We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Cloud Foundations team within Platform Engineering domain, Runtime Platform segment.
The Runtime Platform segment’s mission is to provide intuitive, self-service platforms that empower product and feature engineering teams across the organization to seamlessly build, deploy, run and monitor their business applications.
As Engineering Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the core architectural bedrock of our technology platform. You will be responsible for guiding a talented group of engineers as they evolve foundational, underlying cloud systems into robust, developer-centric platform products. You will have end-to-end ownership of the team’s scope - spanning strategy, execution, and organizational design - ensuring our cloud account baselines, container orchestration, networking, and secret management scale safely, efficiently, and autonomously.
This role is a unique opportunity to define the future of our cloud ecosystem, directly impacting developer velocity, platform resilience and operational security across the entire company.
Drive Platform Vision and Strategy: Define and execute the long-term roadmap for the Cloud Foundations segment, shifting fundamental cloud capabilities into self-service, developer-friendly products.
Empower Engineering Teams: Enable development teams to autonomously provision infrastructure, manage secrets and deploy workloads securely through well-defined APIs, robust tooling, and automated guardrails.
Own Core Cloud Foundations: Oversee a critical portfolio of core platform capabilities,



including AWS cloud management (Account Vending Machine, Access Management, Organisation level setup & Cloud Baseline), Infrastructure as Code frameworks (Terraform) and Privileged Access Platform.
Build, coach, and retain a high-performing team of engineers specializing in cloud architecture, infrastructure, and platform engineering, promoting a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and shared ownership.
Evolve Operational Maturity: Elevate engineering practices around automation, observability, resiliency, and secure-by-default architecture, balancing rapid developer velocity with strict availability and security requirements.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as a strategic liaison between Engineering, Product, Security and other stakeholders to align priorities, manage dependencies and advocate for platform adoption across the business.
Proven experience leading high-impact platform, cloud infrastructure, SRE or DevOps teams in a complex, scale-up or enterprise environment.
Deep experience in AWS cloud architecture, automated multi-account management frameworks and cloud networking baselines.
Proven track record of transforming foundational cloud infrastructure into product-led, self-service platform solutions that enhance developer experience.
Platform Engineering Principles: People Leadership: Strong skills in coaching, performance management, team building and cultivating an inclusive, high-accountability culture.
Fluent English: Full professional proficiency in written and spoken English.

📌 Engineering Manager - DevOps (Barcelona)
🏢 N26
📍 Barcelona