Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering – Infra
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Summary
Betsson Group is hiring an Engineering Manager in Budapest to lead a 10-12 person Platform Engineering team (Delivery and Observability). Day to day they own the platform roadmap, team development, and reliability of internal infrastructure enabling app teams to build, deploy and operate software using cloud, CI/CD, Kubernetes and observability tooling.
- Leading engineering teams responsible for platforms, tooling and capabilities enabling application teams to build, deploy, observe and operate software reliably
- Leading approximately 10–12 engineers across Delivery and Observability
- Working closely with Tech Leads, Architects, application engineering teams and other Engineering Leaders to set direction, prioritise improvements and ensure platform delivers reliable and effective capabilities
- Owning roadmap and delivery including prioritisation, planning and execution across the domain
- Building the right team structure, skills and culture while owning recruitment, performance, career development and succession planning
- Partnering with Tech Leads and Architects to challenge technical decisions, manage risks and ensure platform solutions are reliable, secure and maintainable
- Owning platform performance and stability by monitoring SLAs/SLOs, service health and engineering metrics, driving continuous improvement, reducing incidents and improving reliability
- Leading operational excellence including operational readiness, observability, incident management and effective RCA, acting as escalation point for major incidents and ensuring preventative actions
- Partnering across the organisation with application engineering teams, Architects and Engineering Leaders to understand needs, manage expectations, remove blockers and continuously improve platform capabilities and ways of working
- Strong technical background with ability to understand complex systems, review changes and challenge technical decisions
- Experience leading and developing engineering teams including recruitment, performance and career development
- Strong roadmap, prioritisation and delivery management skills with accountability for quality and timelines
- Experience working with Tech Leads, Architects, Product and engineering stakeholders
- Good understanding of platform engineering, cloud, CI/CD, automation and Infrastructure as Code
- Strong understanding of observability, reliability and production operations
- Experience managing SLAs/SLOs, service performance and operational metrics with focus on improving stability and reducing incidents
- Strong communication, stakeholder management and problem-solving skills with pragmatic and outcome-focused approach
- Experience managing teams responsible for CI/CD, developer platforms, engineering tooling or software delivery platforms
- Experience managing Observability, SRE or Platform Reliability teams
- Experience with AWS or other major cloud platforms
- Familiarity with technologies such as Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or similar tooling