams Expert

Tools   Azure DevOps, Jira, ServiceNow, Salesforce (case mgmt Intermediate 

Leadership     People development, Shift planning, Mentoring    Expert

Shift details:

Required to work in shift:Yes

If Yes Shift Timing-

DISCLAIMER

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

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