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
