Cloud Infrastructure Manager

Anaplan; York; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job description

At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators who are focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.

What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers’ success and to our Winning Culture.

Our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies that rely on our best-in-class platform.

Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals and we have fun celebrating our wins.

We’re looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Manager to join Anaplan’s Platform Infrastructure Team, where you will be responsible for managing the Cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure that powers Anaplan’s SaaS product offerings. The role encompasses a wide range of responsibilities where you’ll manage a team of Infrastructure Engineers as well as playing a key role in leading infrastructure projects that contribute to the growth and expansion of the business. Ideal candidates care passionately about the wellbeing and engagement of the people in their teams and take pride in developing their talents.

What you’ll be doing:

• Day to day line management of a geographically dispersed engineering team
• Coaching and supporting your engineers with their professional development
• Driving high standards of engineering practices across the team
• Collaborating closely with stakeholders across the business, including Service Management, Release Management, Infrastructure Security and Engineering & Development teams
• Prioritisation and planning of operational work through Agile frameworks
• Leading projects that contribute to the organisation’s strategic roadmap
• Identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and resiliency within our platform and processes

Required skills and experience:

• You have experience leading or mentoring engineers, either as a manager or a senior engineer
• You excel at coaching and supporting the professional development of your team
• You are a natural communicator and can do so effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• You build productive relationships with stakeholders and peers
• Previous experience working with Agile frameworks such as SCRUM or Kanban
• Although this is not a hands-on engineering role, you will need a good understanding of Public Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps practices
• An understanding of Kubernetes / container orchestration is desirable