Engineering Manager - Runtime Platform

EngineersOfAI; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

EngineersOfAI is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the Cloud Foundations team within Platform Engineering. You will shape the architectural bedrock of our cloud platform, guiding engineers to evolve foundational cloud systems into robust, developer-friendly products.

You will own strategy, execution, and organizational design across cloud baselines, multi-account management, and secure infrastructure. You will mentor engineers, drive automation and observability, and collaborate with

Qualifikationen

• Proven experience leading high-impact platform, cloud infrastructure, SRE or DevOps teams.
• Deep experience in AWS cloud architecture and automated multi-account management.
• Proven track record transforming foundational cloud infrastructure into product-led, self-service platform solutions.

Aufgaben

• Define and execute the long-term roadmap for Cloud Foundations, turning core capabilities into self-service, developer-friendly products.
• Enable development teams to autonomously provision infrastructure, manage secrets, and deploy workloads securely via APIs and tooling.
• Oversee core platform capabilities: AWS account vending, Access Management, Organisation setup, Cloud Baseline, Terraform IaC, Privileged Access Platform.

Kenntnisse

Platform Engineering

Leadership

AWS

Cloud Architecture

SRE

DevOps

Tools

Terraform

Jobbeschreibung

About the Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Cloud Foundations team within Platform Engineering domain, Runtime Platform segment.

The Runtime Platform segment’s mission is to provide intuitive, self-service platforms that empower product and feature engineering teams across the organization to seamlessly build, deploy, run and monitor their business applications.

As Engineering Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the core architectural bedrock of our technology platform. You will be responsible for guiding a talented group of engineers as they evolve foundational, underlying cloud systems into robust, developer-centric platform products. You will have end-to-end ownership of the team’s scope - spanning strategy, execution, and organizational design - ensuring our cloud account baselines, container orchestration, networking, and secret management scale safely, efficiently, and autonomously.

This role is a unique opportunity to define the future of our cloud ecosystem, directly impacting developer velocity, platform resilience and operational security across the entire company.

In this role, you will:

• 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, promoting a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and shared ownership.
• Evolve Operational Maturity: Elevate engineering practices around automation, observability, resiliency, and secure-by-default architecture, balancing rapid developer velocity with strict availability and security requirements.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as a strategic liaison between Engineering, Product, Security and other stakeholders to align priorities, manage dependencies and advocate for platform adoption across the business.

What you need to be successful

Background

• 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 that enhance developer experience.

Skills & Expertise

• Platform Engineering Principles: Solid grasp of self-service platform design, observability, automation and secure-by-default architecture.
• People Leadership: Strong skills in coaching, performance management, team building and cultivating an inclusive, high-accountability culture.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Excellent communication and influence skills - able to interface effectively with Security, Architecture and Product teams to drive platform alignment without relying solely on formal authority.
• Fluent English: Full professional proficiency in written and spoken English.

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