Engineering Manager: Cloud-Native Delivery & Leadership

Motion Recruitment; Sydney; On-site; AUD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment's client seeks an Engineering Manager to lead high-performing product engineering squads, partnering with Product Managers to deliver customer value while driving platform reliability and modern cloud architectures.

You will balance people leadership, delivery execution, and operational health, fostering accountability, continuous improvement, and technical excellence across four pillars: leadership, delivery & partnering, technical strategy, and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering, with 3+ years in formal engineering management or people leadership.
• Proven track record in people development, 1:1 coaching, hiring, and capability uplift.
• Strong background in cloud-native technologies (AWS, Microservices, Serverless) and modern programming stacks.
• Experience partnering with Product Managers to align technology roadmaps with business goals.

Responsibilities

• People Leadership & Coaching: Recruit, mentor, grow the engineering team; lead 1:1s and performance coaching.
• Delivery Execution & Product Partnering: Shape roadmaps with Product Managers; balance feature velocity with tech debt reduction; oversee end-to-end software delivery with Agile methodologies.
• Technical Strategy & Modernisation: Guide architectural decisions with Staff/Principal Engineers; drive cloud-native migration efforts; maintain robust engineering standards.
• Operational Excellence: Drive system reliability, observability, and incident response; monitor platform health using DORA metrics and ensure production availability.

Skills

People leadership

Delivery & product partnering

Cloud-native architectures

DevOps / observability

Communication

Job description

Motion Recruitment's client seeks an Engineering Manager to lead high-performing product engineering squads, partnering with Product Managers to deliver customer value while driving platform reliability and modern cloud architectures.

You will balance people leadership, delivery execution, and operational health, fostering accountability, continuous improvement, and technical excellence across four pillars: leadership, delivery & partnering, technical strategy, and operational excellence.