We are hiring for world-class payments network with human-centric customer service, trusted by 15,000+ partners across 235 territories through our flagship brands. With a diverse team of 800+ professionals across 10 global offices, we are reshaping the international property market by connecting buyers, sellers, legal firms, banks, and real estate agents through innovative payments and embedded software solutions. Our mission is clear: to make buying property abroad faster, simpler, and safer.
About the Role
We are looking for a dynamic and experienced Senior Engineering Manager with a strong architectural mindset to lead and evolve our Platform & DevOps function. This hybrid technical-leadership role demands both strategic vision and hands-on depth to build scalable, cost-efficient, AI-enabled, and reliable infrastructure and development workflows.
You will lead cross-functional initiatives across cloud architecture, CI/CD automation, DevSecOps and FinOps, while mentoring engineers and influencing architectural decisions across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic & Architecture Leadership
- Architect and oversee multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure strategies.
- Provide architectural guidance on scalable infrastructure, deployment patterns, and resilient system design.
- Identify and drive opportunities to embed AI and automation into platform capabilities for operational efficiency and developer enablement.
- Partner with product, engineering, and operations teams to align on technical direction and platform strategy.
☁ Cloud Architecture, Optimization & FinOps
- Lead modernization initiatives with cloud-native, containerized, and serverless architecture design.
- Embed automation across infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and operations.
- Drive cloud cost optimization through automation, governance, and resource efficiency.
- Champion FinOps practices, partnering with Finance to ensure usage aligns with cost accountability.
DevSecOps & Security Automation
- Integrate security practices into the CI/CD pipeline, enabling shift-left security.
- Drive adoption of secure defaults, vulnerability scanning, and compliance automation across cloud and app infrastructure.
- Partner with InfoSec and engineering teams to ensure governance, auditability, and policy enforcement across environments.
- Promote a security-first culture in developer workflows without compromising delivery speed.
CI/CD Automation & Developer Productivity
- Design and evolve secure, scalable CI/CD pipelines to streamline code delivery.
- Promote deployment patterns like blue/green, canary, and automated rollbacks.
- Improve developer experience through build tooling, workflow automation, and policy-based governance.
People & Technical Leadership
- Act as a technical mentor and trusted advisor, guiding engineers on cloud and platform decisions.
- Foster a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
- Enable team autonomy by building reusable frameworks, automation templates, and governance standards.
Qualifications
- 12+ years in DevOps, Security, infrastructure, or platform engineering roles.
- 5+ years in engineering leadership or architectural roles.
- Proven experience with AWS (preferred), GCP or Azure, and Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi).
- Strong expertise in cloud-native design, automation, and platform scalability.
- Working knowledge or practical exposure to AI-powered DevOps tools, AI observability, or intelligent automation
- Proficiency in CI/CD tools (GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD) and observability stacks (OTEL, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
- Excellent leadership, communication, administration and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with FinOps frameworks and large-scale cloud spend optimization.
- Background in hybrid or multi-cloud architecture design and governance.
- A balance of deep technical expertise and people management experience.
- CKA, AWS Cloud certifications.
