Engineering People Manager

Opswerks; Cebu City; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Night differential

HMO coverage

Leave entitlement

Performance Rewards

Job summary

OpsWerks is seeking an experienced SRE/DevOps leader to manage a pod of 8–12 site reliability engineers through the full employment lifecycle, shaping growth, performance, behavior, and wellbeing. In a team with 60–70% junior engineers, you will decide how this population evolves toward senior roles.

You will own people management, capability delivery, shift planning, onboarding, and talent progression, coordinating with Service Reliability Leads and Tech Leads to build promotion cases and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in SRE/DevOps with 2+ years in people management.
• Strong Linux, Kubernetes, cloud, observability, and incident response skills.
• Proven coaching ability with engineers who progressed under you.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a pod of 8–12 SREs across performance, wellbeing, and career progression.
• Oversee capability ledger, training plans, and scheduled training within the rota.
• Manage shift rota, leave approvals, relief coverage, onboarding, and night shifts.
• Identify successors and build promotion cases with input from Tech Leads.

Skills

SRE leadership

DevOps

Kubernetes

Public cloud

Linux

Observability stack

Incident management

Coaching

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Monitoring stack

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Job description

OpsWerks is a technical consulting company specializing in operational services for the AI-driven, high-tech industry. We help platform and infrastructure teams operate multi-cloud environments, execute complex migrations, and enable seamless app deployments.

Your Role

You will manage a pod of 8-12 site reliability engineers through the whole of the employment relationship — growth, performance, behavior, wellbeing and shift life. In a population that is 60–70 % junior, this is the role that decides whether that population becomes senior.

What You Will Own

• People management and workplace behaviour (≈ 35 %) — weekly 1:1s with every direct report; performance cycles, goal setting and development plans. Address attendance, collaboration, handover discipline and conduct early and directly. Act on fatigue and shift-health indicators before they become attrition or incident risk.

  • Capability and training delivery (≈ 25 %) — maintain accurate Capability Ledger entries for every report and build each engineer’s training plan against the roadmap capabilities their service line requires. Schedule training as named seats inside the rota, not as time to be found later.

    • Resourcing and shift management (≈ 25 %) — execute the rota, approve leave, arrange relief cover and control overtime, and hold your 1:1 cadence regardless of where people sit in the rotation. Own onboarding for new joiners and Academy graduates: environment, tooling, process, and the human side of shift work.

      • Talent and progression (≈ 15 %) — interview for the group, assign Academy mentors, identify successors inside the pod, and build promotion cases that carry binding input from Service Reliability Leads and Tech Leads.

Your Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE or DevOps, with 2+ years as a people manager or team lead.

  • A technical baseline current enough to coach junior and mid-level engineers credibly: Linux, Kubernetes, a public cloud, an observability stack, and the incident process.

    • Demonstrated coaching capability — evidence of engineers who advanced under you.

      • Willingness and availability to rotate shift bands with your pod, including the night band.

        • Comfort holding a difficult conversation about behaviour or performance without escalating it prematurely.

          • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

            Plus points if you have:

            • Formal coaching or EQ-based leadership training.

            • Experience onboarding fresh graduates

            • Familiarity with competency frameworks and skills assessment.

            • Prior experience as a Duty Manager or shift lead in a 24x7 operation.

Benefits

• Night and rest-day shift differential

• HMO coverage and dependents

• Leave entitlement

• Performance Rewards

Ready to start your awesome journey and be part of OpsWerks?