Manager, Software Engineering (Infrastructure)

Are you passionate about building resilient, scalable platforms that power global data products? Do you enjoy leading high-performing engineering teams while driving modernisation and operational excellence? 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. You can learn more about Cirium at https://www.cirium.com/ About our 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 Learn more about the LexisNexis Risk team and how we work here We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. 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Cirium offers aviation and air travel data and analytics to help keep the world in motion. Our people are at the center of who we are and what we do. We put the interests of our customers unmistakably first, we are empowered by the trust we earn from each other and our customers, we share a common global vision for Cirium based diversity, inclusion and collaboration and our passion for discovery will transform industries. Our team delivers insight, built from decades of experience in the sector, enabling travel companies, aircraft manufacturers, airports, airlines and financial institutions, among others, to make logical and informed decisions which shape the future of travel, growing revenues and enhancing customer experiences. Cirium has 12 offices globally with over 480 employees and is part of RELX PLC, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers with over 30,000 employees. CIRIUM.COM