Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

Summary

Join Primer's Infrastructure team as a Cloud Infrastructure and Data Engineering Team Lead. Lead and manage the team, fostering a collaborative learning environment. Drive the cloud infrastructure and data engineering strategy, focusing on scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency. Work with engineers to design, deploy, and operate Primer's infrastructure. Design and build monitoring and alerting systems. Review technical architecture proposals. Plan and execute complex infrastructure and data projects. Improve knowledge sharing and collaboration. Promote a culture of cross-team learning. Primer offers a remote-first work environment and various benefits.

Requirements

• An experienced engineering leader with a strong track record managing infrastructure and data-focused teams in fast-paced environments
• A strategic thinker who can define and execute on infrastructure and data roadmaps with a focus on resilience, scale, and cost optimisation
• Strong technical understanding of cloud-native tools and platforms, including AWS, Kubernetes, Elastic, Docker, Terraform, Datadog, Snowflake, Kafka and GitLab
• Familiarity with FinOps frameworks and a passion for instilling cost-awareness and efficiency in engineering decisions
• Experience reviewing complex architecture proposals and guiding teams through trade-off analysis
• A collaborative leader who fosters psychological safety, inclusion, and high performance within the team
• Strong communicator who builds partnerships across engineering, product and business teams
• An advocate for continuous improvement in engineering processes, infrastructure reliability, and team development

Responsibilities

• Leading and managing our Cloud Infrastructure and Data Engineering team, cultivating an environment of continuous learning and collaboration
• Driving our cloud infrastructure and data engineering strategy and direction with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, resiliency, and cost efficiency through FinOps practices
• Working closely with cloud infrastructure engineers and data engineers to design, deploy and operate Primer’s infrastructure
• Designing and building monitoring, alerting and observability to ensure infrastructure performance, availability and health
• Reviewing technical architecture proposals with considerations for cost, scalability, performance, resilience, testability and maintainability
• Taking responsibility for planning, execution and success of complex infrastructure and data projects
• Improving knowledge sharing and collaboration within and across teams to remove roadblocks and maintain high performance
• Driving a culture of cross-team learning, encouraging the team to share key learnings with the wider organisation

Benefits

• We are fully remote
• Competitive share options
• Uncapped holiday, with 25 days minimum to be taken
• Co-working space access
• Workations & company retreat
• The best equipment for your role
• ��500 towards your home office setup
• Generous learning budget
• Medical insurance
• A broad set of additional perks and benefits ( depending on location)