Engineering People Manager (Mandaluyong/Cebu)

Comrise; Mandaluyong; On-site; PHP 3,000,000 - 5,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

HMO coverage

Leave entitlement

Performance rewards

Job summary

Comrise is seeking an Engineering People Manager to lead a pod of 8–12 SRE/DevOps engineers across 24x7 operations, including night shifts. You will drive growth, performance, behavior, and wellbeing across the team, shaping senior trajectories in a population with a large junior base.

You will own staffing, performance cycles, training plans, and the rota, ensuring onboarding for new joiners and academy graduates while maintaining shift health indicators and effective escalation when needed.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE or DevOps, with 2+ years as a people manager or team lead.
• Coaching capability with engineers advancing under you.
• Technical baseline to coach juniors: Linux, Kubernetes, public cloud, observability, and incident process.
• Willingness to rotate shift bands, including the night band.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead a pod of 8–12 SRE/DevOps engineers and manage growth, performance, behavior, and wellbeing.
• Own staffing, performance cycles, training plans, and capability ledger entries.
• Manage rota, leave approvals, and onboarding for new joiners and academy grads; monitor shift health indicators.
• Build promotion cases with input from Service Reliability Leads and Tech Leads.

Skills

People management

Coaching

Shift planning

Performance management

Technical mentorship

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Linux

Kubernetes

Public cloud

Observability stack

Job description

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.

We run 24x7 and you rotate with the other Engineering People Manager (EPM) including the night band. That is a defining feature of the job, not a footnote: a manager who never sees two thirds of their team’s working life cannot manage them.

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.
• Night and rest-day shift differential
• HMO coverage and dependents
• Leave entitlement
• Performance Rewards

Working Conditions

• Setup: FULL onsite, Shifting (24x7 operations)
• Location: This position is available in both Mandaluyong City and Cebu City