Engineering Manager – Infrastructure Team

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

📋 Description

• Lead and expand a high-performing Infrastructure Engineering team, encompassing hiring, mentoring, performance management, and career development.

• Coordinate team activities and delivery rhythms, which include standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives.

• Take ownership of infrastructure strategy and execution across GCP services, cloud architecture, Kubernetes, databases, and observability.

• Provide expertise in cloud architecture, establish shared infrastructure standards, develop reusable platform tooling, and facilitate self-service capabilities for application teams.

• Enhance reliability and operational excellence through SLOs/SLIs, incident management, postmortems, and automation.

• Collaborate with Product, Security, Compliance, and application engineering teams to elevate developer experience, delivery speed, security, and auditability.

• Manage infrastructure financial governance, including cloud cost monitoring, visibility, optimization, and accountability.

• Define GCP architecture standards, IAM models, and network/security guardrails.

• Enhance scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency of GCP-based services.

• Oversee the Kubernetes cluster strategy, upgrades, policy enforcement, platform reliability, deployment patterns, and CI/CD integration.

• Ensure the availability, performance, backup/restore, and disaster recovery of production databases.

• Guide database capacity planning, migration strategies, and operational best practices.

• Build and maintain a unified observability framework for logs, metrics, traces, alerting, and dashboards.

• Empower teams to quickly detect, troubleshoot, and resolve incidents with actionable telemetry.

• Advocate for infrastructure best practices through documentation, training, and hands-on support.

• Achieve specified improvements in team cadence, reliability, observability, deployment efficiency, operational toil, and infrastructure costs within 30, 90, and 180 days.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years in software, platform, or infrastructure engineering.

• At least 2 years in a leadership role.

• Demonstrated experience managing infrastructure teams in cloud-native settings.

• Strong practical understanding of GCP services, including compute, networking, IAM, storage, and monitoring.

• Experience with production Kubernetes environments.

• Background in database operations, covering SQL/NoSQL, replication, backup/disaster recovery, and tuning.

• Familiarity with observability tools and SRE practices.

• Proven experience in building foundational/platform capabilities for multiple engineering teams.

• Experience with cloud cost monitoring, budget ownership, and cost optimization at scale.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Ability to define strategy while maintaining a pragmatic and execution-oriented approach.

• Preferably knowledgeable in Terraform and policy-as-code.

• Experience with service mesh, platform APIs, or internal developer platforms is preferred.

• Familiarity with SOC2, ISO27001, or GDPR-related infrastructure controls is preferred.

• Experience supporting multi-region or global-scale systems is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible working hours.

• Virtual-first work model with Bloomreach hubs located across three continents.

• Company events.

• Five paid days off for volunteering.

• People Development Program featuring personal development workshops.

• Support from communication coaches.

• Leader Development Program including feedback, coaching, and check-ins.

• Annual professional education budget of $1,500 for books, courses, and certifications.

• Employee Assistance Program offering counseling services.

• Subscription to Calm sleep and meditation app.

• One additional DisConnect day off each quarter.

• Opportunities for sports, yoga, and meditation.

• Extended parental leave of up to 26 calendar weeks for Primary Caregivers.

• Restricted Stock Units or Stock Options, based on role, seniority, and location.

• Company performance bonuses.

• Employee referral bonuses of up to $3,000.

• Rewards for work anniversaries.