Engineering Manager - SRE & Platform

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Engineering Manager - SRE & Platform based in France. This role combines engineering leadership, platform ownership and hands-on reliability work within a fast-growing global SaaS environment. You will lead a team of 6–8 engineers while owning the infrastructure, security and developer tooling that enable teams to ship reliably. The position spans cloud and hybrid infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, incident management, security and developer experience. You will remain technically involved through architecture decisions, infrastructure code reviews and participation in 24/7 on-call operations. You will also shape how the engineering team works by establishing clear standards, self-service workflows and scalable delivery practices. Alongside technical ownership, you will hire, coach and develop engineers while creating an environment of autonomy and accountability. This is a fully remote opportunity for Europe-based candidates, with significant influence over platform strategy and engineering effectiveness. Accountabilities - Lead and develop a team of 6–8 platform and reliability engineers, providing technical direction, coaching and clear priorities. - Design, build and operate infrastructure across cloud and hybrid environments, including networking, infrastructure-as-code, containerization and cost management. - Own deployment pipelines, automation, feature flag systems and progressive delivery practices. - Define and maintain monitoring standards covering logging, metrics and alerting. - Establish service levels and lead incident response and management activities. - Participate directly in 24/7 on-call operations as an engineer and remain close to production reliability. - Own the platform security framework, including vulnerability management, patching and framework and dependency upgrades.

- Ensure adherence to compliance requirements through audit logging, data residency controls and appropriate access management. - Improve developer experience through internal tooling, self-service workflows and standardized delivery paths. - Partner closely with software engineering and product teams to identify technical constraints early, align priorities and keep delivery moving. - Own hiring activities for the team, including identifying role requirements, conducting and calibrating interviews and making final hiring recommendations. - Run the performance management cycle, including setting expectations, providing regular feedback, conducting formal reviews and addressing underperformance. - Create individualized career development paths, including growth plans, promotion cases and mentorship. - Empower engineers to own their technical domains and make decisions with appropriate autonomy. Requirements: - Experience working both as an engineer and people manager, or equivalent experience as a senior/staff engineer with significant mentoring and leadership responsibilities. - Hands-on platform engineering or DevOps experience in production-scale environments, including CI/CD, cloud services, monitoring and infrastructure-as-code. - Proven experience owning production reliability, including on-call operations, incident response and service-level objectives. - Experience improving developer experience through internal tooling, self-service platforms or standardized engineering workflows. - 3+ years of direct engineering management experience, with ownership of hiring, performance management and career development. - Strong technical judgment and the ability to remain hands-on while providing direction and support to experienced engineers. - Collaborative leadership style, with the ability to build trust through partnership rather than control. - Experience in a fast-growing, global SaaS environment is highly desirable.