About Uconia
Uconia is a construction technology company on a mission to turn static project schedules into dynamic, real-time operating systems. The platform connects master planning tools (Primavera P6, Asta, MS Project) with day-to-day execution on site, giving planners, operators and leadership a single source of truth across complex projects.
The product is trusted by large, enterprise-grade contractors running complex construction, pharmaceutical, manufacturing and infrastructure projects across Europe, with expansion into the US underway and pipeline developing in Southeast Asia. As the platform scales, so does the bar for quality - and the team responsible for it.
Role
We are looking for an Engineering Manager - Platform & DevOps. This is a hands-on leadership role. You will split your time between coding, designing platform architecture, and growing your team. You will report directly to the Head of Engineering and partner closely with peer Engineering Managers and feature teams to define and deliver the core platform capabilities: CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, observability, security, and developer experience.
Scope
- Reports to: Head of Engineering
- Scope: Greenfield Platform and DevOps team - you will help hire, shape, and lead it
- Direct reports: 1-5 engineers (Platform / DevOps) as the team scales
Key Responsibilities
Platform Engineering
- Architect and deliver core platform services - infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, observability, secrets management, and developer tooling - used by all feature engineering teams
- Drive adoption of reusable platform components, internal libraries, and shared services built on .NET Core and Angular, reducing duplication across squads
- Own cloud infrastructure design and operations on AWS - including networking, IAM, cost management, and availability architecture
- Debug and manage large-scale enterprise systems; lead incident response, post-mortems, and long-term reliability improvements
- Define and enforce platform standards: branching strategies, deployment patterns, container orchestration, and environment parity across the engineering organisation
Security, Privacy & Non-Functional Requirements
- Champion security and privacy by design - embed threat modelling, SAST/DAST, dependency scanning, and least-privilege IAM into every platform workflow from ideation, not as an afterthought
- Be the organisation's strong advocate for NFRs: performance, scalability, reliability, observability, and compliance. Partner with all Engineering Managers to ensure feature teams meet platform-defined NFR standards
- Own platform-level SLOs and SLAs; drive engineering decisions that keep systems highly available and performant at enterprise scale
- Ensure data security and privacy controls - encryption at rest and in transit, audit logging, access control - are built into the platform and inherited by default by all services
People Leadership & Delivery
- Build the Platform / DevOps team: lead hiring end-to-end, run structured interviews, make sound decisions, and onboard new engineers effectively in a startup environment
- Run regular 1:1s, give timely and honest feedback, and actively support each team member's career growth
- Manage performance actively - recognise strong contributors, address issues early.
- Own team delivery against roadmap commitments: planning, estimation, risk management, and clear communication of progress and blockers to the Head of Engineering
- Act as first point of contact for cross-team blockers, shared infrastructure issues, and platform reliability escalations
Cross-Functional Partnership
- Partner with peer Engineering Managers and feature teams to translate product and engineering priorities into platform roadmap items
- Contribute to engineering-wide decisions on process, tooling standards, coding practices, and team culture
- Work with Product, Design, and QA to ensure platform capabilities enable fast, safe, and high-quality product delivery
What We're Looking For
Required
- 7-10 years of software engineering experience, with meaningful time in platform, infrastructure, or DevOps roles
- Strong hands-on experience with .NET Core and Angular
- Deep knowledge of cloud technologies - AWS strongly preferred (EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, and related services)
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools ex: Terraform
- Proven experience debugging and operating large-scale, enterprise-grade distributed systems
- Prior experience leading or managing a team of engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career development
- Security-first mindset: experience embedding security controls into CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure, and application architecture
- Strong NFR advocate: you have measurably improved reliability, performance, or scalability in past roles
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building from scratch in a startup or scale-up environment
Nice to Have
- Experience in Construction Tech, PropTech, or other asset-heavy industry verticals
- Exposure to platform engineering practices: internal developer portals, golden paths, self-service infrastructure
