Manager, Systems Engineering
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Posted on:
30-10-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Summary:
We are seeking a Manager Systems Engineering to lead our Platform Team focusing on the reliability scalability and efficiency of Clios AWS infrastructure. This is a remote role based in the United Kingdom with occasional in-person collaboration in London.
What your team does:
The Systems Engineering Team is responsible for building and operating the cloud infrastructure and internal developer tools that power Clio products globally.
We ensure our systems are reliable secure and scalable enabling engineering teams to ship software quickly and confidently. Youll lead a distributed team of engineers driving technical excellence while fostering a culture of resilience automation and continuous improvement.
Who you are:
Youre an engineering leader with deep AWS experience a passion for operational excellence and a strong focus on reliability. You embrace SRE principles: reducing toil automating manual tasks managing service-level objectives (SLOs) and improving system observability.
You are equally comfortable mentoring engineers as you are engaging in technical discussions with architects and developers. You thrive in a collaborative distributed environment and are skilled at balancing strategic vision with day-to-day operational needs.
What youll work on:
Define and maintain service-level objectives (SLOs) and error budgets for production systems.
Ensure systems are highly reliable scalable and secure following cloud and SRE best practices.
Partner with Development Security and Product Engineering teams to align infrastructure initiatives with Clios strategic roadmap.
Oversee incident response processes post-mortems and continual improvements to reduce recurrence and mitigate risk.
Drive automation and tooling to reduce manual toil across AWS environments and CI/CD pipelines.
Implement monitoring alerting and observability standards for production and pre-production environments.
Support CI/CD and developer productivity initiatives to improve the local development and deployment experience.
Promote a culture of blameless post-mortems knowledge sharing and proactive risk management.
What you may have:
Proven experience leading platform SRE or systems engineering teams.
Deep knowledge of AWS architecture services and IaC (Terraform preferred).
Experience defining and tracking SLOs SLIs and error budgets.
Growth mindset when it comes to process improvement and new technologies especially AI
Knowledge of incident management and post-mortem culture in SRE environments.
Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems (Buildkite GitHub Actions Azure DevOps).
Strong understanding of Kubernetes containerization and distributed system operations.
Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus Grafana Datadog ELK).
Solid software development skills (Python Go Ruby or Bash).
Excellent leadership communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Serious bonus points if you have:
Experience managing multi-region AWS environments at scale.
Familiarity with service ownership models and on-call rotation practices.
Experience with cost optimization and FinOps principles in cloud environments.
Previous hands-on experience implementing runbooks automation frameworks and self-healing systems.
What you will find here:
Compensation is one of the main components of Clios Total Rewards Program. We have developed a series of programs and processes to ensure we are creating fair and competitive pay practices that form the foundation of our human and high-performing culture.
Some highlights of our Total Rewards program include:
Competitive equitable salary with top-tier health benefits and dental coverage
Hybrid work environment with expectation for local Clions to be in office minimum 2 days per week on our Anchor Days.
Flexible time off policy
Pension contribution
Clioversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3 5 7 and 10 years
The full salary range* for this role is 88000 to 110000 to 132000 note salary bands may differ based on location and local currency. Additionally benefit offerings may differ depending on the employees location.
*We aim to hire all candidates between the minimum and the midpoint of the full salary range. We reserve the midpoint to the maximum of the salary band for internal employees who demonstrate sustained high performance and impact at Clio. The final offer amount for this role will be dependent on individual experience and skillset of the candidate.
Diversity Inclusion Belonging and Equity (DIBE) & Accessibility
Our team shows up as their authentic selves and are united by our mission. We are dedicated todiversity equity and inclusion. We pride ourselves in building and fostering an environment where our teams feel included valued and enabled to do the best work of their careers wherever they choose to log in from. We believe that different perspectives skills backgrounds and experiences result in higher-performing teams and better innovation. We are committed to equal employment and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
Clio provides accessibility accommodations during the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodation please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.
Learn more about our culture at We only communicate with candidates through official @ email addresses.
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Hospitality Experience
- Go
- Management Experience
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Mechanical Engineering
- Team Management
- Leadership Experience
- Mentoring
- Distributed Systems
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