Engineering Manager

Your Tasks

• Hire, coach, and grow infrastructure engineers. Run 1:1s, give performance feedback, and guide career growth.
• Set the team's priorities across new platform work, requests from game teams, operational load, and technical debt.
• Run planning with product owners and other engineering leads.

• Run the incident management process: on-call rotations and expectations, escalation paths, alerting, and blameless postmortems.
• Guide production change management, setting policy on deployment reviews, maintenance windows, and rollback plans, and so on.
• Define and track SLIs and SLOs for core services and set team priorities in response.

• Guide architecture for our on-premise datacenter and AWS environments, and how traffic moves between them.
• Oversee hardware lifecycle: procurement, bare-metal provisioning, firmware and OS updates, and decommissioning.
• Own network design and security across both environments, from Cisco routers and firewalls to VPCs, Transit Gateways, and access controls.
• Push for automation wherever possible, in provisioning, configuration, CI/CD, and observability, to minimize engineering TOIL.

• Set the cloud and on-premise infrastructure budgets, and forecast spend as the game grows.
• Manage vendor relationships and contracts with cloud, datacenter, CDN, and tooling providers.
• Find and deliver cost savings without trading away reliability.

Your Profile

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years in infrastructure, systems, site reliability, or distributed systems engineering.
• 2+ years managing engineers directly, including hiring and performance management.
• Strong grasp of distributed systems — message queues, service discovery, consistency, failure modes, and how to debug them in production.
• Hands-on experience running physical hardware in a datacenter — bare-metal provisioning, server and storage lifecycle, and working with colocation providers.
• Deep cloud provider experience, especially in networking and security (VPCs, Transit Gateways, routing, security groups) and running services at scale.
• Solid networking fundamentals — TCP/IP, routing protocols such as BGP, VLANs, firewalls, and router configuration.
• Experience leading incident response and building on-call and postmortem practices.
• Comfort reading and reviewing code in Golang or Python.
• Experience owning or forecasting an infrastructure budget.
• Strong technical writing and spoken communication skills in English — design docs, tradeoff analyses — and a track record of driving complex, cross-functional technical projects across multiple project and executive stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience with RabbitMQ, NATS, or other message brokers in production.
• Experience with DynamoDB and Redis.
• Automation with Python and Ansible.
• Bare-metal provisioning with PXE boot, Tinkerbell, or similar tools.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform, and CI/CD with TeamCity or GitHub Actions.
• Observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or Honeycomb.
• Background in game services or other low-latency, high-concurrency systems.
• Experience with hybrid on-premise and cloud environments, or migrations between them.

Our stack

What We Can Offer You

• The chance to work on EVE Online with talented, ambitious colleagues.
• A multicultural workplace that encourages growth and new ideas.
• Dual-monitor workstation and a flexible work environment.
• An active fun division that hosts regular events.
• A canteen with weekly breakfast and lunch menus, plus drinks and snacks.
• Discretionary quarterly and annual. performance sharing plan.
• Annual sports grant.
• Mobile phone and mobile plan.
• Home internet.
• Conditional monthly transportation grant.
• Free on-site doctor and other on-site. services at a discount.
• Relocation package.