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Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a CI/CD and developer platform team responsible for building, maintaining, and evolving large-scale internal engineering systems.

This role combines people leadership, technical direction, and operational ownership of a critical platform used by hundreds (or thousands) of engineers. You will drive improvements in developer productivity, deployment reliability, and operational efficiency while ensuring the platform remains stable, scalable, and cost-effective.

This is not a traditional product management role—however, you are expected to demonstrate a platform mindset, including understanding internal user needs, prioritizing engineering investments, and delivering measurable improvements to developer experience.

What You Will Own

1. Team Leadership & People Management

- Manage, mentor, and grow a team of engineers (typically 5–10 members)
- Drive hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development
- Foster a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, quality, and continuous improvement
- Support engineers in technical growth and leadership progression

1. CI/CD Platform Ownership

- Own the end-to-end lifecycle of CI/CD systems (build, test, deploy pipelines)
- Ensure platform reliability, scalability, and usability for internal engineering teams
- Maintain high availability of production services supporting deployment workflows
- Define and enforce best practices for software delivery and release processes

1. Dev Ops & Platform Engineering Strategy

- Drive technical direction across:
- CI/CD tooling (e.g., Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI, ArgoCD)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, etc.)
- Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Improve deployment frequency, lead time,



and failure recovery metrics
- Identify and eliminate bottlenecks in the software delivery lifecycle

1. Reliability, Operations & Incident Management

- Ensure robust operational practices:
- Monitoring, alerting, and observability
- Incident response and postmortem processes
- Improve platform stability and reduce operational overhead through automation
- Champion SRE principles such as error budgets and reliability engineering

1. Stakeholder Collaboration (Platform Mindset)

- Work closely with internal engineering teams to understand platform pain points
- Prioritize roadmap initiatives based on engineering impact and efficiency gains
- Communicate trade-offs, risks, and progress clearly to stakeholders
- Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term platform scalability

1. Cost & Efficiency Optimization

- Manage infrastructure costs related to CI/CD workloads
- Drive initiatives to improve compute utilization and reduce waste
- Evaluate and adopt tools that improve efficiency without increasing complexity

Required Experience

- 5+ years in software engineering / platform / Dev Ops roles
- 2+ years of engineering management experience, including:
- Team leadership
- Performance management
- Hiring and mentoring
- Hands-on experience with:
- CI/CD systems (Jenkins, Git Lab CI, Git Hub Actions, etc.)
- Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Kubernetes and containerized environments
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent)
- Strong experience in:
- Production operations and incident management
- Building and maintaining internal platforms or developer tooling
- Proven ability to improve system reliability, scalability, and developer productivity
- Experience working in cross-functional environments with multiple stakeholders
- Fluent English communication skills

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