Cloud Platform Engineering Manager

Verda; Helsinki; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cash and equity

Hybrid work model

Global team collaboration

Job summary

Verda, headquartered in Helsinki, is seeking an Engineering Manager for our Cloud engineering team. You will shape the team's structure, set priorities with Product and the Tech Lead, and remove administrative work so engineers can focus on building.

You will own people leadership, career development, and onboarding, coordinate delivery, and ensure visibility of priorities, risks, and dependencies. The role offers hybrid work in Helsinki or London and permanent, full-time employment.

Qualifications

• Evidence of managing engineers through clear expectations, regular feedback, development, and fair performance management.
• Experience building or improving a team's operating system, not just coordinating its meetings.
• Strong delivery judgement: focus, trade-offs, dependencies, and early risk management.
• Enough technical background to understand the team's work, challenge assumptions, and coach judgement without owning tech.
• Experience hiring and onboarding engineers balancing delivery with longer-term capability.
• Strong collaboration with Product and technical leadership, with clear ownership boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Establish team structure, ownership, and ways of working that let the team operate without depending on you for every decision.
• Build planning and coordination practices that support delivery without adding unnecessary process.
• Remove administrative and organisational work that distracts engineers from building.
• Own people leadership: expectations, feedback, one-to-ones, career growth, hiring, and onboarding.
• Coordinate delivery and dependencies, keeping priorities, commitments, and risks visible.
• Agree priorities with Product and the Tech Lead, weighing product needs and constraints.
• Improve the system when delivery or coordination problems repeat, not just workaround.

Skills

People management

Engineering leadership

Delivery governance

Cross-functional collaboration

Hiring & onboarding

Mentoring & coaching

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Job description

Verda, headquartered in Helsinki, is seeking an Engineering Manager for our Cloud engineering team. You will shape the team's structure, set priorities with Product and the Tech Lead, and remove administrative work so engineers can focus on building.

You will own people leadership, career development, and onboarding, coordinate delivery, and ensure visibility of priorities, risks, and dependencies. The role offers hybrid work in Helsinki or London and permanent, full-time employment.