Engineering Manager, SRE & Platform Engineering

Patrianna Limited; Portugal; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Patrianna Limited in Portugal is seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead our DevOps function across SRE and Platform Engineering, ensuring robust production systems and scalable infrastructure.

You will own roadmaps, drive reliable delivery, mentor engineers, and partner with Engineering Managers to align priorities with business goals, while staying close to technology. This role offers technical influence, ownership, and a fast-growing scale-up environment with minimal bureaucracy.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering teams.
• Ability to build realistic roadmaps and drive initiatives.
• Strong communication with engineers and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own the DevOps roadmap and delivery across SRE and Platform Engineering.
• Drive predictable execution with effective planning and risk management.
• Lead SRE and Platform Engineering teams to balance prod needs with platform improvements.
• Manage people: performance reviews, development, hiring and structure.
• Collaborate with engineering to resolve systemic infrastructure problems.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership in architecture discussions.
• Drive platform reliability, incident response, and capacity management.
• Evolve the engineering platform with Kubernetes, CI/CD, IaC, observability.
• Improve engineering productivity through automation and process improvements.
• Optimize cloud costs while maintaining performance.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Delivery ownership

Communication skills

DevOps experience

GCP experience

Kubernetes

Terraform/Terragrunt

Helm

CI/CD

GitOps

Incident response

Observability

SRE / Platform Engineering

Tools

Jenkins/GitHub Actions

Job description

Patrianna Limited in Portugal is seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead our DevOps function across SRE and Platform Engineering, ensuring robust production systems and scalable infrastructure.

You will own roadmaps, drive reliable delivery, mentor engineers, and partner with Engineering Managers to align priorities with business goals, while staying close to technology. This role offers technical influence, ownership, and a fast-growing scale-up environment with minimal bureaucracy.