Senior Manager, DDoS Engineering & Cloud Security

Oracle; Manchester; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cloud infrastructure company in Manchester is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the engineering team responsible for building and operating a cloud-scale DDoS protection platform. You will define roadmaps, manage team performance, and oversee the development of customer-facing DDoS products. Ideal candidates should have deep knowledge in networking, strong leadership experience, and proficiency in automation practices. Competitive salary and opportunities for team development are offered.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• 10+ years in network/security or backend engineering with 4+ years of team leadership.
• Strong delivery of large-scale DDoS or network security programs.
• Deep networking knowledge and ability to guide architectural decisions.

Responsibilities

• Define roadmap for DDoS platform and product.
• Lead service development from concept to launch.
• Oversee capacity modeling and scaling readiness.

Skills

Leadership in engineering teams

Strong systems design skills

Networking fundamentals

Fluency in automation and DevOps

Proficiency in Java

Excellent stakeholder management

Tools

CI/CD tools

Terraform

Job description

A leading cloud infrastructure company in Manchester is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the engineering team responsible for building and operating a cloud-scale DDoS protection platform. You will define roadmaps, manage team performance, and oversee the development of customer-facing DDoS products. Ideal candidates should have deep knowledge in networking, strong leadership experience, and proficiency in automation practices. Competitive salary and opportunities for team development are offered.