AI-First Platform Engineering Manager

Frontiers Media SA; Madrid; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing days

Up to 3 paid volunteering days each ye

Employee Assistance Programme (24/7)

Learning and development support via a

Job summary

Frontiers Media SA is seeking an experienced Platform Engineering Manager — Internal Developer Platform to lead a high-impact team building a scalable, AI-first platform that enables engineering teams to move fast with governance. You will shape technical direction, support team growth, and partner across Platform Product, Senior Engineers, and Cloud Architecture.

The role requires hands-on leadership in CI/CD, Kubernetes, and policy-driven deployments, ensuring reliability while enabling safe,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software/platform engineering or related roles.
• Proven leadership across delivery, technical direction and people development.
• Experience building/running an Internal Developer Platform with measurable adoption.
• Hands-on with coding agents, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code.
• Strong experience applying CI/CD, GitOps, and policy as code in production.
• Deep governance and security understanding for agent-enabled platforms.
• Professional English, spoken and written.
• Eligibility to work in Spain or Poland.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team that builds and operates Frontiers’ Internal Developer Platform and evolves it into an AI-first, governed Agentic Engineering Platform.
• Own team delivery, technical direction, and people development.
• Partner in a delivery triad with the Platform Product Manager, Senior Platform Engineers, and Senior Cloud Architect.
• Ensure deterministic capabilities—CI/CD, policy gates, and deployments—remain reliable while expanding capabilities for safe agent workflows.
• Oversee a platform environment including Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Backstage, and related tools.
• Drive governance, security, and cost-awareness for agent-enabled workflows.

Skills

Platform leadership

CI/CD

Kubernetes

GitOps

Policy as code

English proficiency

Tools

Microsoft Azure

Terraform

Helm

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Backstage

Azure API Management

SonarQube

Entra ID

Key Vault

Azure Policy

New Relic

Grafana

.NET/C#

Node.js

Job description

Frontiers Media SA is seeking an experienced Platform Engineering Manager — Internal Developer Platform to lead a high-impact team building a scalable, AI-first platform that enables engineering teams to move fast with governance. You will shape technical direction, support team growth, and partner across Platform Product, Senior Engineers, and Cloud Architecture.

The role requires hands-on leadership in CI/CD, Kubernetes, and policy-driven deployments, ensuring reliability while enabling safe,