Engineering Manager - Platform
First seen by Alion on Nov 5, 2026.
Engineering Manager
Lead and develop a team of Platform and Software Engineers, owning their career growth, performance, wellbeing and team capability, while acting as the senior technical authority.
Total Experience: 7 - 20 years
About this role:
The Engineering Manager is a unique and critical role within WDigital's engineering foundations organisation, part of the Services, Operations and Infrastructure (SOI) division of Group IT. Sitting within a collaborative leadership team, you carry two equally important accountabilities: the direct line management and career development of Platform and Software Engineers, and the senior technical leadership that keeps the team moving forward.
What you'll do:
- Directly manage the career development, performance, wellbeing, and day to day experience of Engineers.
- Work closely with AU Engineering Managers to ensure India-based engineers are effectively integrated into their domain squads.
- Champion a blameless, psychologically safe engineering culture within the India team.
- Manage the capacity and wellbeing of the India-based team, balancing planned engineering work with some third level reactive operational support.
- Act as a senior escalation point for complex or high-severity incidents during India working hours.
Tech Stack:
- GCP, Azure, Kubernetes (GKE/AKS), Terraform, Go, Python, Bash, Dynatrace, Splunk, New Relic.
What you'll bring:
- A minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in platform engineering, software development, or distributed systems roles.
- Demonstrated experience directly managing or leading a team of engineers.
- Deep experience in resilient cloud solution design and distributed systems architecture (GCP and Azure).
- Strong experience with enterprise-scale Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud-native tooling.
- Strong scripting proficiency in at least one language (Go, Python, or Bash).
What you'll experience:
- Be a part of Australia's largest retailer.
- Constant mentoring and training provided.
- Generous performance based bonus.
- 20 days annual leave.
- A flexible approach to work.
- Premium insurance coverage for you and your dependants.
Skills
Engineering Management, DevOps, Site Reliability, Kubernetes, Terraform, Azure, Python, Bash Scripting, Google Cloud Platform, Golang