Engineering Team Manager (Hybrid Infrastructure & OT)

Quick Facts

• Role: Engineering Team Manager for Hybrid Infrastructure & OT

• Team: International team of ~13 engineers (majority based in Brno)

• Focus: Hybrid infrastructure, backup & resilience, Operational Technology (OT)

Description

Lead, coach, and grow the engineering team providing business-critical infrastructure services across 50+ countries. You will drive modernization toward Infrastructure as Code, automation, reusable version-controlled engineering, and practical AI capabilities—while ensuring stable, secure operations and delivery commitments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the team: coaching, career development, performance management, hiring, and planning future skill needs

• Build engineering skills and evolve toward modern practices (Infrastructure as Code, automation, AI-native workflows)

• Adopt practical AI capabilities to improve efficiency, problem-solving, knowledge management, and reduce manual operations

• Allocate capacity across 3rd level operations, including 24/7 on-call rotation, delivery, security, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement

• Align priorities and realistic delivery commitments with Product Owners, technical leads, and delivery teams

• Manage operational and delivery stability, transparency of conflicts, and escalation or reallocation of resources as needed

• Manage personnel costs, external engineering contracts, team reporting/KPIs, and compliance with security and operational standards

Requirements

• Proven people leadership within infrastructure, platform, data-centre, or OT engineering

• Ability to lead senior technical specialists without being the day-to-day solution owner

• Experience developing engineering capabilities and supporting transitions to Infrastructure as Code, automation, and AI-native ways of working

• Experience balancing operational stability, delivery, security, lifecycle work, technical debt, and continuous improvement within finite capacity

• Strong understanding of infrastructure operations, service levels, incident/problem management, and risk-based decision-making

• Understanding of production and OT environments, including change, risk, availability, and operational differences vs enterprise IT

• Confident stakeholder management across Product Owners, architects, security, finance, vendors, and senior management

• Experience with budgets, external resources, contracts, and performance data

• Professional English

Benefits

• Hybrid work environment

• 7.5-hour workday and 5 weeks of vacation

• Employee career track with regular growth talks

• Extensive training (technical, soft skills, language courses)

• Coaching and mentoring

• 4 sick days and 3 days off for volunteering activities

• Daily meal contribution

• Benefit card for sport, education, wellness, health and culture

• Pension insurance

• Mobile phone with company tariff

• Reserved company parking and lockers (car, motorbike, bike)

• Relax area and terrace