Description
We're changing the way we do things at Marks & Spencer, putting innovation at the heart of our operations. As a Software Engineering Manager in our Platform team, you'll lead the development of our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) function. Your mission will be to streamline development for over 1000 engineers and 30+ applications, focusing on building reusable pipelines, tooling, and frameworks to enhance the developer experience.
You'll manage a team and contribute to the technical vision, ensuring engineering excellence and aligning with our technical strategy. Your responsibilities will include:
- Being accountable for engineering excellence within your team
- Cultivating self-management and accountability
- Leading alignment with the overarching technical strategy
- Acting as a platform owner with product thinking
- Collaborating with engineering leadership
- Line management of supporting staff and senior engineers
- Driving recruitment and retention within the team
- Acting as custodian of OKRs within your hub
- Supporting engineering communities to drive strategic alignment
As a previous polyglot hands-on senior software engineer, you should have excellent knowledge of SRE concepts, extensive background in software engineering, and experience building and leading teams of highly skilled senior software engineers.
Our tech stack includes:
- SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and reliability strategy
- Observability with metrics, logs, traces, and alerting
- Incident response, on-call operations, postmortems, and runbooks
- Cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, containers, and distributed systems
- CI/CD, progressive delivery, rollback, and release safety
- Automation, toil reduction, and self-healing systems
- Capacity planning, performance engineering, and cost awareness
- Security, access control, compliance, and operational governance
In return, you'll enjoy benefits such as:
- 20% colleague discount on M&S products and third-party brands
- Competitive holiday allowance
- Discretionary bonus schemes
- Strong pension and life assurance
- Tailored induction and training
- Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal
- Market-leading family policies
- 24/7 wellbeing support