Job Summary

The Impact of a Sr Manager, Kubernetes Platform Engineering at Coupa: As the Senior Manager of the Kubernetes Platform, you will lead the platform engineering team responsible for the backbone of our up-to-date cloud infrastructure. You will drive the strategic vision for platform automation, resilience, and FinOps alignment across our large clusters. By fostering a culture of operational excellence and continuous optimization, you will empower your team to eliminate manual toil and provide a frictionless, highly performant platform for all of Coupas engineering teams

What You ll Do

- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of Platform and Kubernetes Engineers across global regions.
- Define and execute the strategic roadmap for the Coupa Container Platform, ensuring alignment with broad engineering and business objectives.
- Drive the adoption of automated continuous platform optimization tools (like ScaleOps and Karpenter) to eliminate human toil and maximize efficiency.
- Partner closely with FinOps, Finance, and DevOps leadership to establish budgets, forecast growth, and champion sustainable cost-avoidance strategies.
- Oversee the operational health, security,



and compliance of the enterprise Kubernetes infrastructure.
- Facilitate cross-team collaboration to ensure the platform meets the deployment, observability, and scaling needs of our developers.

What You Will Bring to Coupa

- Proven experience managing and scaling high-performing Platform, DevOps, or SRE engineering teams.
- Strong technical background in managing Kubernetes at an enterprise scale (EKS/GKE).
- Strategic understanding of intelligent resource automation, FinOps principles, and modern cloud-native cost management.
- Experience driving the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automated CI/CD practices at an organizational level.
- Demonstrated ability to partner with finance and product teams to translate technical metrics into business value.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and organizational skills.

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📌 Sr Manager, Cloud Platform Engineering (Pune)
🏢 Coupa
📍 Pune