Manager, Software Engineering (Infrastructure)

RELX Group
Southampton, UK
2 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services Continuous Integration DevOps Distributed Systems Software Engineering Containerization Infrastructure Automation Frameworks Data Pipelines

Job description

As a Software Engineering Infrastructure Manager, you will lead the design, evolution, and operation of secure, resilient, and scalable infrastructure platforms. You will support engineering teams to build, deploy, and operate customer-facing services with confidence while balancing reliability, modernisation, and developer productivity. This role combines technical leadership, strategic thinking, and a focus on delivering measurable outcomes for global customers., * Lead, coach, and develop Infrastructure and Platform engineers, fostering a high-performance, ownership-driven engineering culture

  • Set clear expectations, measure outcomes, and drive continuous improvement aligned to engineering and leadership principles
  • Own the availability, performance, and resilience of infrastructure platforms supporting applications, data pipelines, and customer-facing services
  • Embed reliability practices including monitoring, alerting, incident management, and post-incident reviews
  • Drive cloud-first and platform-led strategies to improve scalability, security, and speed to market
  • Define and evolve infrastructure roadmaps aligned with product strategy and long-term growth
  • Champion infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and self-service platforms to improve developer experience
  • Manage infrastructure budgets, cloud spend, vendors, and procurement decisions with a commercial mindset

Requirements

Are you passionate about building resilient, scalable platforms that power global data products?

Do you enjoy leading high-performing engineering teams while driving modernisation and operational excellence?, * Experience leading infrastructure, platform, DevOps, or SRE teams in a product-focused, customer-facing environment

  • Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS preferred), infrastructure as code, CI/CD, container platforms, and modern networking patterns
  • Experience supporting data-intensive or high-availability platforms
  • Ability to collaborate with Product, Data, and Software Engineering leaders and communicate effectively across stakeholders
  • Strong problem-solving skills in complex, distributed systems with a focus on long-term reliability improvements
  • Experience driving automation and improving developer productivity
  • Understanding of security, compliance, backup, recovery, and resilience practices
  • Ability to manage vendors, costs, and technical decision-making with a commercial perspective

About the company

At Cirium, our goal is to keep the world connected. We are the industry leader in aviation analytics; helping our customers understand the past, present, and predicting what will happen tomorrow. Our mission is to transform the aviation industry by enabling airlines, airports, travel companies, tech giants, aircraft manufacturers, financial institutions, and many more accelerate their own digital transformation. You can learn more about Cirium at https://www.cirium.com

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