Infrastructure Engineering Manager

Elevation Group; Den Haag; Hybrid; EUR 96,000 - 118,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Pension scheme

Development budget

Vitality budget

Travel reimbursement

NS Business Card

Bike leasing

Laptop and phone

Job summary

Elevation Group is seeking an infrastructure engineering manager to own two teams totaling about 10 engineers. You will lead CI/CD, cloud deployment on Azure (AKS, Terraform), and virtual appliances, focusing on internal platform delivery for a global SaaS.

You’ll stay hands-on with hard engineering problems, shape the technical roadmap, and collaborate on hosting, data sovereignty, and observability to scale the platform responsibly.

Qualifications

• Strong cloud deployment/platform engineering background with ~7 years of experience.
• 3+ years of leading and growing engineering teams.
• Experience in operationally critical environments; familiarity with virtual appliances is a plus.
• Ability to connect engineering decisions to business outcomes and communicate in English.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow two engineering teams (≈10 engineers) working on CI/CD, cloud deployment, and virtual appliances.
• Drive evolution of a global SaaS deployment architecture with multi-tenant components and on-prem deployments.
• Stay hands-on and technically credible to engage on hard engineering problems with the teams.
• Contribute to the technical roadmap and identify gaps before they become issues.
• Collaborate on cross-team infrastructure strategy, hosting, data sovereignty, and observability.
• Champion engineering productivity, including leveraging AI tooling where beneficial.
• Coach and challenge engineers to differentiate high performance from merely shipping.

Skills

Cloud deployment

Platform engineering

Team leadership

Tools

Terraform

AKS

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Do you thrive on solving genuinely complex deployment problems, spanning cloud, on premises, and virtual appliances deployed at global scale? Are you an infrastructure engineering manager who thinks like a builder rather than an operator, stays technically sharp, connects engineering work to business outcomes, and knows how to grow engineers rather than just manage them? Then we're looking for you!

About the assignment

You’ll be stepping into ownership of two strong engineering teams, around 10 engineers combined, at a pivotal moment for the organization's deployment architecture. This isn't a role about keeping the lights on: the platform needs to evolve, and you're expected to help drive that forward. Your teams work on backend engineering for deployment: CI/CD pipelines, cloud deployment on Azure (including AKS and Terraform), and virtual appliance deployments (packaged, zip based deployments to on premises environments) across a global customer base, including regions like Australia and Brazil. The deployment landscape is intentionally complex: monoliths, microservices, single and multi-tenant SaaS components, all needing to scale reliably worldwide. Beyond your own teams, you'll work closely with peers on broader infrastructure strategy, hosting strategy, data sovereignty, observability, and the continued evolution of the cloud platform. This is a role focused on internal platforms for engineering teams, not IT operations or enterprise IT infrastructure.

What you will be doing

• Lead and grow two engineering teams (around 10 engineers) working on CI/CD, cloud deployment, and virtual appliances
• Drive the evolution of a complex, global SaaS deployment architecture, including single and multi-tenant components and on premises deployments
• Stay hands on and technically credible enough to engage on hard engineering problems with your teams
• Proactively contribute to the technical roadmap and identify gaps before they become problems
• Collaborate with peers on cross-team infrastructure strategy, hosting strategy, data sovereignty, and observability
• Champion engineering productivity, including how AI tooling can change what's possible for your teams
• Coach and challenge engineers, distinguishing between a team that performs and one that just ships

Requirements

• Strong technical background in cloud deployment or platform engineering, with around 7 years of relevant experience (somewhat less is fine with comparable experience from a similar environment)
• 3+ years of experience leading and growing engineering teams, not just managing them
• Experience in operationally critical environments; affinity with virtual appliance based deployment models is a strong plus
• Ability to connect engineering decisions to business outcomes, build effective stakeholder relationships and communicate professionally in English

About the organization

This is an established, internationally growing SaaS company that has spent years building software that helps service teams around the world improve how they deliver service. With revenue in the tens of millions and a growing international customer base, the organization finds itself at a pivotal stage: the platform is being modernized, cloud foundations are being strengthened, and there's significant investment in the engineering capacity needed to sustainably support global scale.

A culture of ownership, transparency, and pragmatic problem-solving is central: "you build it, you own it." Teams work in an agile way, in two-week sprints, using retrospectives to continuously refine how they work. The backlog is managed collaboratively, and there's plenty of room for personal input; engineers are expected to help shape the direction of the platform, not just execute on it.

The organization places strong value on open communication and constructive feedback, in an environment where every voice is heard. Work happens largely on-site, in close contact with colleagues across the various engineering teams, so knowledge is shared easily and decisions can be made quickly. At the same time, there's genuine attention to work-life balance and to the future of work: how to stay connected as a team even as the organization continues to grow and internationalize.

What we offer

• A gross annual salary of up to €107,000 based on 40 hours per week, depending on experience
• Hybrid working, including a home office allowance
• A pension scheme with employer contribution
• A personal development budget for conferences, certifications, and courses
• A Vitality Budget of €50 per month for sports, a gym membership, or other things that contribute to your mental and physical health
• Travel expense reimbursement or an NS Business Card, plus the option to lease a bicycle through the company
• A modern laptop and phone