Engineering Manager – Infrastructure

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Belgium.

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of six infrastructure engineers.

• Drive initiatives focused on infrastructure scalability, resilience, and operational excellence.

• Maintain active technical involvement in architecture, debugging, automation, and incident management.

• Oversee and manage the team’s on-call schedules and incident response protocols.

• Define and track operational KPIs, SLIs, and SLOs to ensure infrastructure reliability and performance.

• Develop and enhance financial governance related to infrastructure and cloud expenditures.

• Propel initiatives aimed at achieving zero-downtime deployments and ensuring highly available distributed systems.

• Enhance observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident management methodologies.

• Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering teams to meet platform scalability and performance objectives.

• Lead post-mortem reviews and root cause analyses to continuously enhance platform reliability.

• Cultivate a robust engineering culture that emphasizes ownership, collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement.

• Contribute to the long-term infrastructure and platform strategy.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over six years of experience in Software, Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, or SRE roles, including management responsibilities.

• Demonstrated success in leading and mentoring engineering teams in high-scale environments.

• Extensive experience in designing and operating scalable distributed systems.

• Practical experience with high availability, disaster recovery, incident management, and zero-downtime strategies.

• Deep expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native architectures.

• Strong engineering background in Kotlin or Java ecosystems.

• Experience in implementing monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability best practices.

• Skilled in defining and optimizing infrastructure cost KPIs and managing cloud spending governance.

• Experience managing on-call rotations, incident response, and operational processes.

• Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with the capacity to align technical initiatives with business objectives.

• Passionate about fostering the technical and professional growth of engineers.

• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to make pragmatic technical and operational decisions in dynamic environments.

• Fluent in English (CEFR C1 or C2); additional European languages are a bonus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first culture.

• In-person meetings at least once a quarter.

• Opportunities for professional growth.