Engineering Manager (Core Infrastructure) - Zoopla

Hybrid Working Pattern - 2 days per week from Tower Bridge office

Why Zoopla or Welcome to Zoopla

Zoopla is one of the UK’s most instantly recognisable property brands. In fact, we’re known and loved by over 91% of the nation (and we’re working hard on the other 9%). Our mission is to help the nation make better home decisions - by connecting everyone to their home and giving them personalised insights to help with moving, managing or financing. Over 50 million people visit Zoopla every month to access exclusive data and information on every UK property, search over 500,000 homes for sale and rent, find the best agents and secure the latest mortgage deals.

We’re a growing, dynamic team that embraces innovation and isn’t afraid to push the boundaries. We’re only just starting our journey to redefine the digital property landscape, with much more to explore and achieve. Join us, and transform the way the nation makes home decisions.

We want to make Zoopla 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 is delivering results for our customers.

You’ll be supporting truly cross-functional, agile engineering teams to help speed up and improve the 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 Infrastructure Engineering 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 teamhase 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 have a strong background in scripting and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and are familiar with the engineering best practices typically associated with software development.

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

• Everyday Flex - greater flexibility over where and when you work
• 25 days annual leave + extra days for years of service
• Day off for volunteering & Digital detox day
• Festive Closure - business closed for period between Christmas and New Year
• Cycle to work and electric car schemes
• Free Calm App membership
• Enhanced Parental leave
• Fertility Treatment Financial Support
• Group Income Protection and private medical insurance
• Gym on-site in London – or membership in regional offices
• 7.5% pension contribution by the company
• Discretionary annual bonus up to 10% of base salary
• Talent referral bonus up to £5K