Senior Engineering Manager - Cloud Platform & SRE
Job Description
[Up to c. $260k Base Salary + Significant Equity | On-Site Working]
Role Overview
We’re representing a venture-backed technology company building software for highly consequential aviation and critical-infrastructure environments. Following the award of a major US civil aviation programme, the business is appointing a senior engineering leader to take responsibility for the infrastructure organisation supporting both that programme and its established commercial platform.
Reporting into the VP of Engineering, this person will build the SRE capability, shape the underlying architecture and turn a multi-year delivery objective into clear priorities for engineering teams today. The mandate sits deliberately between organisational leadership and deep technical judgement - this is not a traditional operations role, but nor is it suitable for a manager who has moved too far away from systems architecture. The role offers unusually direct ownership over infrastructure operating at national scale, with significant executive visibility and the opportunity to build the team and operating model rather than inherit a mature function. It is based in Boston five days per week, with relocation support available; US citizenship is required...
Role Snapshot
- Typically 9+ years across software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure or SRE, including at least 3 years of meaningful engineering-management responsibility
- Build and lead the infrastructure and SRE organisation, including recruiting approximately 10 engineers and establishing the structure, management capability and operating model around them
- Own the architecture and delivery of cloud infrastructure supporting a national-scale aviation programme while continuing to strengthen the organisation’s existing production platform
- Bring deep AWS, Kubernetes and distributed-systems knowledge, with the ability to reason about multi-region architecture, failure modes, protocols and data movement rather than simply configure managed services
- Translate a multi-year engineering programme into near-term priorities, milestones and delivery mechanisms, while improving shared developer tooling and engineering productivity
- Establish the reliability model required for approximately 99.99% availability, including observability, incident response, postmortems, resilience engineering and continuous production improvement
- Build the SRE and on-call capability required for 24/7 services without introducing unnecessary process or reducing the organisation’s existing delivery speed
- Remain technically authoritative enough to challenge senior engineers, lead important architecture discussions and make high-consequence systems decisions without operating as a day-to-day individual contributor
- Lead the infrastructure roadmap towards FedRAMP and other regulated requirements, balancing security and compliance with pragmatic engineering delivery
- (Strongly Preferred) A software-engineering or computer-science foundation, manager-of-managers experience, and exposure to hyperscale, financial, government, defence, safety-critical or similarly demanding production environments
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