Role : Engineering Manager – ACOS 

Reporting To: Senior Engineering Leadership 

Location: Pune (Full time)

Experience (in years): 12+ years 

Number of Vacancies: 1

Company Overview 

we offer structured onboarding, continuous learning, and flexible career paths—allowing you to grow as a technical architect, program manager, or domain expert in a collaborative and engaging work environment. 

Role Overview 

As an Engineering Manager – ACOS, you will act as a technical leader and hands-on contributor, working on ACOS, virtualization, and networking solutions for a market leader in Application Delivery Controller (ADC) technologies. 

This role is based in Pune and requires deep technical expertise combined with strategic thinking to drive cloud-native solutions, observability, and scalable architectures. You will guide a team of engineers while remaining actively involved in design, coding, testing, and production support. 

This is a hands-on individual contributor leadership role within a small, high-performing team. 

Role & Responsibilities 

• Serve as a technical expert within the ACOS team, providing strategic direction and hands-on leadership in designing and implementing cloud-native solutions 

• Manage and mentor a team of 12+ engineers specializing in C, Networking, and Linux 

• Architect and develop scalable, resilient, and high-performance cloud-native solutions aligned with business objectives and technical standards 

• Partner with product owners to translate high-level requirements into actionable technical stories 

• Drive innovation by evaluating and adopting new cloud technologies, tools, and best practices 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of solutions 

• Maintain a strong hands-on role in coding, debugging, and architectural decision-making 

• Proactively monitor production environments and ensure high availability and reliability 

• Troubleshoot, reproduce, and resolve complex operational and system-level issues 

• Provide day-to-day support for production, staging, and development environments in internal cloud setups 

• Foster a high-trust, high-performance engineering culture through mentorship and knowledge sharing 

Technical Skills Requirements 

• Expert-level C programming with experience on Linux, RTOS, or high-availability embedded operating systems 

• Strong GDB debugging skills 

• Proficiency in Python programming 

• In-depth understanding of networking products, OSI stack, L2/L3/L4, and load balancers 

• Experience with TCP/IP, UDP/IP, socket programming, and standard IP protocols such as ICMP 

• Solid knowledge of algorithms and data structures 

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, OCI 

• Strong understanding of virtualization (VMWare, KVM) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) 

• Ability to troubleshoot, isolate, and resolve system and networking issues efficiently 

• Strong technical leadership skills with the ability to influence without direct authority 

• Agile mindset with experience in Agile/Scrum development methodologies 

Nice-to-Have Skills 

• Advanced networking domain knowledge 

• Experience working with VMWare technology stack 

• Strong written and verbal communication skills 

• Cloud certifications (AWS / Azure / GCP / OCI) 

• Experience automating real-world production environments 

Educational / Professional Qualification Required 

• B.E. / B.Tech in Computer Science, IT, or equivalent 

• Minimum 10+ years of software development experience, with strong exposure to cloud computing, cloud infrastructure, and cloud-native applications 

Soft Skills / Competencies 

• Proven technical leadership and ownership mindset 

• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities 

• Strong collaboration skills with experience working in global teams 

• Ability to mentor, influence, and lead by example 

• High-performing team player with a proactive and growth-oriented mindset