Description
Tide is hiring a proven Engineering Manager to lead the Core Infrastructure team.
The Core Infrastructure team provides a containerised cloud environment based on EKS that is the foundation of Tide's Platform Engineering provision to product engineering teams.
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 such as DORA and SPACE, and drive measurable improvement.
The ideal candidate has:
- 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 AI tools like Claude and how to help engineers and customers use them efficiently
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience managing stakeholders across teams and functions
You will stand out if you have:
- Platform engineering experience abstracting Kubernetes complexity into a stable internal product
- Experience creating and maintaining Kubernetes operators
Our tech stack includes:
- Cloud: 100% containerised on AWS EKS
- Infrastructure as code: Terraform and Terragrunt
- Deployments: ArgoCD with GitOps
- Custom infrastructure: Helm and Crossplane
- Source control and CI/CD: GitHub and GitHub Actions
- Observability: Coralogix
- Product backend: Java, Python, and Go
- Client apps: Angular and Flutter
In return, you will receive:
- Gross annual salary ranging from €75,200 to €105,750
- Remote-first work arrangement
- 25 days of paid annual leave
- 3 paid days off for volunteering or L&D activities
- Private Health Insurance
- Mental Health Support Platform
- FitPass
- Family and friendly leave
- Personal L&D budget
- Share Options