Software Engineering Manager – Platform

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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ENSEK

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2010

⚡ Energy

☁️ SaaS

💳 Fintech

💰 Non Equity Assistance on 2019-03

Energy • SaaS • Fintech

ENSEK is a cloud-native retail energy platform designed for both domestic and business customers. It provides a comprehensive suite of tools for various aspects of energy management including billing, onboarding, financial accounting, customer management, and market communications. ENSEK aims to streamline operations for energy suppliers, thereby enhancing their ability to navigate regulatory complexities and consumer demands, all while focusing on digital transformation and sustainability in the energy sector.

📋 Description

• Team leadership: Line manage, mentor and grow a team of platform engineers and SREs. Build a high‑performing, psychologically safe culture that values learning, accountability and continuous improvement. • Technical strategy & delivery: Define and execute the platform roadmap including compute, networking, storage, CI/CD and Kubernetes‑based services. Balance technical debt, reliability work and new feature delivery. • Reliability & SLAs: Own SLIs/SLOs for platform services, drive reliability programmes, and ensure teams meet agreed availability and performance targets. • Observability & incident management: Champion end‑to‑end observability (metrics, tracing, logging), lead major incident responses, and run blameless post‑incident reviews with actionable RCA and follow‑through. • Automation & infrastructure as code: Promote automation-first approaches for provisioning, deployments and runbook automation using IaC and CI/CD best practice. • Security & compliance: Work closely with InfoSec to embed secure configurations, secrets management and compliance controls into the platform lifecycle.

🎯 Requirements

• Proven engineering management experience: 3 years + leading platform, SRE or infrastructure teams in a cloud‑native environment (typically 3+ years in management plus strong hands‑on experience) • Strong SRE/DevOps background: Hands‑on experience operating cloud services at scale with a solid understanding of SLIs/SLOs, error budgets and incident lifecycle • Public cloud expertise: Deep experience with AWS services (compute, networking, storage and managed services) and cloud operational patterns • Infrastructure as Code: Practical experience with Terraform, CloudFormation or equivalent • Containerisation & orchestration: Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, Helm and related ecosystem tools • Observability tooling: Experience implementing and operating metrics, tracing and logging stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch or Jaeger • CI/CD & automation: Familiarity with pipeline tooling (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins) and automation frameworks to enable reliable delivery • Programming & scripting: Comfortable writing and reviewing code or scripts (Python, Go, Bash) to automate tasks and build platform tooling.

🏖️ Benefits

• 25 days’ holiday + bank holidays • Option to buy or sell 5 extra annual leave days per year • Vitality Health Insurance, including private healthcare, virtual GP access and mental‑health support • Pension with 5% matched contribution • Regular team‑wide and company‑wide events • 2 volunteering days per year • Remote‑first working environment with offices in London and Nottingham