Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

Quick Facts

• Role: Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

• Work model: 100% remote (EMEA)

• Pay range: €82,000–€140,000 (based on factors including location)

Description

You will lead an infrastructure team building and operating clusters, pipelines, databases, edge, and observability that other engineering teams depend on. The role focuses on modernization: moving everything toward GCP and Kubernetes, migrating on-prem workloads to GKE, strengthening security and business continuity, and progressing toward platform self-service. The manager is expected to balance ~50% people management with hands-on development.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate infrastructure (clusters, pipelines, databases, edge, observability)

• Partner with other engineering managers and product development leadership to scope and prioritize platform work

• Set the quality bar and lead by example

• Lead, mentor, and work alongside the team, improving code quality and infrastructure-as-code practices

• Run trainings, set SMART goals, conduct performance reviews, and provide recurring individual feedback

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

• 2+ years mentoring/leadership, including 1+ year leading a team (formally or as a tech lead)

• 7+ years DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering

• 3+ years running production Kubernetes workloads (GKE preferred)

• 3+ years with a major cloud provider and Infrastructure as Code (GCP primary)

• Senior-level GCP knowledge: IAM, networking, KMS, GKE, CloudSQL, Secret Manager

• 3+ years at Senior/Staff/Principal Engineer level

• CI/CD pipeline design and operations experience

• GitOps experience with FluxCD or ArgoCD

• Experience scoping/prioritizing with engineering teams and other managers

• Incident response leadership, including running postmortems

Benefits

• Competitive compensation within the stated pay range (€82,000–€140,000)

• 100% remote role in the EMEA region

• Supportive feedback culture and focus on continuous improvement