Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

Permutive; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 115,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Greater London is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for the design and implementation of infrastructure for high-throughput APIs. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in infrastructure roles and a strong technical background. This position offers a salary range of £115,000 to £135,000 and flexible remote working options along with benefits including comprehensive health care and stock options.

Benefits

Stock options and employee ownership

Flexible working hours

Unlimited paid time off

Upgraded home office budget

Ongoing training and development

Qualifications

• 5 years in infrastructure, DevOps, security, SRE, or platform engineering roles.
• 2 years in a people leadership role managing engineers.
• Strong track record scaling complex distributed systems in cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, preferably GCP.
• Experience with containerization & orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of DevOps and Security engineers.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership on initiatives for core infrastructure.
• Drive technical decisions and architectural improvements.
• Oversee the management of security processes including audits.

Skills

Infrastructure knowledge

DevOps methodology

Security expertise

Cloud platform experience (GCP)

Communication and collaboration

Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Education

Degree in relevant field

Tools

Terraform

Kafka

CI/CD tools

Job description

About Us

Permutives mission is to rebuild data in advertising to protect privacy. The open internet needs a sustainable foundation that funds the free & open online experiences we all rely on. Permutives data collaboration platform uses edge technology to securely process data where it is and AI to discover signals that drive performance respecting consumers privacy preferences while delivering outcomes for publishers & advertisers.

Our customers include some of the worlds largest media companies and advertisers including News Corp, Warner Brothers Discovery, Hearst, The Guardian, Sky, State Street, Sonos and Apple and were backed by leading investors like SoftBank Vision Fund and Y Combinator.

About The Role

Permutives Infrastructure team is responsible for the reliability, scalability, security and cost of our platform and the productivity & experience of our engineers. We build the foundational infrastructure for Permutives platform and products which operate at huge scale with hundreds of thousands of RPS across billions of monthly end‑users.

As an Engineering Manager you will lead a team of DevOps and InfoSec engineers to own the end‑to‑end design, implementation and operation of the infrastructure that underpins Permutives real‑time high‑throughput / low‑latency APIs and services.

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager with strong technical expertise who stays closely involved in the work—this isn’t a hands‑off management role and we welcome candidates who are newer to people management.

What you’ll be doing

Your responsibilities will include :

• Leading & mentoring a team of experienced DevOps and Security engineers ensuring the team is oriented in a deliberate direction against a compelling roadmap while fostering individuals growth and career development.
• Collaborating with our engineering leadership to define and execute initiatives for Permutives core infrastructure and security posture.
• Driving technical decisions, architectural improvements, cost efficiencies and vendor management for a large‑scale distributed cloud platform.
• Partnering with Engineering and Product teams across Permutive to identify and implement infrastructure tooling that promotes reliability, velocity and autonomy.
• Overseeing the management of our security processes including audits and compliance efforts such as SOC 2.
• You’ll sit within our engineering leadership group.

What you’ll need

• 5 years in infrastructure, DevOps, security, SRE or platform engineering roles.
• 2 years in a people leadership role managing engineers.
• Strong track record building, scaling and operating complex distributed systems in cloud environments.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management and cross‑functional collaboration skills.
• Hands‑on experience with cloud platforms preferably GCP.
• Experience with containerization & orchestration (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.), messaging systems (e.g. Kafka) and databases (from Postgres to Bigtable & Redis).
• Proficient in infrastructure languages (e.g. Go, Python) and familiarity with the JVM for our application stack.
• Solid experience building CI/CD pipelines and automating deployment workflows.
• Proficiency in monitoring, logging, tracing tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Experience with incident management, postmortems, capacity planning and resilience engineering.

What we’re offering

We take a structured objective approach to salary-setting which is based on market information, our compensation strategy and your experience and capability as assessed through our interview process. For a typical candidate who meets our requirements we would pay between 115,000 - 135,000 options.

Permutive Benefits

• In this together: As a full‑time employee you’ll become a shareholder with stock options sharing in our collective success.
• Family Comes First: Primary caregivers receive up to 6 months of fully paid leave and secondary caregivers receive 3 months of fully paid leave to bond with their little ones.
• Your Time Your Way: Flexible hours let you fit work around your life whether its hitting the gym, meditating or handling family needs.
• Upgraded Workspace: A 350 budget helps you create the perfect home office setup.
• Recharge & Refocus: Unlimited paid time off (with a minimum of 25 days public holidays) ensures you get the rest you need.
• Grow with Us: Ongoing training and development opportunities fuel your career aspirations.
• Mental Health Matters: We prioritise your well‑being with free access to Spill, our mental health partner.
• Comprehensive Care: Enjoy virtual GP visits, healthcare services, work‑life consultations.
• Secure your future: Our pension plan with Penfold helps you secure your financial future (employer contributes 3%, employee contributes 5%).
• A company‑paid Cursor Pro subscription for all engineers.

Work Your Way

Permutive trusts you to manage your time and deliver results. Our hybrid model allows you to choose where you work best whether in your own productive space or our London (Farringdon) or New York (Union Square) offices. That said none of us work alone; we are part of a team.

To foster collaboration and connection teams in these locations come together in person at least once a week and are encouraged to benefit from being in our offices to meet with teams more often. Commercial and customer‑facing teams are encouraged to embrace in‑person interactions to build lasting relationships with clients and colleagues.

Every Permutive employee gets together in person at the company’s Annual Kick Off for a week in February. Each year’s event promises to be an exciting opportunity for us to come together, reconnect with colleagues and align on our shared vision for the year ahead.

Diversity Equity & Inclusion

At Permutive we’re taking a thoughtful intersectional long‑term approach to diversity, equity & inclusion. We care deeply about creating an inclusive work environment that allows everyone to flourish and we are taking continual action to progress in that direction.

We’re committed to hiring people regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodiversity status, disability status or otherwise.

Key Skills

• IT Experience
• Project Management Methodology
• Data Center Experience
• LAN
• Cloud Infrastructure
• Computer Networking
• Visio
• ITIL
• Project Management
• SAN
• Microsoft Project
• Project Management Lifecycle

Employment Type : Full-Time

Department / Functional Area : Engineering

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 115,000 - 135,000