Engineering Manager - Platform; f​/m​/d

WHO WE ARE

At Wire, we’re revolutionizing secure communication for businesses, governments, and critical infrastructure providers. Our end-to-end encrypted platform is built on a commitment to privacy and robust security, enabling organizations to collaborate confidently in a digital world. Join us and be a part of an innovative team that’s setting new standards in secure, user‑centric communication.

Employment Type: Permanent

Experience

Required:

5‑7 years of experience within a Platform Engineering Managerial position.

Working Hours: Full‑Time

Location: Berlin, Germany (with potential flexibility for remote/hybrid work)

Reports to: Director of Engineering

Desired

Start Date:

ASAP

As an Engineering Manager Platform, you’ll be responsible for the end‑to‑end orchestration, advancements & stability of our production cloud. You will be the driver of our platform growth & innovation alongside leading a team of specialized engineers. You will be responsible for driving continual improvement, operational excellence & driving initiatives to improve & elevate developer experience.

Key Requirements & Responsibilities

Operational responsibilities

• Accountable for service availability & uptime. Meeting the needs of our SLA with customers.
• Experience in working in a fast‑paced scaling environment ensuring reliability & ensuring teams are operationally prepared for incident management, service & operational excellence.
• Lead and execute large‑scale initiatives such as consolidation & migration projects while maintaining operational excellence.
• Ensure the platform & operations operating model scales with the demands of our technical & product roadmaps.
• Design, operate, and continuously improve a large‑scale Kubernetes environment.
• Ensure platform reliability, scalability, security, and developer productivity.
• Improving & enabling developer experience should be at the core of your strategic initiatives.

Technical & People Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of SRE and Dev Ops engineers.
• Set clear goals, provide regular feedback, and conduct performance evaluations.
• Define and lay the foundation for Wire’s internal developer platform.
• Manage teams’ demand & capacity needs.
• Work closely with Wire’s technical & disciplines to shape and redefine our cloud platform, providing the foundation for a successful SaaS offering.
• Define & contribute towards Wire’s platform vision & technical strategy in parallel to supporting the delivery & requirements for our product roadmap.

Operational Excellence

• Ensure reliability, availability, and performance of our platform and services.
• Continually improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response strategies.
• Continuously improve system architecture and infrastructure to handle growing scale and complexity.
• Collaborate across disciplines & scopes to enable scalable and reliable systems.
• Drive initiatives to optimize cloud spending.

Dev Ops

• Enhance the developer experience by streamlining existing development workflows, tools, and processes.
• Enable our discipline & scope teams to manage their CI/CD platforms (tooling, principles & best practices). Drive clear requirements & roadmap items to support the team’s objectives & deliveries.
• Provide technical guidance and support to developers to help them overcome challenges and improve productivity.
• Advocate for best practices in coding, testing, and deployment.

Seniority &

Experience:

5‑7+ years of Engineering Management experience, leading our technology roadmap and guiding our team. This role is operational, requiring experience in both technology and people leadership.

Technical Expertise: 5‑7+ years of experience with Kubernetes.

Technical Expertise: 5‑7+ years of experience with hyperscalers: AWS (mandatory).

Desirable but not essential

• Experience with other European cloud providers.
• Hybrid/multi‑cloud operations.
• Git Ops and IaC:
  Terraform, ArgoCD.

Impact: Join a market‑proven company trusted by over 1,000 customers across diverse sectors.

Growth: Be part of a dynamic team where your ideas will shape the future of secure communications.

Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary packages, performance bonuses,…