Senior Engineering Manager

• Lead, manage, and expand a team of Infrastructure Engineers responsible for the operational excellence, scaling, and maintenance of our production OpenStack private cloud across multiple global regions.
• Define and execute the ongoing engineering strategy for our production private cloud, focusing on reliability, capacity management, and performance optimisation, ensuring it optimally supports our internal consumers and Kubernetes workloads.
• Communicate effectively; reach out to other teams involved in the delivery of your services and help information to flow between teams.
• Foster a collaborative culture that emphasises operational maturity, automation, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee the development and execution of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management using tools such as Terraform, Python, Juju, and GitHub.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders across the organisation (including SRE, SecOps, and Product Engineering) to ensure private cloud services align with business goals and SLAs.
• Manage and mentor team members, providing career development planning, coaching, and performance management.
• Drive initiatives to optimise hardware utilisation and improve system performance across our physical data centres.
• Leverage emerging AI tooling and frameworks to enhance the management, automation, and operations of our infrastructure environments.
• Promote and uphold best practices in private cloud security, high availability, and scalability.
• Evaluate new infrastructure technologies and vendor offerings to continually evolve the Anaplan Private Cloud stack.

• Extensive managerial experience in a high-growth environment, specifically running production data centres or private cloud
  infrastructure at scale.
• Proven ability to lead diverse and distributed teams of technical professionals in a 24/7 large-scale infrastructure environment.
• Strong technical foundation in operating production private cloud services (OpenStack), hypervisors (KVM), and bare-metal provisioning
  (MAAS/Ironic), coupled with a solid understanding of container orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Experience with modern automation, configuration management, and DevOps practices (Terraform, Python, Ansible, Juju, Bash).
• Experience with infrastructure observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki), security best practices, and infrastructure cost management.
• Adept in stakeholder management, capable of influencing outcomes andcommunicating technical details to a non-technical audience.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and organisational skills, with an ability to motivate and guide teams towards achieving strict business
  and technology goals.
• Relevant degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, and preferably a master’s degree in a relevant discipline.
• Experience managing teams in an agile environment.

• Leadership in large-scale, production private cloud environments (OpenStack).
• Managing senior engineering resources and infrastructure lifecycles.
• Supporting Kubernetes/containerised workloads on top of private cloud infrastructure.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and configuration management.
• Production hardware management, private cloud architectures, and operational resilience strategies.

• Experience with Canonical's ecosystem (Charmed OpenStack, MAAS, Juju, Landscape).
• Deep understanding of distributed storage (Ceph, Swift, Cinder) and software-defined networking (Neutron, Open vSwitch, OVN).
• Experience with enterprise container platforms such as Red Hat OpenShift.

Join us at Anaplan to lead a team that provides the core infrastructure for our business, delivering solutions that matter on a global scale.

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