Engineering Manager

Who you are

• Engineering Leadership: Demonstrated experience leading platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering teams as a manager or senior tech lead with a track record of mentoring engineers and driving key technical decisions. (First-time managers with strong aptitude and relevant lead experience are encouraged to apply)
• Platform & GitOps Expertise: Deep technical understanding of modern cloud-native architectures, GitOps workflows (Argo CD), Infrastructure as Code, and container orchestration
• Pragmatic & Iterative Mindset: Strong commitment to delivering value early and often, prioritising continuous improvement over single-burst perfectionism
• Developer Experience Focus: Passion for simplifying the developer inner loop and building frictionless, self-service platform tooling
• Clear Communicator: Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, capable of setting clear expectations, maintaining roadmap transparency, and establishing technical governance

What the job involves

• Anaplan has an exciting opportunity for an Engineering Manager to lead the Environment Tooling team within Platform Engineering, and at the forefront of our ongoing DevOps and Platform transformation
• The Environment Tooling team is a cornerstone of our Platform Engineering organisation
• They own and maintain our core GitOps deployment pipeline and drive developer experience tooling
• Looking forward, the Environment Tooling team will expand its scope to lead our Next-Generation Environment Strategy - taking named ownership of our non-production environments and building automated orchestration and self-healing systems for the path to production
• As the manager of the Environment Tooling team, your passion will be coaching and building a talented team of platform engineers while balancing mission-critical operational stability with bold, strategic initiatives
• You will lead a team of six engineers and report to the Senior Director, Platform Engineering
• You will join a collaborative engineering community that embraces diverse perspectives, isn't afraid to push boundaries, and is passionate about helping our customers and each other succeed
• Coaching & Talent Development: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of high-performing platform engineers, ensuring individual career development, clear goals, and continuous skill building
• Team Wellbeing & Culture: Foster a safe, inclusive, and motivated team culture. Prioritise healthy work-life balance and operational readiness
• Agile & Process Execution: Embrace a pragmatic Agile mindset to continuously refine team processes, manage sprint commitments, remove blockers, and deliver value iteratively
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with peer platform managers, security, and software development leaders to align on roadmaps, boundaries, and shared goals
• Project & Initiative Delivery: Own end-to-end delivery of Environment Tooling initiatives, from scoping and planning through sequencing dependencies, tracking milestones, managing risk, and reporting progress to stakeholders
• Argo CD & GitOps Core: Lead the active engineering ownership, architectural hardening, scalability, and operational support for Argo CD across the entire platform
• Feature Flagging Infrastructure: Govern platform-wide feature flagging tools and setting the technology strategy
• Operational Readiness & On-Call: Direct the team's dedicated on-call rotation to ensure deployment pipeline stability and smooth release execution during critical downtime windows
• Named Non-Prod Ownership: Establish the Environment Tooling team as the owner, guardian, and governance authority for all non-production environments across the path to production
• Local Development: Provide and support modern developer environments, such as local Tilt workflows on developer laptops backed by cloud-hosted services
• Environment Orchestration & Tooling Development: Design and build overarching orchestration systems and new platform tooling to tear down and rebuild non-prod environments on demand. This includes:
• Building New Core Capabilities: Architect and develop new internal tooling to automatically generate mock test data, manage environment test states, and provision test user identities
• Integrating Platform Pipelines: Connect orchestration workflows with infrastructure automation systems (for cluster provisioning and teardown) and service hydration pipelines
• Automated Self-Healing & Guardrails: Implement automated tooling to instantly detect when a deployment breaks a non-prod environment and execute an immediate rollback
• Environment Governance: Define and enforce standards and usage policies for non-production environments across all engineering teams