Engineering Manager (Infrastructure Platform)

Engineering Manager (Infrastructure Platform) Department: The Platform Employment Type: Full Time Location: Cyprus

Description We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and develop a team of infrastructure engineers responsible for critical production systems. This role combines people management with strong technical expertise, requiring a solid infrastructure background and deep knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes, distributed systems, networking, and infrastructure automation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and develop a team of infrastructure engineers responsible for critical production systems

• Own team execution, delivery, and day-to-day prioritization in alignment with infrastructure strategy and architectural direction

• Run the shared goals and collaborate with the Infrastructure Security, and other platform teams

• Translate infrastructure priorities into clear team plans, milestones for both infrastructure and product teams

• Work with Staff and Senior engineers to ensure technical solutions are delivered effectively and aligned with established architectural principles

• Ensure the reliability, availability, and operational readiness of systems owned by the team

• Own the team’s operational practices, incident response, postmortems, and completion of follow-up actions

• Set clear expectations, run regular 1:1s, provide actionable feedback, and support engineers through performance reviews and Individual Development Plans

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 7+ years of experience in software, infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering, including 2+ years in an engineering management role within a Platform cluster

• Proven experience leading and developing engineering teams responsible for production infrastructure or platform systems

• Strong infrastructure engineering background, with sufficient technical depth to review architecture, challenge decisions, and work effectively with Staff and Senior engineers

• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, especially AWS, Kubernetes, distributed systems, networking, and infrastructure automation

• Experience operating highly available, business-critical systems, including incident management, on-call, postmortems, capacity planning, and operational excellence

• Proven ability to set priorities, build execution plans, and deliver complex engineering initiatives while balancing reliability, technical debt, operational work, and long-term investments

• Ability to delegate technical ownership and enable senior engineers to lead major technical initiatives

• Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to align teams, manage dependencies, and resolve organizational, process, and technical bottlenecks

• Professional working proficiency in English

• Experience operating infrastructure across multiple regions, data centers, or hybrid cloud environments

• Experience managing teams with significant networking or distributed infrastructure responsibilities

• Experience working in organizations where infrastructure teams provide internal platforms and services to a large number of engineering teams

Why join us

• Help us challenge injustice by creating fair choices for millions of people across 48 countries.

• Develop your professional skills with access to mentoring, career consulting, and learning programs

• Collaborate with teams around the world and gain international experience through our Global Talent Exchange Program

• Engage in company-wide challenges, awards, sports activities, employee-led social impact and volunteering projects

• Work alongside people who take initiative, speak openly, and challenge themselves to grow

• Improve your language skills through co-financed courses and internal speaking clubs

• Annual salary from 90 700 EUR gross

Final benefits may vary depending on the location.