[Hiring] Hands-on Engineering Manager, Infrastructure @Miaplaza

Role Description

As an engineering manager at Miaplaza, your team will build technology with a direct impact on the lives of hundreds of thousands of students. Every step of the way, you will have the opportunity to influence our direction. Through our platforms, we create engaging, safe, and thoughtfully designed learning experiences that help children grow academically, creatively, and personally. If our platform is down, a child might not go to school that day. We’re looking for leaders who want their work to matter in classrooms and homes, who care about access to quality education, and who are excited to craft technology that makes a difference in young people’s lives.

What you’ll work on:

• Moving everything towards GCP and Kubernetes.
• Growing towards a scale that no longer matches our legacy architecture and actively investing in modernization.
• Migrating on-premise workloads to GKE, strengthening security and business continuity best practices.
• Moving toward platform self-service for our development teams.
• Consolidating and shrinking the stack, measuring every migration decision against daily burden on the team.
• Balancing platform initiatives and operational needs of the engineering teams you serve.
• Reporting to our head of engineering, splitting time roughly 50/50 between people management and hands-on development.
• Your team will consist of four engineers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of experience being a mentor/leader, of which:
• 1+ years leading a team, formally or as a tech lead.
• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering, of which:
• 3+ years running production workloads on Kubernetes (GKE preferred).
• 3+ years of experience with a major cloud provider and Infrastructure as Code. GCP is our primary cloud and we expect senior-level knowledge of IAM, networking, KMS, GKE, CloudSQL and Secret Manager.
• 3+ years of experience operating at a Senior, Staff, or Principal Engineer level.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline design and operations.
• Experience with GitOps (FluxCD or ArgoCD).
• Experience working directly with engineering teams and other managers as your customers on scoping and prioritization.
• Experience leading incident response, including running postmortems.

Requirements

• Experience leading a team through a significant architectural migration.
• Experience with consumer platforms at scale.
• Experience building in regulated environments.
• Experience operating self-hosted observability stacks (Prometheus, Thanos, Loki, Grafana, Tempo, OpenTelemetry).
• Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service tooling.
• Experience supporting .NET/C# application deployments.
• Experience with database operations (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ).
• Experience with Istio or other service meshes.

Responsibilities

• Work with your team to design, build, and operate the infrastructure the rest of engineering depends on: clusters, pipelines, databases, edge, and observability.
• Your customers are the other engineering teams. Work with the other Engineering Managers and product development leadership to scope and prioritize platform work.
• Set the quality bar for your team. Lead by example.
• Manage, lead, and mentor your team while working side by side with them in code quality, clean infrastructure-as-code, soft skills, best practices, etc.
• Lead team trainings, set SMART goals, hold performance reviews, and provide individual feedback recurrently to each of your devs.

Our hiring process

• Application and CV Review: Our team will review your application responses and CV, then follow up with an update.
• Initial Technical Screen (20 minutes): A quick screening call to answer some administrative questions and confirm your basic technical knowledge.
• Behavioral Interview (1 hour): Meet with a member of our HR team to discuss your experience and share your approach throughout your career so far.
• 1st Technical Interview (1 hour): Meet with a member of the Infrastructure team to answer focused technical questions tailored to our work.
• Scenario-based Technical Interview (1 hour): Meet with a member of the Infrastructure team and the team's engineering manager to work through two hypothetical DevOps scenarios.
• Leadership Interview (1 hour): With our head of engineering and executive leadership.
• Reference check: We'll reach out to the 3 references you provided.
• Offer & background check: Once you sign your offer, we'll run a background check in accordance with applicable law.

Compensation and setup

The pay range for this role is €82,000 - 140,000. Miaplaza’s compensation philosophy ensures equity and competitiveness while considering regional differences in labor costs.