Hands-on Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

Role overview

Lead a four-person infrastructure team while remaining hands-on, splitting time roughly evenly between engineering and people leadership. The team is modernizing infrastructure by moving workloads to GCP and Kubernetes, improving reliability and security, and making platform services easier for development teams to use. The role includes a required transition period: begin as a senior engineer, start manager onboarding in the second month, and take over the team at about ten weeks.

Responsibilities

- Guide infrastructure engineers and support their growth through close oversight, regular feedback, and coaching. - Spend about half of your time on hands-on infrastructure development, prioritizing team leadership and support. - Lead migration of on-premise workloads to GKE and help modernize architecture while reducing operational burden. - Strengthen security, business continuity, and platform self-service for engineering teams. - Partner with engineering teams and managers to understand their needs, scope work, and set priorities. - Lead incident response and postmortems while balancing platform projects with operational support.

Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience. - At least 7 years in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, including 3 years at senior, staff, or principal level. - At least 3 years operating production Kubernetes workloads; GKE experience is preferred. - At least 3 years with a major cloud provider and infrastructure as code, with senior-level GCP knowledge across IAM, networking, KMS, GKE, Cloud SQL, and Secret Manager expected. - At least 2 years mentoring or leading, including 1 year as a formal team lead or technical lead. - Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines, using GitOps, leading incident response, and prioritizing work with engineering stakeholders.

Nice to have

- Experience guiding a significant architecture migration, operating consumer platforms at scale, or building in regulated environments. - Background with self-hosted observability tools, internal developer platforms, self-service tooling, or .NET/C# deployment environments.

Benefits and work setup

- Full-time, fully remote role for candidates in EMEA. The listed pay range is €82,000–€140,000, with the amount influenced by location and local market rates.