Sr Manager, DevOps Engineering

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Date: May 4, 2026

Location: Hyderabad, IN, 500081

Company: McDonald's Corporation

About McDonald’s:

One of the world’s largest employers with locations in more than 100 countries, McDonald’s Corporation has corporate opportunities in Hyderabad. Our global offices serve as dynamic innovation and operations hubs, designed to expand McDonald's global talent base and in-house expertise. Our new office in Hyderabad will bring together knowledge across business, technology, analytics, and AI, accelerating our ability to deliver impactful solutions for the business and our customers across the globe.

Position Summary:

The role is responsible for leading DevOps/Platform initiatives ensuring operational excellence, reliability, scalability, and observability across cloud environments. This role combines technical leadership, strategic planning, and people management to drive engineering excellence and deliver secure, automated, and efficient solutions.

Primary Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership & Team Management:

  • Define DevOps vision, roadmap, and capability strategy aligned with business goals.
  • Build and manage high-performing global teams (DevOps engineers, SREs).
  • Mentor and develop talent; foster a culture of automation and continuous improvement.

CI/CD Governance & Automation:

  • Establish enterprise-wide CI/CD standards and best practices.
  • Oversee implementation of automated build, test, and deployment pipelines.
  • Ensure integration of quality gates and artifact management.

Infrastructure as Code & Cloud Strategy:

  • Drive adoption of IaC tools (Terraform) for consistent provisioning.
  • Align cloud infrastructure strategy with scalability and cost optimization goals.
  • Ensure compliance through policy-as-code and governance frameworks.

Observability & Reliability Engineering:

  • Define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for platform reliability.
  • Monitor incident trends and drive MTTR improvements.
  • Ensure proactive alerting and predictive analytics for system health.

Security & Compliance

Financial & Operational Governance

Stakeholder Engagement & Reporting

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in DevOps or Platform Engineering in GCP/AWS environments.

String Technical Expertise in -

  • CI/CD automation, Infrastructure Scripting for cloud services like Terraform.
  • Batch processing frameworks, Real time streaming, and orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Composer, Dataflow)
  • Infrastructure engineering, networking, and system integration
  • Proficiency in SQL and Python for troubleshooting, scripting, and platform automation
  • Demonstrated experience in designing and supporting platforms in cloud-native environments (GCP or AWS preferred).
  • Proven leadership in managing technical teams and DevOps/platform Engineering/support functions.
  • Excellent communication, cross-team collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.

McDonald’s is the world’s leading global foodservice retailer with over 40,000 locations in over 100 countries. Approximately 95% of McDonald’s restaurants worldwide are owned and operated by independent local business owners. At McDonald’s, we lead through our values centered on inclusivity, service, integrity, community, and family. Here is your chance to get in on something special as we grow our corporate team in India and allow you to grow your career.