Manager, Software Engineering (Infrastructure) Location: UK – Grosvenor House (Southampton)
Job Type: Full time
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About the Business At Cirium, our goal is to keep the world connected. We are the industry leader in aviation analytics; helping our customers understand the past, present, and predicting what will happen tomorrow. Our mission is to transform the aviation industry by enabling airlines, airports, travel companies, tech giants, aircraft manufacturers, financial institutions, and many more accelerate their own digital transformation.
About the Team The Infrastructure Platform team are a key component of Cirium's Technology organisation and tasked with creating a robust, secure, and self‑service platform for Engineers to use.
About the Role As a Software Engineering Infrastructure Manager, you will lead the design, evolution, and operation of secure, resilient and scalable infrastructure platforms. You will support engineering teams to build, deploy and operate customer‑facing services with confidence while balancing reliability, modernisation and developer productivity. This role combines technical leadership, strategic thinking and a focus on delivering measurable outcomes for global customers.
Responsibilities Lead, coach and develop Infrastructure and Platform engineers, fostering a high‑performance, ownership‑driven engineering culture.
Set clear expectations, measure outcomes, and drive continuous improvement aligned to engineering and leadership principles.
Own the availability, performance and resilience of infrastructure platforms supporting applications, data pipelines and customer‑facing services.
Embed reliability practices including monitoring, alerting, incident management and post‑incident reviews.
Drive cloud‑first and platform‑led strategies to improve scalability, security and speed to market.
Define and evolve infrastructure roadmaps aligned with product strategy and long‑term growth.
Champion infrastructure automation, CI/CD and self‑service platforms to improve developer experience.
Manage infrastructure budgets, cloud spend, vendors and procurement decisions with a commercial mindset.
Requirements Experience leading infrastructure, platform, DevOps or SRE teams in a product‑focused, customer‑facing environment.
Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS preferred), infrastructure as code, CI/CD, container platforms and modern networking patterns.
Experience supporting data‑intensive or high‑availability platforms.
Ability to collaborate with Product, Data and Software Engineering leaders and communicate effectively across stakeholders.
Strong problem‑solving skills in complex, distributed systems with a focus on long‑term reliability improvements.
Experience driving automation and improving developer productivity.
Understanding of security, compliance, backup, recovery and resilience practices.
Ability to manage vendors, costs and technical decision‑making with a commercial perspective.
Benefits We know your well‑being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country‑specific benefits.
EEO Statement We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law.
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