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 Switzerland.**

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.
• Knowledge of network engineering and DNS administration is a plus.
• Experience with feature-flag-based deployments is a plus.
• Security engineering experience, including vulnerability management and framework or dependency upgrade programs, is beneficial.
• Experience working in regulated industries is an advantage.
• Ability to work remotely from Europe, as applications from outside Europe are not considered.

**Benefits:**

• Fully remote position for candidates based in Europe.
• Competitive compensation and benefits.
• Opportunity to lead a team of 6–8 engineers with significant technical and people leadership responsibility.
• Hands-on ownership of infrastructure, reliability, security and developer experience.
• Opportunity to influence platform architecture and engineering practices across a growing SaaS environment.
• Meaningful work within the digital healthcare technology sector.
• Learning and professional development opportunities.
• Access to the tools and technologies needed to perform the role effectively.
• Collaboration with talented colleagues across an international, remote-first organization.
• Frequent company events and opportunities to connect with colleagues around the world.
• High-autonomy environment focused on continuous improvement, collaboration and engineering ownership.