About Kestra:

Kestra is a U.S.-based wealth management platform built to support independent financial professionals and the clients they serve. Together, we provide technology, investment platforms, operational and business services, compliance and reporting, and specialized expertise that help advisors focus on what matters most - building trusted relationships and helping clients achieve meaningful financial goals. As one of the fastest growing organizations in the wealth management space, Kestra is building its India Innovation Center in Bangalore to help shape how the organization operates and scales. Disclaimer: Associates at the Kestra India are employed by ANSR, which owns and operates the center. They provide technology and business services for Kestra.

Lead with Purpose. Partner with Impact:

As the Manager, DevOps & Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) within Kestra's Advisor Platform Architecture & Engineering organization, you will provide both technical and people leadership for a team responsible for building and operating reliable, scalable, secure, and highly available platforms that power the Advisor experience. You will lead engineers while remaining deeply engaged in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, observability, reliability, and incident management initiatives. Working closely with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Security, and Architecture teams, you will help shape technical direction, drive operational excellence, remove delivery bottlenecks, and improve platform resilience and developer productivity through modern DevOps and SRE practices. This role requires a leader who can effectively balance team development and strategic execution with hands-on involvement in solving complex technical challenges, guiding architectural decisions, and driving continuous modernization across the platform ecosystem.

Guided by Kestra's core values of Make It Happen, Serve, and One Team, you will foster a culture of ownership, engineering excellence, collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement while helping teams deliver resilient, high-quality solutions at scale.

What you’ll Do:

Lead and develop a high-performing team of DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers through coaching, mentoring, performance management, and career development.
Own the DevOps and SRE strategy, roadmap, and operational priorities for the Advisor Platform.
Drive platform reliability, availability, scalability, resiliency, and operational excellence across production environments.
Establish and track key reliability and operational metrics, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, availability, MTTR, deployment frequency, and service health indicators.
Lead the implementation and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, automation frameworks, and cloud-native engineering practices.
Champion automation initiatives that reduce operational toil and improve platform stability, deployment efficiency, and engineering productivity.
Ensure robust observability through monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and operational dashboards that provide actionable insights.
Lead major incident management activities, including stakeholder communications, incident command, root cause analysis, postmortems, and corrective action tracking.
Partner closely with Software Engineering teams to embed reliability, security, observability, and operational readiness throughout the software development lifecycle.
Collaborate with Infrastructure, Cloud, Security, Database, and Network teams to design, operate, and optimize highly available and secure platforms.
Drive capacity planning, performance engineering, scalability initiatives, and disaster recovery preparedness to support business growth.
Establish and continuously improve operational processes, including change management, release governance, production readiness reviews, problem management, and knowledge management.
Promote reliability-first engineering principles and operational ownership across Engineering and Technology teams.
Support cloud modernization and platform transformation initiatives while maintaining operational stability and governance.
Communicate platform health, service performance, operational risks, incident trends, and improvement initiatives to senior leadership through clear, data-driven reporting.
Ensure compliance with security, audit, regulatory, data protection, risk management, and operational governance requirements.
Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, innovation, and continuous improvement.

What You Bring:

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline. Engineering degree preferred.
8+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or related disciplines.
3+ years of experience leading DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, or Production Operations teams.
Strong understanding of DevOps and SRE principles, including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automation, observability, incident management, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Experience building and operating highly available, scalable, resilient enterprise applications and platforms.
Strong expertise with monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and observability tools.
Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code and automation technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent tools.
Experience with modern CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar technologies.
Proven track record of leading major incident response, problem management, and operational excellence initiatives.
Experience with disaster recovery, business continuity, change management, and release governance processes.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage high-severity production incidents.
Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Experience supporting financial services, wealth management, fintech, or other regulated industry platforms is preferred.
Experience leading cloud modernization, DevOps transformation, platform engineering, or enterprise SRE initiatives is preferred.
Familiarity with security, compliance, and governance frameworks such as SOC, SOX, PCI DSS, SOC 2, and ITIL is preferred.
Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or MBA with strong technical depth is a plus.

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