Engineering Manager - Platform

<div class="content-intro"><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><strong>About IP Fabric </strong></h3> <p><span data-contrast="none">Join a pioneering force in network automation! </span></p> <p><span class="TextRun SCXW160894911 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW160894911 BCX0">At IP Fabric, we enable people to uncover the truth about their networks. </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW160894911 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW160894911 BCX0">Built by network professionals and industry experts, our innovative solutions are transforming how enterprises manage their networks. As a post-Series B company, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW160894911 BCX0">we're</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW160894911 BCX0"> expanding rapidly across Europe, the U.S., and beyond.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW160894911 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":279}"> </span></p></div><h3>About The Role</h3> <p data-local-id="95a788fbb42e" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true" data-pm-slice="1 1 []">We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Product Platform team, a group of six backend and DevOps engineers who own the foundations of the IP Fabric product: how it is structured, built, tested, deployed, licensed, and run.</p> <p data-local-id="7ebe783336ea" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">The team is in the middle of meaningful modernisation work. That includes decomposing a monolithic application into clearer boundaries, evolving deployment from a Debian package model toward containers, reworking build and test pipelines, and improving the stability and performance of core services that every other engineering team depends on.</p> <p data-local-id="57ec0b386324" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">You will lead and grow that team, stay technically close to the work, and partner with Product to build a roadmap that connects platform engineering to business outcomes. A significant part of this role is making sure the wider organisation understands the value the team delivers. Your success is measured by <strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">team effectiveness, delivery, and the organisation's trust in the platform team</strong>, not by your personal code output.</p> <h3><span class="TextRun SCXW179799343 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW179799343 BCX0">What </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW179799343 BCX0">You’ll</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW179799343 BCX0"> Do</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW179799343 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":279}"> </span></h3> <ul> <li data-local-id="15b27d679da4" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Lead, coach, and support a team of senior backend and DevOps engineers</li> <li data-local-id="10c173c8b9ca" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Build a <strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">business-driven platform roadmap</strong> in partnership with Product, and communicate it clearly to engineering leadership and stakeholders</li> <li data-local-id="b42d705b2c89" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Make the team's work legible: connect platform initiatives to delivery speed, stability, security, and customer impact</li> <li data-local-id="d916cf9c3d18" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Establish a clear intake model for requests from feature teams, Product, QA, and Support, and hold sensible ownership boundaries</li> <li data-local-id="3a4ebf2eb536" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Guide technical decision-making and architectural direction, including deployment modernisation and application decomposition</li> <li data-local-id="5046dacb77e0" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Create a healthy, predictable delivery environment that accounts for both planned initiatives and interrupt-driven work</li> <li data-local-id="560e86776d7f" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Represent platform constraints and dependencies to the teams that build on top of the platform</li> <li data-local-id="e5f79617bc90" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Hire, onboard, and grow engineers over time</li> </ul> <h3><span data-contrast="none"><span class="TextRun SCXW106521436 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW106521436 BCX0">What You'll Need</span></span></span></h3> <ul> <li data-local-id="bc9f922dcc9c" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Experience leading software engineers in a product company</li> <