Allianz Portugal

Engineering Manager (Infrastructure)

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Descrição

Allianz is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead teams responsible for core platform, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and MLOps capabilities that underpin the organisation's data, analytics, and AI ecosystem. In this role, you will lead engineering teams building and operating foundational platforms that enable reliable, secure, and scalable software delivery across the organisation. Your focus will be on people leadership, team development, hiring, organisational scaling, and delivery management, working closely with senior technical leaders who own architecture and technical direction.

You will manage and mentor a diverse engineering organisation spanning Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps, MLOps, Security Engineering, and Infrastructure Engineering. Key responsibilities include driving hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development; overseeing platform reliability, observability, and incident readiness; partnering with technical leaders on cloud platforms and developer tooling; and ensuring teams have the capacity and capabilities to support growing engineering and AI workloads. You'll also foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, continuous learning, and operational excellence whilst balancing strategic platform investments with operational priorities.

This is a full-time permanent position at Allianz Group, one of the world's most trusted insurance and asset management companies. The role offers opportunities for international mobility, career progression, and professional development within a global, inclusive environment that values unity, integrity, and putting customers first.

Competências

  • Kubernetes
  • Cloud-native platform engineering
  • Azure cloud services
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Terraform
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • GitOps
  • GitHub Actions
  • ArgoCD
  • Platform observability
  • Monitoring
  • SLOs
  • SLIs
  • Distributed tracing
  • DevSecOps
  • Security automation
  • FinOps
  • Cloud cost optimisation
  • Workflow orchestration
  • MLOps
  • AI platforms
  • Coaching-oriented leadership
  • Stakeholder management
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Performance management
  • Workforce planning
  • Talent development
  • Hiring and recruitment

Responsabilidades

  • Manage, mentor, and develop a diverse engineering organisation spanning Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps, MLOps, Security Engineering, and Infrastructure Engineering
  • Drive hiring, onboarding, performance management, career development, talent retention, and succession planning
  • Support senior engineers as they grow into technical leadership and subject matter expert roles
  • Own resource planning and workforce strategy across multiple infrastructure disciplines
  • Balance strategic platform investments with operational priorities and service reliability commitments
  • Partner with technical leaders responsible for cloud platforms, developer tooling, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, GitOps, and MLOps capabilities
  • Support the delivery and adoption of engineering golden paths that simplify and standardise software development
  • Drive initiatives that improve platform reliability, operational efficiency, developer productivity, and onboarding experiences
  • Oversee teams responsible for platform reliability, observability, incident readiness, infrastructure automation, and operational processes
  • Support the continuous evolution of security and DevSecOps practices across infrastructure and software delivery pipelines
  • Ensure effective operational planning, service health reporting, change management, and incident coordination
  • Work closely with Engineering Managers, technical leads, delivery teams, security teams, and senior leadership to align priorities and roadmaps
  • Facilitate cross-team planning, dependency management, and continuous improvement initiatives
  • Represent infrastructure and platform engineering in leadership forums and strategic planning discussions
  • Lead structured hiring processes across infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, security, and MLOps disciplines
  • Establish effective assessment frameworks and interview practices that maintain a high hiring bar

Benefícios

  • Large variety of courses and targeted development programs for personal and professional development
  • International mobility and career progression opportunities
  • Work Well programs providing flexibility in planning and arranging for better work-life balance
  • Inclusive workplace where people and performance both matter
  • Opportunities for regular rotation across functions, entities and geographies within Allianz Group

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