Hands-on Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

About the role

Miaplaza is an education technology company focused on online learning platforms. This engineering manager will lead a team responsible for infrastructure and platform modernization, with direct impact on students and classrooms as the platform scales.

What you'll do

• Lead and mentor a team of four engineers, balancing hands on work with people management
• Drive migration from on premise workloads to Google Kubernetes Engine and consolidate the stack
• Partner with engineering teams to prioritize platform work and maintain service reliability
• Implement platform self service for development teams and uphold security and continuity best practices
• Own incident response processes, postmortems, and continuous improvement of tooling
• Collaborate with product leadership to shape architectural direction and governance

What they're looking for

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering with 3+ years on Kubernetes
• 3+ years operating with a major cloud provider and infrastructure as code, preferably GCP
• Experience leading teams as a senior, staff, or principal engineer
• Proficiency with CI/CD, GitOps tools like FluxCD or ArgoCD, and incident management
• Strong ability to collaborate with engineering teams and other managers

For applicants in Nigeria

• Location is 100% remote within the EMEA region; Nigeria is listed among eligible locations
• The listing does not state a specific timezone requirement beyond being remote in EMEA; confirm during interview
• The listing does not specify contract type beyond full-time; confirm payroll details during interview