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Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure
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Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure
Senior Engineering Manager – Laravel Cloud Infrastructure
About the Role
We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Infrastructure organization responsible for the foundation that powers our developer-focused cloud platform: Laravel Cloud. This platform is built for developers and teams who want to ship their next big idea, optimized relentlessly for Laravel and PHP.
The mission is to improve the experience of developers everywhere—by investing in world-class infrastructure and the people who enable it. You’ll drive ambitious infrastructure challenges, develop leaders, guide technical direction, and foster an environment where engineers excel.
Your focus will be four types of ownership:
- Leadership along site reliability, availability, and performance outcomes
- Dedicated partnerships across product, engineering, and leadership
- Implementation of best practices such as GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, and security
- Clear communication of technical priorities to stakeholders, engineers, and leaders
Location: Between EU West and US East to optimise collaboration with a globally distributed team.
Responsibilities
- Leadership & Growth:
- Mentor and grow the team of Engineering Team Leads, each in charge of specific cloud infrastructure areas (Kubernetes, AWS, networking, storage, observability, and internal services)
- Foster a culture built on autonomy, ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement
- Guide Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, including on-call design, incident response, and reliability standards
- Drive individual and team career success through 1:1s, goal setting, and clear feedback mechanisms
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Strategic Direction:
- Collaborate with leadership to shape strategy, roadmaps, and resource allocation
- Define operational and technical priorities to ensure the platform remains reliable, scalable, and developer-delightful
- Partner with product teams to align technical resources with market demands
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Technical Excellence & Cross-Collaboration:
- Lead adoption of Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, and CI/CD best practices
- Collaborate with infrastructure engineering leaders to harmonise platform experiences
- Ensure seamless integration between infrastructure, engineering, and product teams
Measurement of Success: The 12-Month View
In Your First 30 Days:
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of the current state of the infrastructure organisation, including one-on-one meetings with all Engineering Team Leads and their teams
- Develop a clear direction for collaboration between leads and leadership
In Your First 90 Days:
- Drive significant impact, such as reshaping organisation processes, resolving key challenges, and communicating these strategies effectively to all stakeholders
- Launch talent development, retaining, and acquisition initiatives
In Your First 12 Months:
- Fully take ownership of the infrastructure organisation, including its SRE practices
- Establish effective processes, grow team leadership, and embed a professional culture delivering on elite performance
- Achieve a reliable, scalable, and delightful Laravel Cloud platform experience
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Requirements
- 6+ years successfully leading infrastructure engineering organisations, including manager-of-managers experience
- Proven track record growing architectures and teams for large-scale distributed systems with high availability
- Deep expertise in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), including on-call rotate designs, incident management, and SLO/SLI frameworks
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes in production (operator patterns and Go development), and hands-on experience with AWS (EKS, networking infrastructure, and security principles)
- Expertise in Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or (CDK/CloudFormation equivalents)
- Exceptional communication ability to align engineering outputs with strategic business goals
- Strong referee list demonstrating previous accomplishments in similar roles across a track record of challenging and ambitious work environments
Benefits
- Small tight-knit team where every engineer matters
- 100% remote + globally distributed: work freedoms from virtually anywhere
- Company equity
- Diverse conferences attendance (Laracon events worldwide)
- Comprehensive healthcare plan (Medical, Dental, Vision)
- Generous paid time off (Vacation, Sick days, Public holidays)
- Family leave (Maternity/Paternity)
- Performance-based incentives and company equity
- Pension plans (as applicable to local laws)
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