# Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

**Company:** [Scale AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/scale-ai)
**Location:** London, United Kingdom
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** AWS, GCP, Azure, Oci, Kubernetes, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Terraform, CI/CD, Infrastructure As Code, Monitoring, Incident Response, Network Engineering, Slas/Slos, Backend Services
**Posted:** 2026-08-04

> Leads an infrastructure engineering team responsible for scalable, secure, and reliable cloud and on-premises platforms supporting AI applications. The role combines people management, technical strategy, backend services, production reliability, and developer tooling.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Define and execute the infrastructure roadmap aligned with business and engineering priorities.
- Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure systems.
- Set and maintain SLAs/SLOs for platform uptime, performance, and developer experience.
- Manage the engineering team and drive technical delivery.
- Design, build, and optimize backend services for AI-driven applications, focusing on AI agents, evaluation tooling, and automation.
- Influence the culture, values, and processes of a growing engineering team.
- Inspire and mentor engineers.
- Work closely with product, security, and engineering leadership to align on goals and priorities.

## Requirements

- At least 5 years of relevant experience and at least 2 years of experience managing infrastructure or platform teams.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or OCI.
- Experience with Kubernetes deployments on on-premises infrastructure.
- Deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines, such as CircleCI and GitHub Actions.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform.
- Experience with container orchestration, including Kubernetes.
- Experience managing production environments with high availability, reliability, and scalability requirements.
- Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, and incident response best practices.
- Experience working with modern developer platforms and internal tooling to improve engineering velocity.
- Solid foundation and real-world experience in network engineering.

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