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Job Description:

We are looking for an engineering manager to help us scale, improve organisational transparency, provide career development, mentorship, and honest feedback for our smart and talented engineers. Using your varying technical backgrounds and interests, you will drive and provide general technical direction and oversight. You will keep teams efficient and executing on the right goals. We build teams that are inclusive, helpful, and have a strong sense of ownership for the things they build.

Job Responsibility:

Lead the strategy, architecture, and execution of our core platform technologies
Extend and improve engineering best practices across the organisation
Maintain and improve a collaborative environment, acting as a key bridge between application development teams and the platform team
Motivate and instil a strong sense of ownership in your team for the end-to-end lifecycle, stability, scalability, and performance of our core platform services
Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members
Ensures that the team delivers high quality products and solutions by following the best practices
Build and scale teams that are collaborative, inclusive, and respectful of each other
Provide continuous, actionable feedback, address underperformance proactively, and recognise the individual strengths and contributions of your team members
Work closely with engineers and collaborate with key stakeholders to define, maintain a prioritised backlog, and establish clear short-term and long-term goals for the platform roadmap
Own your team’s deliverables and ensure the continuous delivery of scalable, highly-available, and cost-efficient platform services and infrastructure
Work closely with the recruiting team to hire high potential candidates

Requirements:

Minimum 5 years of hands-on technical experience in cloud-native environments, specifically with distributed systems and platform development
Minimum 2 years of experience in directly leading and managing platform, DevOps, or SRE teams
Expertise in designing, building, refactoring, and operating distributed systems and scalable cloud infrastructure at scale
Expertise in event-driven architecture and various Messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub)
Strong knowledge of both relational (SQL) and NoSQL database technologies and their operational considerations in cloud environments
Extensive hands-on experience and deep understanding of core AWS services (e.g., EC2, EKS, Lambda, SQS, Security Groups, IAM, Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail)
Proven expertise with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
Strong experience with containerisation technologies (Docker) and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes), including Helm and related ecosystem tools
Extensive experience with modern monitoring, logging, and observability platforms (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Jaeger/OpenTelemetry)
Strong familiarity with DevSecOps practices and the implementation of automated security tooling throughout the CI/CD pipeline (e.g., SAST, DAST, secret management, vulnerability scanning)
Practical knowledge and experience with various testing methodologies (Unit, Integration, Feature, Mocking) as applied to infrastructure components and platform services
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Fluency in English is required

Nice to have:

Expert knowledge of various architectural patterns (PaaS/SaaS, SOA, Microservices, Event-Driven), advanced cloud networking, and cloud security best practices within the AWS ecosystem
Proven track record of actively improving developer experience (DX) by designing and implementing self-service tooling, internal developer platforms (IDP), and comprehensive automation
Prior work experience in highly regulated industries or environments with extremely high demands for uptime, resilience, and data integrity (e.g., Fintech, Telecommunications, Gaming)
Experience with budgetary management and cost optimisation for cloud infrastructure
Contributions to open-source projects or active participation in relevant technical communities
Experience with incident management, post-mortems, and root cause analysis in a production environment
Experience driving adoption of new technologies and practices across multiple engineering teams
Knowledge of eSIM and GSMA related technologies and services

What we offer:

Health Insurance
work-from-anywhere stipend
annual wellness & learning credits
annual all-expenses-paid company retreat in a gorgeous destination

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 05, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Remote work

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