Engineering Manager (with DevOps background)

Help scale the infrastructure behind a real-time iGaming platform serving 150M+ players worldwide while leading our SRE and Platform Engineering teams.

ABOUT PATRIANNA

At Patrianna, we build a high-performance B2B platform for the global iGaming industry, enabling partners to launch and scale digital gaming products across multiple international markets. Our platform serves as the foundation for multiple gaming brands, providing the core systems that power gameplay, integrations, and platform capabilities across different markets.

We operate in a fast-moving scale-up environment where impact matters more than process for its own sake. Teams are trusted to take ownership of the systems they build and the outcomes they deliver.

Our engineering culture is built around a few core principles:

• Pragmatic execution: We focus on solving meaningful engineering problems and delivering reliable systems without unnecessary bureaucracy;
• Clear ownership and accountability: Teams operate within defined responsibilities and leadership structures that ensure decisions are made and outcomes are delivered;
• Technical depth matters: We value engineers and managers who understand their systems deeply and make thoughtful technical decisions;
• Direct communication: We address problems openly, challenge assumptions, and resolve issues quickly.

We believe strong engineering leadership starts with technical credibility and ownership of outcomes.

AI-DRIVEN ENGINEERING CULTURE

We are actively building an AI-driven engineering organization with a clear and deliberate stance: artificial intelligence is a core part of how we build and deliver software — not an experiment, not a trend, and not an optional add-on.
AI is embedded into our engineering workflows, from system design and prototyping to refactoring, testing, and code review. We expect engineers to be fully comfortable working in AI-driven environments and to treat AI as a primary productivity multiplier. Strong engineering judgment, architectural ownership, and accountability remain essential—AI amplifies our engineers, it doesn’t replace responsibility for technical decisions.

THE ROLE

We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead our DevOps function across two specialized engineering teams: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Platform Engineering.

The SRE team is focused on production reliability, availability, observability, incident management, operational excellence, and continuously improving the resilience of our systems.

The Platform Engineering team works on larger strategic initiatives that evolve our infrastructure and engineering platform — improving scalability, automation, developer experience, deployment capabilities, infrastructure architecture, and operational efficiency.

You will be responsible for ensuring both teams have clear roadmaps, well-defined priorities, realistic commitments, and strong execution. You will create the structure and engineering practices necessary for teams to deliver complex infrastructure initiatives predictably while maintaining the reliability of a rapidly growing production platform.

This is not a coordination-only management role.

We expect our DevOps Engineering Manager to have deep technical expertise and remain close to the technology. You should be capable of understanding infrastructure architecture in depth, challenging technical decisions, reviewing proposed solutions, troubleshooting complex production problems, and working hands-on with the platform when necessary.

You will combine the technical depth of a senior DevOps/Platform engineer with strong engineering and operational management, delivery, and people leadership skills.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

Management & Delivery:

• Own the DevOps roadmap and delivery outcomes – establish clear roadmaps across SRE and Platform Engineering, translate priorities into concrete initiatives and commitments, and ensure teams deliver against realistic timelines;
• Drive predictable execution – establish effective planning and execution practices, track progress against commitments, identify delivery risks early, manage dependencies, and ensure clear ownership of initiatives;
• Lead SRE and Platform Engineering – provide leadership across both operational reliability and longer-term platform development, balancing immediate production needs with strategic infrastructure improvements;
• Own people management – manage and develop DevOps engineers, including performance reviews, career development, compensation and promotion input, hiring, team structure, and handling performance concerns when needed;
• Partner with engineering teams – work closely with Engineering Managers, Team Leads, and engineers across the organization to understand infrastructure needs, resolve systemic problems, and ensure the platform enables rather than blocks product delivery.

Technical Leadership:

• Provide hands-on technical leadership – stay …