Leads an SRE Automation Engineering team while remaining hands-on in platform reliability, automation, incident response, and infrastructure architecture. The role establishes SRE practices including SLOs, error budgets, toil reduction, and blameless postmortems; develops Rundeck and Airflow workflows; governs Terraform, ArgoCD, Kubernetes, and AWS environments; and drives high availability, security, cost optimization, and capacity planning. The manager also handles mentoring, performance management, Jira prioritization, stakeholder collaboration, and participation in 24/7 on-call rotations.