Technical Program Manager - Telecom Infrastructure.

Program Manager (Technical) – Telecom Platform Innovation, Infrastructure & AI Role Overview We are seeking a technically strong Program Manager to lead Telecom Platform initiatives with a focus on infrastructure reliability, build & release excellence, and automation-driven operations, while enabling AI-led innovation. This role combines program leadership with hands-on technical depth, ensuring scalable, resilient, and efficient telecom systems. The individual will drive execution across platform, infrastructure, and DevOps functions, while incubating AI capabilities as a strategic initiative.

Key Responsibilities Program Leadership - Lead end-to-end delivery of telecom platform initiatives (messaging, VoIP, real-time services, API platforms).

• Manage cross-functional teams across engineering, network, infrastructure, DevOps, and operations.
• Drive platform and infrastructure modernization aligned with cloud-native architectures.
• Ensure adherence to SLA, latency, scalability, and high-availability standards. Technical, Infrastructure, Build & Automation - Oversee platform infrastructure support ensuring high availability, reliability, and performance.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and network teams to manage hybrid environments (on-prem and cloud).
• Drive build and release management, ensuring consistent and high-quality deployments.
• Design and enhance CI/CD pipelines for efficient and reliable software delivery.
• Lead adoption of containerized and orchestrated environments (Kubernetes).
• Develop and promote automation using Python scripting across deployment and operational workflows.
• Strengthen monitoring and observability frameworks, leveraging tools such as Zabbix.
• Implement SRE practices including monitoring, alerting, incident response, and root cause analysis.
• Ensure robust environment configuration, version control, and dependency management.
• Drive continuous improvement in deployment velocity, system stability, and operational efficiency. AI Enablement (Strategic Initiative) - Identify and incubate AI use cases in platform operations (predictive monitoring, anomaly detection, intelligent alerting).
• Support development and scaling of AI solutions in collaboration with data and architecture teams.

Capability

Development - Mentor teams on modern platform engineering, automation, and infrastructure-aware design.

• Foster a culture of innovation, experimentation, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications, or related discipline.

• 8–12 years of experience of managing a team of 50+ engineers in telecom software platforms or communication systems.
• Proven experience managing technology programs involving platform and infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of real-time systems and distributed architectures.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud environments.
• Proficiency in Python scripting for automation.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Zabbix (or similar).
• Exposure to AI/ML applications in enterprise or telecom environments is a plus.

Leadership

Attributes - Innovation-driven with strong execution discipline.

• Technically credible across platform and infrastructure layers.
• Emerging leader with strong cross-functional influence.
• Effective communicator with strong stakeholder management skills.