Engineering Team Manager – Hybrid Infrastructure & OT

What you will do 

• Lead, coach, and grow the team, supporting career development, managing performance, hiring talent, and preparing for future skill needs. 
• Develop the team’s engineering skills and lead its evolution towards modern engineering practices, with a strong focus on Infrastructure as Code, automation, AI-native ways of working, and reusable, version-controlled solutions. 
• Lead the adoption of practical AI capabilities that enhance engineering efficiency, accelerate problem-solving, improve knowledge management, and reduce manual operational work. 
• Allocate engineering capacity across 3rd level operations including the engineers’ 24/7 on-call rotation, delivery, security, lifecycle management, automation and continuous improvement. 
• Agree priorities and realistic delivery commitments with Product Owners, technical leads and delivery teams. 
• Ensure the team provides stable and secure services while meeting agreed operational and delivery commitments. 
• Make capacity and priority conflicts transparent and address them by reallocating resources, adjusting commitments, requesting additional investment or escalating risks. 
• Manage personnel costs, external engineering contracts, team performance reporting & KPI and compliance with security and operational standards. 

We are looking for these competencies 

• Proven people leadership within infrastructure, platform, data-centre or operational technology engineering. 
• Ability to lead senior technical specialists without becoming the day-to-day solution owner. 
• Experience developing engineering capabilities and supporting teams through the transition towards Infrastructure as Code, automation and AI-native ways of working. 
• Experience balancing operational stability, delivery, security, lifecycle work, technical debt and continuous improvement within finite capacity. 
• Strong understanding of infrastructure operations, service levels, incident and problem management, and risk-based decision-making. 
• Understanding of production and Operational Technology environments, including the different approaches to change, risk, availability and operations required compared with established enterprise IT environments. 
• Confident stakeholder management across Product Owners, architects, security, finance, vendors and senior management. 
• Experience with budgets, external resources, contracts and performance data. 
• Professional English. 

What is beneficial 

• Technical background in compute, storage, virtualization, backup and recovery, data-centre infrastructure, edge platforms or operational technology. 
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, automation frameworks, APIs, scripting, Git-based workflows and the practical application of AI in infrastructure engineering. 
• Experience managing highly available or business-critical services with demanding continuity and recovery requirements. 
• Familiarity with hybrid infrastructure modernization, lifecycle risk and industrial or plant environments. 
• Familiarity with agile planning, Jira backlogs, SLOs and infrastructure lifecycle management. 

What we offer 

• Hybrid work environment 
• 7.5-hour workday and 5 weeks of vacation 
• Employee career track including regular growth talks 
• Extensive training: technical, soft skills and language courses 
• Coaching and mentoring 
• 4 sick days and 3 days off for volunteering activities 
• Daily meal contribution 
• Benefit card for sport, education, wellness, health and culture 
• Pension insurance 
• Mobile phone with company tariff 
• Reserved company parking for car, motorbike and bike, including lockers 
• Relax area and terrace