Engineering Manager, Core Infrastructure

Tide is hiring a proven Engineering Manager to lead the Core Infrastructure team. The team provides a containerised cloud environment based on EKS that is the foundation of Tide's Platform Engineering provision to product engineering teams. Its mission is to provide product engineers a platform so they can build great products for members without directly provisioning cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Lead: Hire, coach, and set clear goals for a team of engineers; Plan: Develop a roadmap for architecture, upgrades, autoscaling, and capacity for our infrastructure, databases, and Kubernetes clusters; Protect: Make sure our platforms meet their targets for availability and security; Empower: Reduce the time that product engineers need to deploy and run services on the platform; Control cost: Help product engineering teams make cost-efficient choices for services that run on our platform; Collaborate: Share team context and build cross-team relationships; Balance priorities: Weigh technical decisions against team and company goals; Measure: Track team productivity with metrics such as DORA and SPACE, and drive measurable improvement

Requirements

10+ years of experience in distributed computing; 3+ years in engineering leadership roles; A degree in Computer Science or a related field; Detailed knowledge of AWS, GCP, or both, in a regulated environment that requires security guardrails; Experience running Kubernetes in production with GitOps (ArgoCD preferred); An understanding of how to use AI tools such as Claude, and how to help your engineers and customers use them efficiently; Excellent written and verbal communication skills; Experience managing stakeholders across teams and functions

Nice to have

Platform engineering experience that abstracts Kubernetes complexity into a stable internal product; Experience creating and maintaining Kubernetes operators

Benefits

25 days paid annual leave; 3 paid days off for volunteering or L&D activities; Extended maternity and paternity leave covered by the company; Personal L&D budget of 500 EUR per year; Additional health & dental insurance; Mental wellbeing platform; Fully covered Multisports card; Food vouchers; Snacks, light food, drinks in the office; WFH equipment allowance; Flexible working from home; Sabbatical Leave; Share options