Senior Engineering DevOps Manager

Senior Engineering DevOps Manager<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>Senior Engineering DevOps Manager<p></p><p></p><p><b>The Role</b></p><p>As a Senior Engineering Manager in Platform Engineering, you will lead high-performing teams that build and evolve the core infrastructure, tooling, and developer experience used across the organization. You’ll play a strategic role in shaping the vision and direction of our internal platforms, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and user-centric. While you won’t be directly involved in implementation, you’ll bring a strong understanding of technical concepts to support sound decision-making, ask the right questions, and guide your teams through architectural and operational considerations. This role blends people management and cross-functional collaboration to drive engineering excellence, operational maturity, and a culture of continuous improvement. You’ll be key in enabling product teams to ship faster, more securely, and with greater confidence.</p><p></p><p><b>What You’ll Be Doing</b></p><ul><li><p>Leading and supporting platform engineering teams focused on infrastructure, developer tooling, and internal platform capabilities.</p></li><li><p>Setting clear goals and tracking progress with key performance indicators (KPIs) related to platform reliability, scalability, and developer experience.</p></li><li><p>Leading the recruitment and onboarding of engineering talent to form high-performing teams with aligned technical expertise and strategic focus.</p></li><li><p>Fostering a collaborative team culture and mentoring engineering managers and engineers to support continuous development and long-term growth.</p></li><li><p>Collaborating across teams to align on priorities, manage dependencies, and resolve blockers, ensuring technical solutions are in sync with the broader engineering objectives and business strategy.</p></li><li><p>Driving strategic initiatives that improve platform scalability, reliability, and developer experience, while measuring success through defined metrics.</p></li><li><p>Working cross-functionally to align priorities, manage dependencies, and remove blockers - ensuring technical solutions align with broader engineering and business strategy.</p></li><li><p>Championing engineering best practices, including automation, observability, and secure-by-default approaches.</p></li><li><p>Representing your teams in planning and leadership forums, ensuring visibility, alignment, and effective communication.</p></li></ul><p></p><h3><b>What You’ll Bring</b></h3><ul><li><p>Proven experience leading platform engineering (or similar) teams focused on infrastructure, developer tooling, and platform capabilities.</p></li><li><p>Proven ability to manage high levels of complexity, successfully leading multiple major workstreams in parallel to drive business outcomes and deliver exceptional value.</p></li><li><p>Strong understanding of scalable, reliable systems and a track record of driving improvements in developer experience and operational efficiency.</p></li><li><p>Expertise in managing engineering talent, from hiring and onboarding to mentoring and performance management.</p></li><li><p>Ability to define, implement, and track SLOs to measure and ensure platform reliability, scalability and operational effectiveness.</p></li><li><p>Deep collaboration skills, with experience working cross-functionally with product, security, and other teams to drive alignment and remove blockers.</p></li><li><p>A strategic mindset, with the ability to align technical solutions with broader business goals and engineering objectives.</p></li><li><p>Familiarity with engineering best practices, including automation, observability, and secure-by-default approaches.</p></li><li><p>Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence and drive change at all levels of the organization.</p></li><li><p>A passion for building a healthy, inclusive, and high-performing team culture focused on continuous improvement and ownership.</p></li></ul><p></p><p><b>A Sneak Peek Into Our Tech Stack</b></p><ul><li><p>AWS, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Vault, GitHub Actions, Datadog and PagerDuty</p></li></ul><p></p><p>This is what you should have. What do we have, you ask? Well...you can check our  <span> </span><b>amazing perks &amp; benefits  <span> </span></b>right  <span> </span><a href="https://www.blip.pt/working-blip/perks-and-benefits/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here <span> </span></a>! </p><p>So ... are you in?  </p><p><b>Equal opportunities</b></p><p>At Blip, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strongly encourage people from all <span>backgrounds,  </span><span> </span><b>ways of thinking, and working to apply.</b><br/><b>We are committed to including everyone <span> </span></b> regardless of their race, disability, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, and religion. </p><p><b>Everyone brings different perspectives an