Engineering Manager (Core Infrastructure)

At Houseful, we’re here to help everyone make intelligent decisions about their home

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Houseful is home to trusted brands Zoopla, Alto, Hometrack, Calcasa, Mojo and Prime location. Together were creating the connections that power better property decisions, by unlocking the combined strength of software, data and insight.

We make moves with head and heart to achieve our big ambitions, and to drive progress in the property market. There’s never been a better time to join us.

We want to make Houseful more welcoming, fair and representative every day. We’ll consider everyone who applies for this role in the same way, regardless of your ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, neurodiversity status, family or parental status, or how long you’ve spent unemployed. We’re reimagining the property industry for everyone, so we want our team to represent people from all walks of life. We actively welcome your application if your demographics or background are underrepresented in the technology or property sectors.
We’ve doubled our team in a year, and our new suite of products are delivering results for our customers.
As a central service you’ll be supporting truly cross-functional, agile engineering teams to help speed up and improve developer experience. We work autonomously to define ambitious goals, and help deliver them.
Our salaries and bonuses are competitive, and our exceptional employee benefits are rated 4.4/5 on review sites.

As a Core InfrastructureEngineering Manager at Zoopla:

• You will be responsible for coaching and leading a team of 8 Core Infrastructure engineers from a diverse range of work backgrounds, including cloud infrastructure specialists, SRE and software-orientated engineers.
• The role is focused on people, managing a host of stakeholders across the organisation, understanding people’s needs and ensuring the team have everything, both for work and personal development.
• The team mainly consists of senior, highly experienced and skilled engineers who work well together; this role is to ensure they are working on the most important business problem suited to them at any one time and executing on delivery.
• You’ll enjoy the three pillars of focus; FinOps, Developer Experience and Software Maturity.

Requirements

• You have demonstrable experience of 5 years in leading and influencing teams and organisations. You are well versed in coaching and performance management, both taking engineers through promotion, as well as having difficult conversations to ensure high standards are met.
• You have strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with an ability to communicate complex technical topics to non-technical stakeholders.
• You appreciate simplicity over complexity and understand when to navigate between both.
• You have a strong aptitude for understanding and attributing AWS and other cloud costs to specific teams and services.
You will have strong experience and knowledge of observability
• - both in terms of best practices, implementations and experiences with observability vendors.
Previous experience working on an SRE, Platform or DevOps team
• - experience building infrastructure component “vending machines” is a major plus.
• Previous hands-on experience with AWS is essential, along with strong experience in designing and implementing distributed, cloud-native systems aligned to the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• You will come from a strong software engineering background and are familiar with at least one backend language.

• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, or length of time spent unemployed.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays
• Private health and dental
• Gym on site in London – or membership in regional offices
• Up to 7.5% pension contribution by the company
• Free breakfast and afternoon snacks
• Discretionary annual bonus up to 10% of base salary
• Birthday day off, move house day off
• Training and development
• Referral bonus up to £5K