Envato

Platform Engineering Manager

Envato

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇦🇺 Australia

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Lead and guide the Infrastructure Platform and SRE teams, fostering a positive, collaborative, and high-performance culture.
  • Drive delivery by organising team work, clarifying expectations, setting clear goals, and removing roadblocks for mid-to-large scale projects.
  • Own, evolve, and take responsibility for our production systems, including their availability, security, and incident management.
  • Promote a “you build it, you run it” approach and champion the internal developer platform, focusing on self-service and developer experience.
  • Partner with Architects and Lead Engineers to align system architecture with the larger Envato technical ecosystem.
  • Focus on sustainable solution-building, thinking in terms of reusable, scalable platforms and products—not just short-term fixes.
  • Coach, mentor, and support your direct reports in their work and career development through regular 1:1s and performance reviews.
  • Improve delivery processes and roadmaps to constantly increase delivery predictability.
  • Manage commercial aspects like forecasting, budgets, and vendor relationships with the Senior Manager/Engineering Director.

Requirements

  • You have previous people management, team leadership, and mentoring experience with Platform, Infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE teams.
  • You're a master of excellent communication and stakeholder management, able to build relationships with technical and non-technical teams.
  • You thrive in a team-oriented, collaborative environment, ideally with experience using Agile processes.
  • You’re highly self-motivated and directed, demonstrating integrity and ethical behaviour in all interactions.
  • You have a proven ability to empower and support teams to embrace change and align resources effectively with shifting priorities.
  • You can proactively identify and address challenges, making informed decisions while balancing increased output with maintaining quality.
Benefits
  • Flexible Working: remote-first with flexibility for you to manage work and life as you need.
  • Work from Anywhere: apply to work in another location for up to 3 months per calendar year.
  • Connection Budget: an annual budget to connect with the team IRL where and when possible.
  • Learning Budget: study leave and an annual budget for you to put towards your learning and development.
  • Home Office Allowance: a contribution towards your set-up and a monthly allowance to support work from home costs.
  • Wellbeing: access to a holistic assistance program that provides support in many areas of life and health.
  • Volunteer Leave: 2 days per calendar year to volunteer and give back to the community.
  • Parental Leave:20 weeks paid primary carer leave, and 6 weeks paid secondary carers leave.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
people managementteam leadershipmentoringincident managementsystem architectureAgile processesdelivery processesforecastingbudget managementvendor management
Soft skills
communicationstakeholder managementcollaborationself-motivationintegrityethical behaviourempowermentsupportproactive problem-solvingdecision-making