# Engineering Manager, Core Infrastructure

**Company**: Tide
**Location**: Bulgaria
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: €72,000 to €101,250
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/tide/jobs/8034380003?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_ebb5d2f7-c61

## 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.

**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 such as DORA and SPACE, and drive measurable improvement.

**What We're Looking For:** You are an engineering leader who stays technically hands-on, with 10+ years of experience in distributed computing, 3+ years in engineering leadership roles, and a degree in Computer Science or a related field.

**Required Skills:**

- 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 such as Claude.

- 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.

- Deployments: ArgoCD with a GitOps approach.

- 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.

**What You'll Get In Return:**

- Gross annual salary: €72,000 to €101,250.

- 25 days paid annual leave.

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

- Extended maternity and paternity leave.

- Personal L&D budget: 500 EUR per year.

- Additional health & dental insurance.

- Mental wellbeing platform.

- Fully covered Multisports card.

- Food vouchers.

- Snacks, light food, drinks in the office.

- WFH equipment allowance.

- Flexible working from home.

- Sabbatical Leave.

- Share options.

## Skills

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

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

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