Join our team at the Guardian and be a part of a diverse and inclusive global organisation that delivers fearless, investigative journalism, and holds power to account. Our team of award-winning journalists, cutting‑edge commercial professionals, and industry‑leading digital experts are committed to making a difference and represent a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives. We offer a challenging and exciting environment for career development, with a focus on training, growth and fostering an inclusive culture.
About the role
- Support a group of developers in their technical and personal development, acting as their primary point of contact, providing the developers with regular feedback and guidance.
- Coaching developers on areas for development, celebrating their achievements and recognising their strengths.
- Demonstrating your experience and knowledge as a developer with a variety of experience across domains and technologies, including your experience and interest in DevOps and migrations.
- Communicating your team’s goal and vision, and how that relates to the wider organisation.
- Ensuring the team collaborates with the Product and Engineering department to migrate services to the new platform and that the department is informed about the work that the team is doing.
- Prioritising work to ensure the team stays effective.
- Ensuring the team has the right balance between product delivery and technical maintenance.
- Actively participate in the engineering management team and shape practices to improve the wider department, including recruitment, mentoring and evolving our development practices.
About you
- Experienced people manager, committed to supporting your line reports and their career development and building effective, inclusive teams.
- Experience of working within the DevOps, platform engineering or Site Reliability Engineering space.
- You have an understanding of cloud‑native architecture and modern DevOps tooling.
- Demonstrated examples of driving improvements to the reliability, observability and/or maintenance of services through the use of tooling and modern best practices.
- You are interested in contributing to the Developer Experience stream’s long term strategy.
- Familiarity with the team’s tech stack, including AWS and at least one of the team’s coding languages (e.g. Typescript, Scala, Go).
We actively encourage applications from groups traditionally underrepresented in the UK media.
We operate in a hybrid environment working 3 days a week from our offices in Kings Cross and 2 days a week remotely.
The salary for new Senior Engineering Managers at the Guardian is £112,000 per year.
Benefits at the Guardian
You’ll have 30 days of annual leave per year (plus bank holidays) with the option to purchase an additional 5 days. Our pension scheme is generous; if you contribute 5% then we will contribute 8‑12% (depending on your age). We believe in giving back, which is why employees are given 2 volunteering days annually and the option of payroll giving. Season ticket loans are also available.
You are entitled to private healthcare, life cover, income protection, and eye tests. You can also opt in to dental insurance.
We have enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave policies in place. We also support our employees by offering an IVF, menopause, baby loss, and trans equality policy.
Learning and development
We encourage personal and professional growth. Employees have access to a broad range of tools and solutions, and we are happy to support the pursuit of professional qualifications through vocational courses and apprenticeships.
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