Engineering Manger

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our DevOps-focused Platform Team within the User Foundations (UFo) Department.

🔷 ABOUT THE TEAM

The UFo department consists of 4 product teams (User Identifications, User Payment, User Choices and User Relationships) and 66 highly skilled people (Engineers, PMs and UXers).

Our team, located in Kraków and Stockholm consists of 3 DevOps and 1 Site Reliability engineers (2 people are located in Poland and 2 in Sweden). 

We closely cooperate with 4 product teams from our department, central teams responsible for developing and providing cross-organizational infrastructure solutions and participate in other initiatives such as infrastructure guild.

Our mission is to streamline and improve DevOps and engineering practices within the department helping products teams deliver high-quality products used by dozens of Schibsted’s brands and their millions of users in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland.

The tech stack includes:

• Cloud infrastructure run on AWS
• Kubernetes, Docker and Helm Charts
• Terraform and Cloud Formation
• Travis CI, Spinnaker and GitHub Actions
• Grafana, Victoria Metrics/Prometheus and PagerDuty.

🔷 ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our DevOps-focused Platform Team within the User Foundations (UFo) Department.

You and your team will be initially focused on migration from EC2s to K8S helping teams migrate their applications to new runtime without downtime.

You will have a chance to influence work on infrastructure in 4 teams, consisting of almost 40 developers helping them to follow modern best practices.

Once all teams are migrated to K8S, you will continuously work on its technical evolution to improve scalability, productivity, and reliability.

You and your team will be responsible for creating a vision and strategy for the future of infrastructure and bringing the ability to test-fit new technologies and keep the platform from getting stale.

🔷 ABOUT YOU

• You have strong ownership and accountability
• You have a collaborative and proactive approach
• You have experience in leading and managing a DevOps or Platform team
• You have experience in coaching and mentoring teams, working fully remotely
• ​​You have good communication skills (also English)

SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS

• You have experience with “You build it you run it” and “Thinnest Viable Platform” approach
• You have experience with AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform
• You have experience working with CI/CD - GitHub Actions, Travis CI, Spinnaker
• You develop the cloud infrastructure with cost control and security in mind

🎯 BENEFITS

🔹 Yearly bonus (STI - Short Term Incentive) up to 18% according to seniority level

🔹 Tax-deductible costs 50% for IT creators

🔹 Training budget 4000 PLN per year that can be used for books, conferences, online courses, you name it

🔹 Home office supplement 3000 PLN of financial support to make your WFH more enjoyable and healthy

🔹 Social package 500 benefit points (1 point = 1zł) transferrable to tickets, multisport, medical care, or a prepaid card

🔹 4 extra days off. We’re not minimalists. That’s why you get 4 days more than Polish law requires

🔹 In-house trainings for improving your business, tech & soft skills during working hours

• Tech Jump - mentoring program for learning completely new frameworks and programing languages 
• School of leadership competences - training for employees aspiring to become leaders
• Leaders Academy - training for leaders developing their competence

🔹 Mental health support. 

• Voucher for 3 online sessions with a professional therapist 
• Series of mental health-oriented webinars
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🔹 Flexibility. Sometimes you need to do your stuff and start a day later thanks to flexible working hours

🔹 Top-notch equipment. Most modern stuff with MacOs or Windows on board & mobile with either Android or iOS