Engineering Manager - Engineering Velocity & Enablement, Defence

Job Description

In Defence, we’re transforming how those who keep us safe prepare for the threats of the future. Join us and you’ll help build the most innovative virtual worlds available, so our defenders can plan, train and make life-saving decisions in the real one. The EVE team is responsible for enabling our engineering teams to be effective at developing and deploying this pioneering simulation capability. You’ll frequently find yourself innovating on tooling and processes to improve productivity and inputting into platform development. Your mission is to grow and lead one of our Engineering Velocity and Enablement (EVE) teams. Your focus will be split between a blend of hands-on engineering and pastoral management of your direct reports.

Your Opportunity:

• You will run an important part of our engineering group; the teams enabling our synthetic environment platform offering.
• You will understand the business drivers, functionality requirements, architecture, and technologies behind the products and systems you own and provide context and visibility into the reasoning behind decisions whilst empowering your engineers to independently execute.
• You will be responsible for decomposing complex problems into pragmatic straight-forward solutions with your team and planning the time and resources needed for successful project delivery.
• You will grow a team of successful engineers through collaborative development planning, coaching, and empowerment through strategic goals
• You will collaborate with other EMs and Senior SWEs/Principals to determine the strategic direction and long-term viability of your software architecture, both from a business and technology standpoint.
• You will help to shape the team’s software development practices as well as contributing to the software design process, reviewing code and making individual contributions where possible.

Why You’re Made for This:

• You an experienced engineering manager with a clear focus on managing the development and growth of software engineers. You ascribe to the idea of servant-leadership and are motivated by the success of your teams.
• You have experience leading DevOps/ SRE engineering teams
• You have led high-performing, happy teams building complex modern software with particular influence over product strategy and delivery.
• You have spent a proportion of your career as an engineer, leveraging that knowledge to coach and develop your reports.
• You are an empathetic communicator who can navigate tricky situations, having tough conversations where necessary, and being objective and structured in your approach to all personnel matters.
• From your time as a hands on engineer, you will have gained experience within cloud deployment projects, with solid technical knowledge across cloud technologies, containerization (Kubernetes) , CI/CD pipelines , build systems , configuration management tooling etc.

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