[Hiring] Senior Engineering Manager, Cloud Engineering @Altana

Role Description

The Cloud Engineering team is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the group that owns Altana's regulated and sovereign environments. You will report to the Senior Director of Platform Engineering and lead a team of three to four engineers across the US, UK, and Australia.

Your responsibilities include:

• Own the architecture and operation of our regulated and sovereign environments across AWS and Azure, along with the IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code), Kubernetes, and release tooling beneath them.
• Lead the standardization of environment builds into a repeatable blueprint.
• Ensure critical technical decisions in the domain are sound through design review, RFCs, prototypes, and whiteboard sessions.
• Stay close to the work with hands-on engineering of your own.
• Work with our Security and Compliance team to embed secure-by-default patterns across your environments.
• Keep accreditations healthy, with vulnerability remediation inside contractual SLA windows.
• Support critical infrastructure by maintaining high SLAs.
• Represent the team in audits, assessments, and customer-facing technical conversations.
• Own a planning process that produces realistic commitments.
• Build solid operational practice across your environments.
• Own the cost of the environments you run.
• Translate accreditation and regulatory constraints into terms product and commercial teams can plan around.
• Build strong working relationships across Implementations, Security and Compliance, Developer Experience, and product engineering.
• Lead, coach, and grow the engineers on your team.
• Manage a distributed team spanning multiple globally distributed time zones.
• Assess team structure and coverage against what the domain needs.

Qualifications

• Background in SRE or platform engineering leadership.
• Experience managing engineers directly, with full ownership of performance, growth, and hiring.
• 8+ years building and operating cloud infrastructure in production.
• Direct experience delivering into US federal or other highly regulated government environments.
• Production experience building and operating environments in AWS and/or Azure.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code skills with Terraform, OpenTofu, or similar.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience designing tooling and patterns that work in air-gapped and compliance-heavy infrastructure.
• A track record of establishing operational practice on a team.
• Experience leading engineers across distant time zones.
• Strong sense of shared ownership, a collaborative disposition, and excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

Requirements

• Eligibility for a US security clearance (nice to have, but not required).
• Experience with other non-US national accreditation regimes (nice to have, but not required).
• Experience taking a compliance program from zero (nice to have, but not required).
• Experience at a startup or high-growth technology company (nice to have, but not required).

Benefits

• Flexible Time Off: Agency over your own time off for work-life balance.
• Parental Leave: Industry-leading Paid Parental Leave (PPL).
• Health Benefits: Full suite of medical, vision, and dental benefits.
• Supplemental Benefits: Life, short- and long-term disability, and AD&D insurance coverage.
• 401(k) Savings: Guideline 401(k) retirement savings program.
• Commuter Benefits: Pre-tax funds for public transit or parking.
• Wellness: Free premium subscription to Calm for mental and emotional health.
• Pet Insurance: Keep pets healthy with Wishbone insurance and telehealth discount plan.
• Employee Assistance Program: Free access to confidential personal support.
• Dependent Care FSA: Set aside pre-tax funds for childcare expenses.