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Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure
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Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure
Laravel is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our all-remote Laravel Cloud Infrastructure environment devoted to transforming the developer experience globally. We move beyond software creation—we cultivate a world-class infrastructure foundation, nurturing the team that makes it possible.
Mission and Role Summary We’re tackling visionary infrastructure challenges, seeking a skilled leader to propel the organization toward that mission. This role covers:
- Leadership development for Engineering Team Leads
- Technical guidance across multiple teams
- Culture-building for an environment where engineers thrive
You’ll head our Infrastructure team, responsible for our Laravel Cloud platform—a fully managed infrastructure for developers seeking to rapidly deploy ideas, optimized for Laravel and PHP.
About the Role
As Senior Engineering Manager, you’ll:
- Lead four Engineering Team Leads, each owning specialized areas and senior engineering teams.
- Oversight spans Kubernetes (EKS), AWS, networking, storage, observability, and internal services.
- Manage Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), covering on-call, incident response, and reliability engineering for availability and performance.
You’ll collaborate across product, engineering, and leadership to deliver a developer-friendly platform, ensuring technical excellence, operational maturity, and organizational health.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a distributed team of Engineering Team Leads.
- Define standards for managing and growing teams through the leads.
- Cultivate a culture focused on autonomy, reliability, and continuous improvement.
- Facilitate career development via 1:1s, goal-setting, and ongoing feedback.
- Partner with leadership to align strategy, resources, and roadmaps with the infrastructure organization.
- Ensure platform reliability, availability, and performance, including SRE practices (on-call, incident response, SLOs/SLIs).
- Drive adoption of infrastructure best practices (e.g., GitOps, Infrastructure as Code).
- Shape technical requirements with product teams.
- Communicate priorities and decisions with leads, engineers, leadership, and stakeholders.
- Collaborate with other engineering leaders to refine platform workflows.
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Clear Signposts for Success: 12-Month Scarc Close
Within 30 Days
Identify the state of the Infrastructure organization and platform through direct discussions with each Engineering Team Lead and their teams. Form strong criteria and a strategic plan to guide future actions.
Within 90 Days
- Influence and refine organizational processes.
- Identify and address key challenges faced by the teams.
- Clearly communicate these challenges to all stakeholders.
- Actively begin talent retention, development, and acquisition initiatives.
Throughout the 1st Year
- Achieve full ownership over the Infrastructure engineering organization, including SRE.
- Implement effective, structured processes promoting organizational success.
- Develop Engineering Team Leads into formidable leaders for individual and team growth.
- Cultivate a professional, elite-level performance culture, ensuring a seamless, reliable, and delightful Laravel Cloud environment.
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Requirements
Experience and Technical Expertise
- 6+ years leading infrastructure engineering organizations, including manager-of-managers experience.
- Profound understanding of people and leadership needs necessary for team success.
- Familiarity with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, including on-call structure, incident response protocols, and reliability frameworks (SLOs/SLIs).
- In-depth expertise in Kubernetes within production environments.
- Firsthand experience with operator patterns (Go).
- Comprehensive knowledge of AWS services, especially EKS, VPC/networking fundamentals, and IAM/security architecture.
- Proven track record of managing large-scale distributed systems requiring high availability standards.
- Deep expertise in Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform or CDK equivalents.
Leadership and Communication Skills
- Skilled professional with the ability to align teams and resolve roadblocks.
- Clear and concise communication, able to influence leadership and foster engineer progress.
Benefits
- Housed within a small, tight-knit team where every member’s contributions are critical.
- Fully remote and globally accessible job role.
- VIP access to Laracon conferences around the world.
- Comprehensive health plan (Medical, Dental & Vision).
- Generous paid leave policy (Vacation, Sick, Public holidays).
- Extensive family leave options (Maternity, Paternity).
- Local pension schemes available as per location.
- Performance-based bonus structure.
- Company equity available.
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