Software Engineering Manager
Flywire
Distributed Systems
Engineering Manager – Platform & Infrastructure
Prolific
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Visit company websiteJob Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
CloudKubernetes
About the role
- Lead with Impact: Leading, coaching, and empowering your teams to consistently deliver outstanding value to the wider engineering organization.
- Define and Execute Strategy: Help define and execute the platform, infrastructure, site reliability and service management vision and roadmap, aligning with the company's long-term business goals.
- Hands on Leadership: Actively participate in technical direction, design and execution as well as problem-solving to unblock and mentor teams, respond to incidents and be an escalation point for reliability of our systems. Drive Automation and Cloud Operations: Oversee cloud infrastructure and drive GitOps practices, such as infrastructure-as-code. Own cloud infrastructure and operations, ensuring platforms are monitored, available, scale appropriately, and cost-efficient.
- Ensure Operational Excellence: Establish good systems reliability engineering, DevSecOps, and service management practices.
- Enable Cloud Development: Provide the tools, guardrails and cloud infrastructure self-service capabilities for engineering teams to develop in the cloud.
- Improve Developer Experience: Closely collaborate with product engineering, ensuring that our internal tools and pipelines enable our engineers to work with greater efficiency and autonomy.
- Embed Security and Compliance: Partner with the product engineering teams to embed security best practices and tools into the software development and release process. Ensure that the platform maintains a good security posture.
- Own IT: Own the internal IT function and tech stack, ensuring our business applications, software, systems, and hardware support the company's growth and operational efficiency. You will also manage key tech supplier relationships.
Requirements
- Proven leadership experience in a senior infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering role, with a strong track record of building and leading high-performing teams.
- Deep expertise across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps and DevSecOps practices.
- A strategic mindset with the ability to define and execute a long-term technology roadmap.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- A passion for mentoring and developing team members, creating a positive and collaborative environment.
- Experienced in managing suppliers and negotiating costs, and expertise with cloud cost forecasting, monitoring and optimisation.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Flexible working hours
- Professional development opportunities
- Remote work options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
cloud platformsKubernetesDevOpsDevSecOpsinfrastructure-as-codesite reliability engineeringservice managementcloud cost forecastingmonitoringautomation
Soft skills
leadershipcoachingmentoringcommunicationstakeholder managementproblem-solvingcollaborationstrategic mindsetteam developmentpositive environment
