DevOps Engineering Manager

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At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you’re trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That’s why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry.

Job Description:

What It Means to Be a Consultant at Crowe
Consulting is a dynamic business focused on solving problems for our clients and serving our core markets through innovative solutions. As technology and AI continue to reshape the consulting landscape, we are looking for individuals who are curious, adaptable, and eager to learn. At Crowe, consultants are expected to build both technical and transferable skills, think critically, and use technology to solve real business problems. In this role, you will continuously learn, collaborate across teams, and explore how tools, including emerging AI capabilities, can improve efficiency, insights, and client outcomes.

In management at Crowe, you play a pivotal role in leading teams, guiding project execution, and deepening client relationships. You are expected to contribute to account planning, identify opportunities to add value, and ensure high-quality delivery. As your responsibilities expand, you take on broader account ownership, balancing project leadership with growing involvement in client strategy and solution development.

Success in this role comes from a growth mindset, strong communication skills, advanced critical thinking, and the ability to navigate new challenges with confidence.

Role Summary

The Manager, DevOps Engineering is the lead hands-on engineer responsible for the India-based DevOps capability supporting enterprise applications, integrations, data platforms, and cloud infrastructure. The role combines technical leadership with direct engineering accountability across Azure infrastructure, networking, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, security, environment management, observability, and production readiness.
 

This is not a process-focused or administrative management role. The manager is expected to personally design, build, review, and troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment pipelines, network configurations, access controls, monitoring, and automation. The role will also establish engineering standards, mentor DevOps engineers, review technical work, and serve as the escalation point for complex infrastructure and deployment issues.
 

The manager will work closely with enterprise architects, application teams, integration engineers, data engineers, networking, security, and delivery leadership to ensure environments and deployment processes are secure, repeatable, scalable, and operationally supportable. The role is accountable for improving delivery discipline, reducing manual processes, resolving environment bottlenecks, and ensuring infrastructure and releases are ready for production.
 

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor DevOps engineers while remaining hands-on in delivery.

• Design and support Azure infrastructure, networking, identity, monitoring, and platform services.

• Manage virtual networks, subnets, private endpoints, DNS, routing, firewalls, and IP capacity.

• Build and maintain reusable Infrastructure as Code using Bicep or Terraform.

• Design and support Azure DevOps YAML pipelines and reusable deployment templates.

• Automate environment provisioning, configuration, testing, release, rollback, and recovery.

• Implement Microsoft Entra ID, managed identities, service principals, RBAC, Key Vault, and least-privilege controls.

• Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards, and operational runbooks.

• Review infrastructure code, pipeline code, scripts, and security changes.

• Lead troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, incident response, and production-readiness reviews.

• Enforce DevOps, security, release, and operational engineering standards.

• Partner with architecture, application, integration, data, networking, and security teams.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of DevOps, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or related experience.

• 4+ years of hands-on Microsoft Azure engineering experience.

• 2+ years in a lead engineer or technical management role.

• Strong Azure networking and IP-address planning experience.

• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Bicep, Terraform, or both.

• Strong Azure DevOps and YAML pipeline experience.

• Experience with Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, managed identities, service principals, and Key Vault.

• Experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights.

• Strong scripting skills using PowerShell, Azure CLI, Bash, or Python.

• Demonstrated ability to lead engineers while remaining technically hands-on.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Azure Functions, API Management, Service Bus, Event Grid, Event Hubs, and microservices.

• Experience with D365 Finance and Operations, Power Platform, or Dataverse.

• Experience with Azure Policy, security scanning, disaster recovery, and cost optimization.

• Experience with containers, AKS, or site reliability engineering practices.

We expect the candidate to uphold Crowe’s values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship. These values define who we are. We expect all of our people to act ethically and with integrity at all times.

Our Benefits:
At Crowe, we know that great people are what makes a great firm. We value our people and offer employees a comprehensive benefits package. Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you!

How You Can Grow:
We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations. Learn more about where talent can prosper!

More about Crowe:

Crowe Capability Center – India, operating under the legal entity C3 India Delivery Centre LLP (formerly known as Crowe Horwath IT Services LLP) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Crowe LLP (U.S.A.), a public accounting, consulting and technology firm with offices around the world. Crowe LLP is an independent member firm of Crowe Global, one of the largest global accounting networks in the world. The network consists of more than 200 independent accounting and advisory firms in more than 130 countries around the world.

Crowe does not accept unsolicited candidates, referrals or resumes from any staffing agency, recruiting service, sourcing entity or any other third-party paid service at any time. Any referrals, resumes or candidates submitted to Crowe, or any employee or owner of Crowe without a pre-existing agreement signed by both parties covering the submission will be considered the property of Crowe, and free of charge.

We are committed to a merit-based hiring process, evaluating all candidates consistently using objective, job-related criteria such as relevant experience, demonstrated skills, measurable impact, and alignment with the role’s responsibilities, and making employment decisions in a fair and inclusive manner free from discrimination.