Senior II Engineer

About Us

The Financial Times is one of the worlds leading news organisations globally recognised for its authority integrity and accuracy with a mission to deliver quality information and services worldwide.

At the FT curiosity thrives and ambitious thinking is rewarded. Together we help audiences stay better informed and deepen their understanding of the world around them.

Our Product & Tech teams drive us forward in an ever-evolving digital landscape delivering cutting-edge products to over one million digital subscribers daily. Our growth relies on a diverse dedicated and dynamic group of product tech delivery and data specialists.

With a supportive culture entrepreneurial spirit and opportunities at every turn there are no limits to where your FT career can take you.

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Our commitment to diversity equity and inclusion

We believe in the power of unique perspectives and want all voices in our organisation to be heard respected and valued. A supportive workplace is one where employees feel they can be themselves and operate to their full potential. We are committed to removing barriers for everyone with a focus on addressing those faced by underrepresented groups.

About you:

Your core skill set and expertise is in the site reliability area and youre enthusiastic aboutcontributing to all parts of the process. You are also an experienced people leadercomfortable managing both engineers and managers and motivated by helping others ideal candidate will bring a unique point of view to the work that we do. We firmly believethat diverse perspectives help us create a great product and enhance the team

About the team:

The Cloud Services team includes our cloud infrastructure pre- and post-deploymentservices as well as providing insights into our technology stack helping leaders makeinformed decisions. We are a set of multi-disciplinary teams primarily based in London. Wevalue transparency accountability shared responsibility and teamwork. Were focused onour users and the FTs mission to provide engaging world-class journalism.

What youll work on:

As a Senior Engineer and People Manager in our Cloud Services team you will play apivotal role in shaping evolving and evangelising the services we provide to engineeringteams across the whole organisation. Youll lead technical decision-making championsystem-wide consistency to drive the delivery of robust mission-critical engineeringcapabilities that support our product teams to move quickly adopt shared standards andFocus on delivering value while we take care of the your technical responsibilities youll also provide people leadership at multiplelevels: managing individual contributors directly supporting and coaching other managersand building an environment where teams can thrive. Youll balance hands-on technicalInvolvement with creating a supportive inclusive and high-performing culture that developsfuture leaders and sustains long-term organisational success.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Managing and coaching a multi-level team that includes both individual contributorsand people managers.
• Supporting and developing managers helping them grow their leadership capabilitiesand scale their teams effectively.
• Driving a culture of accountability collaboration and continuous improvement acrossthe group.
• Championing diversity equity and inclusion in all aspects of team leadership.
• Representing your team at a wider organisational level influencing stakeholders andaligning technical and people priorities.
• Fostering knowledge-sharing across teams and encouraging innovation in how we work.
• Handling relationships with vendors and contractors ensuring quality deliveryknowledge transfer and value for the organisation.
• Embedding agile ways of working across your teams ensuring iterative delivery
• continuous feedback and alignment with business outcomes.

Our technology:

Heres a list of things we use a lot. Its not exhaustive but it gives you a taste of what our stack

and tools look like:

• Python; Terraform; Excalidraw; and a bit too much YAML
• Fastly; Tyk; Amazon Route 53; Amazon ECS
• Grafana; Prometheus; OpenTelemetry; Splunk

We dont expect you to have worked with all of these; its a bonus if you have. To find out more you can get an insight into how we work from ourFT Product & Technology Medium Publication

Leadership experience were looking for:

• Experience managing both individual contributors and other managers ideally acrossmultiple teams or disciplines.
• A track record of coaching managers developing future leaders and creatingsuccession plans.
• Comfort working with contractors and external vendors integrating them effectivelyand ensuring they deliver value.
• Strong communication and influencing skills to align teams and stakeholders across an organisation.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and experience guiding and coaching teams initerative delivery

.Characteristics we value:

• Attention to detail and common sense
• A natural coach and mentor able to inspire trust and help others grow
• Experience building and nurturing inclusive high-performing teams
• Enjoy learning and teaching whether that be pair programming lightning talks good documentation leading workshops or mentoring more junior colleagues and managers
• Strong communication and influencing skills able to align across multiple stakeholders
• Comfort working with contractors and external partners and integrating them effectively into team culture and delivery
• A collaborative and iterative mindset with an appreciation for agile practices that enable teams to deliver value quickly and adapt to change.

Whats in it for you Our benefits

Our benefits vary by location but we are committed to providing best-in-class perks across all our offices. These include generous annual leave medical cover inclusive parental leave packages subsidised gym memberships and opportunities to give back to the community. Full details of our benefits are available here.

Weve embraced a 50% hybrid working model (averaging two to three days onsite) that fosters trust and remote adaptability while encouraging in-person camaraderie and peer learning. Additionally we are open to accommodating specific flexible working pattern requests for all roles where feasible.

Accessibility:

We are a disability confident employer and Valuable 500 signatory.

Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments/personalisation as part of the application process or to enable you to attend an interview. If you would like to discuss your requirements or have any questions email and a member of our team will be happy to help.

Further information:

At the FT we embrace innovation and the use of technology and appreciate that individuals may leverage AI tools as part of their job application process. Whilst we are happy for you to use AI to assist with your application it is essential that all information provided is authentic and accurately represents your skills experience and qualifications.