Engineering Manager (Core Infrastructure)

August 8

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501 - 1000

Description

• You will be responsible for coaching and leading a team of 8 core infrastructure engineers from a diverse range of work backgrounds, including cloud infrastructure specialists, SRE and software-orientated engineers. • The role is focused on people, managing a host of stakeholders across the organisation, understanding people’s needs and ensuring the team have everything, both for work and personal development. • The team mainly consists of senior, highly experienced and skilled engineers who work well together; this role is to ensure they are working on the most important business problem suited to them at any one time and executing on delivery. • You’ll enjoy the three pillars of focus; FinOps, Developer Experience and Software Maturity.

Requirements

• You have demonstrable experience of 5 years in leading and influencing teams and organisations. You are well versed in coaching and performance management, both taking engineers through promotion, as well as having difficult conversations to ensure high standards are met. • You have strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with an ability to communicate complex technical topics to non-technical stakeholders. • You appreciate simplicity over complexity and understand when to navigate between both. • You have a strong aptitude for understanding and attributing AWS and other cloud costs to specific teams and services. • You will have strong experience and knowledge of observability -- both in terms of best practices, implementations and experiences with observability vendors. • Previous experience working on an SRE, Platform or DevOps team -- experience building infrastructure component “vending machines” is a major plus. • Previous hands-on experience with AWS is essential, along with strong experience in designing and implementing distributed, cloud-native systems aligned to the AWS Well-Architected Framework. • You will come from a strong software engineering background and are familiar with at least one backend language.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays • Private health and dental • Gym on site in London – or membership in regional offices • Up to 7.5% pension contribution by the company • Free breakfast and afternoon snacks • Discretionary annual bonus up to 10% of base salary • Birthday day off, move house day off • Training and development • Referral bonus up to £5K