Senior Infra Engineering Manager — AI-Driven Cloud Platform

Forerunner; Abu Dhabi; Hybrid; AED 973,000 - 1,217,000; Full time

Job summary

Headway is seeking an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Infrastructure Foundations team. You will own cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, LLM infrastructure, observability, and incident response, building a high‑performance, self‑serve platform with reliability at scale.

You’ll mentor engineers, shape the team’s strategy, and partner with Security and product groups to deliver safe, fast AI‑powered features across AWS and the Headway monolith.

Qualifications

• 5–7+ years as Engineering Manager leading infrastructure or platform teams.
• 5+ years as Software or Infrastructure Engineer with credibility in design reviews and incident response.
• Experience coordinating between platform teams and product engineers, with self‑serve tooling.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure at scale (AWS) and observability tooling.

Responsibilities

• Own infrastructure Foundations: cloud infra, deployment pipelines, LLM infra, data layer, observability, incident response.
• Lead and grow a high‑performing engineering team with on‑call rotation.
• Define production readiness expectations for AI workloads and secure container management with Security team.
• Set measurable goals for infrastructure work and communicate with senior leadership.
• Drive architectural decisions to reduce blast radius and improve reliability across the platform.

Skills

Engineering management

Infra leadership

Cloud/AWS

LLM infra

Observability

Team mentoring

Tools

AWS

Datadog

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Headway is seeking an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Infrastructure Foundations team. You will own cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, LLM infrastructure, observability, and incident response, building a high‑performance, self‑serve platform with reliability at scale.

You’ll mentor engineers, shape the team’s strategy, and partner with Security and product groups to deliver safe, fast AI‑powered features across AWS and the Headway monolith.