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.