Manager, Platform Engineering

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About Vista Equity Partners Vista Equity Partners is a leading global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data, and technology-enabled businesses. With over $100B in assets under management and a portfolio of 90+ software product companies worldwide, Vista accelerates growth through operational excellence, shared expertise, and long-term partnership. In India, Vista’s presence continues to expand with 45+ portfolio companies employing more than 17,000 professionals across technology, product, customer success, and operations — reinforcing India’s strategic role as a hub of innovation and talent within the Vista ecosystem. Through its Agentic AI Factory, Vista is embedding Generative AI across its global portfolio — enabling companies to integrate intelligent, responsible AI into products, operations, and decision-making. This initiative is strengthened through portfolio-wide learning programs, leadership workshops, and AI hackathons that foster innovation, build fluency, and accelerate practical AI adoption across teams. About Amtech Amtech is a leading provider of enterprise software solutions for the packaging, printing, and manufacturing industries. Our integrated systems streamline order management, production planning, scheduling, inventory, and business analytics — empowering customers to drive efficiency, reduce costs, and improve operational performance. With a strong commitment to innovation and customer success, Amtech delivers reliable technology backed by deep industry expertise. With Vista’s investment and strategic guidance, we combine the agility of a growing technology organization with the scale, stability, and career mobility of a global software ecosystem. Our Employee Value Proposition At Amtech, our people are our greatest differentiator. We create an environment where you can: Purpose Shape the future of manufacturing and supply chain operations by delivering mission-critical enterprise software used by industry-leading organizations. Growth Access continuous learning, leadership development, and cross-portfolio opportunities through Vista’s global network — accelerating both technical and managerial career paths. Culture Work in a collaborative, transparent, and people-first environment where values, accountability, and integrity guide every decision. Innovation Engage with cutting-edge technologies, including AI-driven automation, and contribute to modernizing financial systems and operational processes across the business. Role Description Amtech is executing an all-in AWS strategy: migrating our flagship Encore ERP to a multi-account, account-per-customer AWS architecture, operating LabelTraxx as a multi-tenant SaaS platform, and retiring legacy private-cloud infrastructure over time. Platform Engineering owns the landing zone, infrastructure as code, and the golden-path tooling that product teams build on, and the reliability of everything that runs on it. The Manager, Platform Engineering (India) leads the India Cloud and Platform SRE teams: the engineers who build the AWS platform and the engineers who keep it running. You own the people, the delivery, and the day-to-day technical leadership of that group under the guidance of the VP, working alongside the Cloud Architect, who owns platform architecture. The scope spans two engineering disciplines and a direct interface to IT/IS/PE leadership and vendors. This is a player-coach role by design: leadership first, hands-on second. Leadership means hiring and building the team, developing engineers, running the operating cadence, and representing Platform Engineering within IT/IS/PE and to partner functions. Hands-on means staying close enough to the code and the incidents to make good calls, review the changes that matter most, and lead incident response in India hours. As the team matures, the balance shifts further toward leadership without leaving the technical work behind. You will work daily with the U.S.-based Senior Manager who leads Customer SRE, the Senior SRE who owns the reliability standards both SRE teams operate on, the Sr. Director of Information Security, and the VP. This role is the first people-leadership position in Platform Engineering India. SCOPE & AUTHORITY Leads hiring for the India Cloud and Platform SRE teams in partnership with Talent Acquisition; offers follow Amtech's approval process. The role leads interviews and makes the hiring recommendation for each open India position. Owns performance, leveling, and development decisions for direct reports within Amtech's leveling framework. Sets sprint priorities and capacity allocation for the India teams within the Platform Engineering roadmap. Holds incident command for platform incidents in India hours. Runs the architecture review and holds the team to its outcomes; the Cloud Architect approves architecture decisions, and decisions affecting security controls require Information Security sign-off. Leads technical evaluation of platform vendors and tooling with the Cloud Architect; recommends spend and contract changes to the VP, who holds approval. Participates in the IT/IS/PE leadership team as needed; Platform Engineering's representative in India site leadership forums. JOB DESCRIPTION People Leadership Lead, hire, and develop the India Cloud and Platform SRE teams, a team that is growing through 2027 with hosted customer count and product engineering headcount and that this role hires into from day one. Own performance management, career development, and leveling under Amtech's leveling framework; grow senior engineers into technical leads and future managers. Set the operating cadence for the India teams: sprint ceremonies, on-call rotations, triage duty, and the follow-the-sun handoff with the U.S. Build a team culture of ownership, blameless postmortems, and written decision-making that holds across time zones. Give engineers credit publicly and feedback privately. Architecture & Technical Strategy Deliver