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# Manager, Software Engineering (Infrastructure)

- **Company:** RELX Group
- **Location:** Southampton, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Containerization, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** June 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://relx.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/relx/details/UK---Grosvenor-House-Southampton/Manager--Software-Engineering--Infrastructure-_R111489-2

## About the Role

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

## 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


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