Platform Engineering Manager: Lead Cloud Platform & DevOps

Effectory B.V.; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days leave

4 “cool downtime” days

Birthday off

Flexible working hours

Home office budget

Job summary

Effectory is seeking an Engineering Manager Platform to own the platform end-to-end, combining people leadership with hands-on technical work across architecture, automation and engineering excellence. You will lead Platform Engineers and SREs (3-4 FTE) and partner with Product, Security, and Architecture to enable high-performing software teams.

You will shape the Internal Developer Platform vision, ensure security, observability, and scalable infrastructure on Azure, and report to the CTO;

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Platform Engineering or related disciplines.
• At least 3 years of experience in an engineering leadership or management role.
• Strong experience designing and operating cloud-native solutions on Microsoft Azure.
• A solid background in .NET and modern software development practices.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform and/or Bicep.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the platform engineering strategy and 12-month roadmap, aligned with company objectives and engineering priorities.
• Drive the evolution of our Internal Developer Platform, making infrastructure, deployment, observability, and security capabilities available through self-service experiences.
• Continuously improve developer experience by reducing friction, increasing engineering productivity, and simplifying operational tasks.
• Establish platform standards, golden paths, and engineering practices that promote consistency across teams.
• Partner with engineering leadership to identify opportunities for platform investments that increase delivery speed, reliability, and quality.
• Own the reliability, availability, and operational excellence of our cloud-native platform.
• Lead improvements in observability, incident management, resilience, disaster recovery, and service reliability practices.
• Drive infrastructure modernization initiatives across Azure, Kubernetes, networking, and platform services.
• Ensure infrastructure and platform services can scale efficiently with business growth and product demands.
• Champion automation-first approaches to operations and platform management.
• Collaborate closely with the CISO to embed security, compliance, and identity management into platform capabilities and engineering workflows.
• Ensure platform services meet enterprise-grade security and governance requirements.
• Drive adoption of secure-by-default engineering practices, automated controls, and policy enforcement.
• Contribute to platform and infrastructure decisions that support Effectory's security and compliance objectives.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Platform Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers.
• Create a high-performance engineering culture focused on ownership, continuous improvement, learning, and operational excellence.
• Set clear goals, priorities, and success metrics for the platform team.
• Support hiring, onboarding, career development, and performance management within the team.
• Build strong partnerships with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, and stakeholders across the business.
• Provide technical leadership on cloud-native architecture, platform design, and engineering enablement.
• Guide decisions around Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, container platforms, and platform automation.
• Set the standard for how platform teams leverage AI, automation, and modern engineering tooling to improve productivity and operational efficiency.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive operational work and improve platform self-service capabilities.
• Act as a senior hands-on contributor within the platform team, regularly participating in the design, implementation, and operation of platform capabilities.
• Lead by example through direct involvement in platform engineering work, including Infrastructure as Code, cloud architecture, automation, CI/CD, observability, and reliability improvements.
• Maintain sufficient technical depth and platform expertise to coach engineers effectively and make informed technology decisions.

Skills

Platform Engineering

DevOps

Cloud Infrastructure

Azure

.NET

Terraform

Bicep

Leadership

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Kubernetes

Job description

Effectory is seeking an Engineering Manager Platform to own the platform end-to-end, combining people leadership with hands-on technical work across architecture, automation and engineering excellence. You will lead Platform Engineers and SREs (3-4 FTE) and partner with Product, Security, and Architecture to enable high-performing software teams.

You will shape the Internal Developer Platform vision, ensure security, observability, and scalable infrastructure on Azure, and report to the CTO;