Engineering Manager, Platform & Environment Tooling

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

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.