Engineering Manager - Platform

Anaplan; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Anaplan is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Environment Tooling team within Platform Engineering. You will coach six engineers, balance operational stability with strategic initiatives, and report to the Senior Director, Platform Engineering.

The role focuses on Argo CD, GitOps, and next-generation non-prod environments, driving tooling and automation across production-like workflows and developer experience.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience managing platform, infra, or DevOps teams.
• Deep knowledge of cloud-native architectures and GitOps workflows (Argo CD).
• Experience with IaC and container orchestration.
• Strong focus on improving developer experience with self-service tooling.
• Excellent stakeholder management and roadmap transparency.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of platform engineers and drive career development.
• Own end-to-end delivery of Environment Tooling initiatives and roadmaps.
• Oversee Argo CD adoption, scalability, and operational support.
• Govern platform-wide feature flagging strategy and tooling.
• Design and build non-prod environments governance and automation.

Skills

Engineering Leadership

Platform & GitOps

Pragmatic Mindset

Developer Experience

Clear Communicator

Tools

Argo CD

LaunchDarkly

Tilt

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Helm

Go

Java

Job description

At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused 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 who 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 love celebratingour wins - big and small.

Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, values-based and disciplined in execution, you’ll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and let’s build what’s next - together!

Anaplan has an exciting opportunity for an Engineering Manager to lead the Environment Tooling team within Platform Engineering, and at the forefront of our ongoing DevOps and Platform transformation.

The Environment Tooling team is a cornerstone of our Platform Engineering organisation. They own and maintain our core GitOps deployment pipeline and drive developer experience tooling. Looking forward, the Environment Tooling team will expand its scope to lead our Next-Generation Environment Strategy - taking named ownership of our non-production environments and building automated orchestration and self-healing systems for the path to production.

As the manager of the Environment Tooling team, your passion will be coaching and building a talented team of platform engineers while balancing mission-critical operational stability with bold, strategic initiatives. You will lead a team of six engineers and report to the Senior Director, Platform Engineering.

You will join a collaborative engineering community that embraces diverse perspectives, isn't afraid to push boundaries, and is passionate about helping our customers and each other succeed.

Your impact:

Leadership & People Management

• Coaching & Talent Development: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of high-performing platform engineers, ensuring individual career development, clear goals, and continuous skill building.
• Team Wellbeing & Culture: Foster a safe, inclusive, and motivated team culture. Prioritise healthy work-life balance and operational readiness.
• Agile & Process Execution: Embrace a pragmatic Agile mindset to continuously refine team processes, manage sprint commitments, remove blockers, and deliver value iteratively.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with peer platform managers, security, and software development leaders to align on roadmaps, boundaries, and shared goals.
• Project & Initiative Delivery: Own end-to-end delivery of Environment Tooling initiatives, from scoping and planning through sequencing dependencies, tracking milestones, managing risk, and reporting progress to stakeholders.

Platform Ownership & Operations

• Argo CD & GitOps Core: Lead the active engineering ownership, architectural hardening, scalability, and operational support for Argo CD across the entire platform.
• Feature Flagging Infrastructure: Govern platform-wide feature flagging tools and setting the technology strategy.
• Operational Readiness & On-Call: Direct the team's dedicated on-call rotation to ensure deployment pipeline stability and smooth release execution during critical downtime windows.

Strategic Vision: Next-Generation Environments & Non-Prod Ownership

• Named Non-Prod Ownership: Establish the Environment Tooling team as the owner, guardian, and governance authority for all non-production environments across the path to production.
• Local Development: Provide and support modern developer environments, such as local Tilt workflows on developer laptops backed by cloud-hosted services.
• Environment Orchestration & Tooling Development: Design and build overarching orchestration systems and new platform tooling to tear down and rebuild non-prod environments on demand. This includes:
• Building New Core Capabilities: Architect and develop new internal tooling to automatically generate mock test data, manage environment test states, and provision test user identities.
• Integrating Platform Pipelines: Connect orchestration workflows with infrastructure automation systems (for cluster provisioning and teardown) and service hydration pipelines.
• Automated Self-Healing & Guardrails: Implement automated tooling to instantly detect when a deployment breaks a non-prod environment and execute an immediate rollback.
• Environment Governance: Define and enforce standards and usage policies for non-production environments across all engineering teams.

Your skills:

• Engineering Leadership: Demonstrated experience leading platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering teams as a manager or senior tech lead with a track record of mentoring engineers and driving key technical decisions. (First-time managers with strong aptitude and relevant lead experience are encouraged to apply)
• Platform & GitOps Expertise: Deep technical understanding of modern cloud-native architectures, GitOps workflows (Argo CD), Infrastructure as Code, and container orchestration.
• Pragmatic & Iterative Mindset: Strong commitment to delivering value early and oft, prioritising continuous improvement over single-burst perfectionism.
• Developer Experience Focus: Passion for simplifying the developer inner loop and building frictionless, self-service platform tooling.
• Clear Communicator: Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, capable of setting clear expectations, maintaining roadmap transparency, and establishing technical governance.

Technologies that the team works with:

• Deployment & GitOps: Argo CD
• Feature Flagging: LaunchDarkly
• Developer Tooling: Tilt
• Infrastructure & Orchestration: Kubernetes (EKS / GKE), Docker, Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes Operators
• Internal Automation & Pipelines: Infrastructure Automation, Service Hydration Pipelines
• Cloud Platforms: AWS, GCP
• Languages: Go, Java

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusionand Belonging (DEIB)

We believe attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering an inclusive culture strengthens our business. DEIB improves our workforce, enhances trust with our partners and customers, and drives business success. Build your career in a place where diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging aren’t just words on paper - this is what drives our innovation, it’s how we connect, and it contributes to what makes us a market leader. We believe in a hiring and working environment where all people are