Engineering Manager – Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure Team

Bloomreach

. Lead and grow a high-performing Infrastructure Engineering team, including hiring, mentoring, performance management, and career development .

Posted 11/2/2026full-timeRemote • Slovakia, CzechiaSenior💰 €49,500 - €76,190 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in leading Infrastructure Engineering teams, with a strong focus on GCP services, Kubernetes, and database operations. Proven ability to drive operational excellence, cloud architecture strategy, and cost optimization while fostering collaboration across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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GCP ServicesKubernetes ManagementDatabase OperationsCloud Cost MonitoringPeople Leadership

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Hard Skills

Infrastructure EngineeringCloud ArchitectureSLOs/SLIsObservability ToolingSQL/NoSQLTerraformPolicy-as-CodeIncident ManagementAutomationCapacity Planning

Soft Skills

CommunicationStakeholder ManagementMentoringTeam LeadershipPerformance Management

Tools & Technologies

GCPKubernetesCI/CDService MeshPlatform APIs

Certifications & Qualifications

SOC2ISO27001GDPR Compliance

Industry Keywords

Cloud-Native EnvironmentsOperational ExcellenceInfrastructure StandardsCost EfficiencyDisaster Recovery

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesNoSQLSQLTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and grow a high-performing Infrastructure Engineering team, including hiring, mentoring, performance management, and career development
Organize team activities and delivery rituals, including standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives
Own infrastructure strategy and execution across GCP services, cloud architecture, Kubernetes, databases, and observability
Provide cloud architecture expertise, shared infrastructure standards, reusable platform tooling, and self-service capabilities to application teams
Drive reliability and operational excellence through SLOs/SLIs, incident management, postmortems, and automation
Partner with Product, Security, Compliance, and application engineering teams to improve reliability, security, developer experience, and delivery speed
Define GCP cloud architecture standards, IAM models, and network/security guardrails
Improve scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency of GCP-based services
Implement cloud cost monitoring through tagging, allocation, dashboards, and anomaly detection
Own Kubernetes cluster strategy, upgrades, policy enforcement, platform reliability, deployment patterns, and CI/CD integration
Ensure production database availability, performance, backup/restore, and disaster recovery
Guide database capacity planning, migration strategies, and operational best practices
Build and maintain unified observability for logs, metrics, traces, and alerting
Provide documentation, training, and hands-on infrastructure support to application teams
Establish team operating cadence and deliver measurable improvements in reliability, deployment efficiency, operational toil, and infrastructure costs

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years in software, platform, or infrastructure engineering
2+ years in people leadership
Proven experience managing infrastructure teams in cloud-native environments
Strong hands-on understanding of GCP services, including compute, networking, IAM, storage, and monitoring
Strong hands-on understanding of Kubernetes in production
Strong hands-on understanding of database operations, including SQL/NoSQL, replication, backup/disaster recovery, and tuning
Strong hands-on understanding of observability tooling and SRE practices
Experience building foundation/platform capabilities for multiple engineering teams
Experience with cloud cost monitoring, budget ownership, and cost optimization at scale
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences
Ability to set strategy while remaining pragmatic and execution-focused
Terraform and policy-as-code experience preferred
Experience with service mesh, platform APIs, or internal developer platforms preferred
Familiarity with SOC2, ISO27001, or GDPR-related infrastructure controls preferred
Experience supporting multi-region or global-scale systems preferred

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible working hours
Virtual-first work model with Bloomreach hubs across three continents
Company events
5 paid days off for volunteering
People Development Program with personal development workshops
Communication coach support
Leader Development Program with feedback, coaching, and follow-up check-ins
$1,500 annual professional education budget for books, courses, certifications, and other education products
Employee Assistance Program with counselors
Calm subscription
One additional DisConnect day off each quarter
Sports, yoga, and meditation opportunities
Extended parental leave up to 26 calendar weeks for Primary Caregivers
Restricted Stock Units or Stock Options, depending on role, seniority, and location
Company performance bonus
Employee referral bonus of up to $3,000
Work anniversary rewards