# Engineering Manager, Core Infrastructure

**Company**: Tide
**Location**: Lithuania
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 7,133€ to 10,033€
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/tide/jobs/8036679003?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

Tide is hiring a proven Engineering Manager to lead the Core Infrastructure team. The team provides a containerised cloud environment based on EKS for product engineering teams.

**About the Role:** As the successful candidate, you will:

- Lead: Hire, coach, and set clear goals for a team of engineers.

- Plan: Develop a roadmap for architecture, upgrades, autoscaling, and capacity for infrastructure, databases, and Kubernetes clusters.

- Protect: Ensure platforms meet targets for availability and security.

- Empower: Reduce the time product engineers need to deploy and run services on the platform.

- Control cost: Help product engineering teams make cost-efficient choices for services running on the platform.

- Collaborate: Share team context and build cross-team relationships.

- Balance priorities: Weigh technical decisions against team and company goals.

- Measure: Track team productivity with metrics like DORA and SPACE, and drive measurable improvement.

**What We're Looking For:** You are an engineering leader who stays technically hands-on. You have:

- 10+ years of experience in distributed computing

- 3+ years in engineering leadership roles

- A degree in Computer Science or a related field

- Detailed knowledge of AWS, GCP, or both, in a regulated environment with security guardrails

- Experience running Kubernetes in production with GitOps (ArgoCD preferred)

- Understanding of using AI tools like Claude, and helping engineers and customers use them efficiently

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Experience managing stakeholders across teams and functions

**Tech Stack:**

- Cloud: 100% containerised on AWS EKS

- Infrastructure as code: Terraform and Terragrunt manage all platform infrastructure

- Deployments: ArgoCD with a GitOps approach

- Custom infrastructure: Helm and Crossplane manage databases, S3 buckets, and other resources

- Source control and CI/CD: GitHub and GitHub Actions

- Observability: Coralogix

- Product backend: Java, Python, and Go

- Client apps: Angular and Flutter

**Benefits:**

- Gross monthly salary: 7,133€ to 10,033€

- Private Health Insurance

- 25 days paid annual leave

- 3 paid days off for volunteering or L&D activities

- Parental Leave days

- Family-Friendly Leave

- Personal L&D budget: 500 EUR per year

- Mental wellbeing platform Plumm

- WFH equipment allowance

- Sabbatical Leave

- Share options

- Team Events

## Skills

### Required
- distributed computing
- engineering leadership
- Computer Science
- AWS
- GCP
- Kubernetes
- GitOps
- ArgoCD
- AI tools

### Nice to have
- platform engineering
- Kubernetes operators

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