Engineering Manager - Runtime Platform

Engineering Manager leading the Cloud Foundations team within Platform Engineering. You will have end-to-end ownership of the team's scope spanning strategy, execution, and organizational design, ensuring cloud account baselines, container orchestration, networking, and secret management scale safely, efficiently, and autonomously.

What you'll do

• Drive Platform Vision and Strategy: Define and execute the long-term roadmap for the Cloud Foundations segment, shifting fundamental cloud capabilities into self-service, developer-friendly products.
• Empower Engineering Teams: Enable development teams to autonomously provision infrastructure, manage secrets and deploy workloads securely through well-defined APIs, robust tooling, and automated guardrails.
• Own Core Cloud Foundations: Oversee a critical portfolio of core platform capabilities, including AWS cloud management (Account Vending Machine, Access Management, Organisation level setup & Cloud Baseline), Infrastructure as Code frameworks (Terraform) and Privileged Access Platform.
• Lead and Scale People: Build, coach, and retain a high-performing team of engineers specializing in cloud architecture, infrastructure, and platform engineering.
• Evolve Operational Maturity: Elevate engineering practices around automation, observability, resiliency, and secure-by-default architecture.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as a strategic liaison between Engineering, Product, Security and other stakeholders to align priorities and manage dependencies.

What you'll need

• Proven experience leading high-impact platform, cloud infrastructure, SRE or DevOps teams in a complex, scale-up or enterprise environment.
• Deep experience in AWS cloud architecture, automated multi-account management frameworks and cloud networking baselines.
• Proven track record of transforming foundational cloud infrastructure into product-led, self-service platform solutions.
• Solid grasp of self-service platform design, observability, automation and secure-by-default architecture.
• Strong skills in coaching, performance management, team building and cultivating an inclusive, high-accountability culture.
• Excellent communication and influence skills with full professional proficiency in English.

What they offer

• Competitive personal development budget, work from home budget, fitness & wellness discounts, language apps and public transportation.
• Hybrid work: dedicated office days each week plus flexibility for remote work.
• Premium N26 bank account subscription and access for friends and family.
• Additional day of annual leave for each year of service.
• Access to cutting edge technologies and diverse, international team.