Engineering Manager - Infrastructure Services

we're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Adyen Cloud Services (ACS) Team within the Platform Engineering organization in Bengaluru. This team owns and operates Adyens core container orchestration and traffic management infrastructure, the foundation that keeps our global payment platform running. In this role, you will drive technical strategy, build a high-performing team, and shape the evolution of our platform as Adyen continues to scale globally. What you'll do Lead and grow a high-performing infrastructure team: Manage platform and infrastructure engineers across all levels, owning day-to-day operations, planning, and hiring in Bengaluru and in coordination with other tech hubs. Bring structure and process to execution: Introduce and refine operational processes that improve incident response, change management, and predictable delivery for mission-critical infrastructure. Foster a culture of technical excellence: Drive globally optimized technical decisions with a focus on automation, partnering with other leads to evolve container orchestration, traffic management, and infrastructure tooling. Scale for massive growth: Guide the team through platform modernization, multi-region resilience, and architectural evolution while owning the operational realities of bare-metal infrastructure and datacenter dependencies. Integrate platform best practices: Ensure reliability, security, and observability are embedded into how teams consume infrastructure offering a "golden path" for engineers to deploy and operate services. Who You Are Experienced engineering leader: Proven track record managing and growing high-performing teams in platform, infrastructure, or SRE domains. 8+ years in engineering, with 3+ years in leadership roles. Infrastructure domain expertise: Deep understanding of container orchestration (Kubernetes), traffic management (load balancers, DNS), and on-prem/bare-metal operations. Hands-on experience running large-scale, highly available production infrastructure. Technical leader with a strong engineering perspective: You shape technical direction, improve reliability and performance, and ensure solutions are scalable and maintainable with a focus on automation. Hands-on when needed: While this is a management role, you're comfortable in technical discussions to guide your team and ensure sound decisions, and can partner across infrastructure and development teams to diagnose and resolve issues when needed. Nice to have: Prior experience in FinTech or regulated industries where reliability and security are paramount. Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, GitOps, and building automation for provisioning and lifecycle management.