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About the Role

Anaplan's Infrastructure Services team is seeking an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead the team responsible for managing, scaling, and optimizing our production OpenStack private cloud environment. This role is crucial for ensuring the high availability, security, and agility of our platform, which supports Anaplan's internal engineering teams and customers.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and expand a team of Infrastructure Engineers responsible for the operational excellence, scaling, and maintenance of our production OpenStack private cloud across multiple global regions.
• Define and execute the ongoing engineering strategy for our production private cloud, focusing on reliability, capacity management, and performance optimisation.
• Communicate effectively with teams involved in service delivery to facilitate information flow.
• Foster a collaborative culture emphasizing operational maturity, automation, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee the development and execution of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management using tools such as Terraform, Python, Juju, and GitHub.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders across the organisation to ensure private cloud services align with business goals and SLAs.
• Manage and mentor team members, providing career development planning, coaching, and performance management.
• Drive initiatives to optimise hardware utilisation and improve system performance across our physical data centres.
• Leverage emerging AI tooling and frameworks to enhance the management, automation, and operations of our infrastructure environments.
• Promote and uphold best practices in private cloud security, high availability, and scalability.
• Evaluate new infrastructure technologies and vendor offerings to continually evolve the Anaplan Private Cloud stack.

Requirements

• Extensive managerial experience in a high-growth environment, specifically running production data centres or private cloud infrastructure at scale.
• Proven ability to lead diverse and distributed teams of technical professionals in a 24/7 large-scale infrastructure environment.
• Strong technical foundation in operating production private cloud services (OpenStack), hypervisors (KVM), and bare-metal provisioning (MAAS/Ironic), coupled with a solid understanding of container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Experience with modern automation, configuration management, and DevOps practices (Terraform, Python, Ansible, Juju, Bash).
• Experience with infrastructure observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki), security best practices, and infrastructure cost management.
• Adept in stakeholder management, capable of influencing outcomes and communicating technical details to a non-technical audience.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and organisational skills.
• Experience managing teams in an agile environment.
• Leadership in large-scale, production private cloud environments (OpenStack).
• Managing senior engineering resources and infrastructure lifecycles.
• Supporting Kubernetes/containerised workloads on top of private cloud infrastructure.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and configuration management.
• Production hardware management, private cloud architectures, and operational resilience strategies.

Skills

• OpenStack
• KVM
• MAAS/Ironic
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• Python
• Ansible
• Juju
• Bash
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Loki
• AI tooling and frameworks

Location

• Global

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior
• Managerial

Education Level

• Relevant degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Master's degree in a relevant discipline (preferred)

About the Company

• Anaplan is a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through its leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform.
• Our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50, including Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer.
• Our Winning Culture champions diversity of thought and ideas, leadership, achieving ambitious goals, and celebrating wins.
• We are supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, values-based and disciplined in execution.

Equal Opportunity

• We believe attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering an inclusive culture strengthens our business.
• DEIB improves our workforce, enhances trust with our partners and customers, and drives business success.
• We believe in a hiring and working environment where all people are respected and valued, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes people unique.
• We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day!
• We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment.