Engineering Manager – Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure Team

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Slovakia, +1 more country.

📋 Description

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

• Coordinate team activities and delivery rituals, 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.

• Offer cloud architecture expertise, shared infrastructure standards, reusable platform tooling, and self-service capabilities for application teams.

• Promote reliability and operational excellence via SLOs/SLIs, incident management, postmortems, and automation initiatives.

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

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

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

• Implement cloud cost monitoring through tagging, allocation, dashboards, and anomaly detection.

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

• Ensure production database availability, performance, backup/restore processes, and disaster recovery procedures.

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

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

• Provide documentation, training, and hands-on infrastructure support to application teams.

• Establish team operating cadence and deliver measurable improvements in reliability, deployment efficiency, operational toil, and infrastructure costs.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• 2+ years of experience in people leadership.

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

• Strong hands-on expertise with GCP services, including compute, networking, IAM, storage, and monitoring.

• Robust hands-on understanding of Kubernetes in production settings.

• Solid hands-on understanding of database operations, including SQL/NoSQL, replication, backup/disaster recovery, and tuning.

• Strong understanding of observability tools and SRE practices.

• Experience in developing foundational/platform capabilities for multiple engineering teams.

• Familiarity with cloud cost monitoring, budget management, and cost optimization at scale.

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

• Ability to formulate strategy while remaining pragmatic and focused on execution.

• Experience with Terraform and policy-as-code is preferred.

• Background in service mesh, platform APIs, or internal developer platforms is preferred.

• Knowledge of 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.

• 5 paid days off for volunteering.

• People Development Program featuring personal development workshops.

• Support from communication coaches.

• Leader Development Program with feedback, coaching, and follow-up check-ins.

• An annual professional education budget of $1,500 for books, courses, certifications, and other educational resources.

• Employee Assistance Program providing access to counselors.

• Calm subscription.

• An 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.

• Performance-based company bonuses.

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

• Rewards for work anniversaries.