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