At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.
What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers’ success and to our Winning Culture.
Our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies who rely on our best-in-class platform.
Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals, and we love celebrating our wins – big and small.
Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, values-based and disciplined in execution, you’ll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and let’s build what’s next - together!
The Opportunity:
At Anaplan, our Infrastructure Services team provides the foundational infrastructure that powers our global data centres. We operate the Anaplan Private Cloud a mature, production-grade Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform built on OpenStack. We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead the team responsible for managing, scaling, and optimising this extensive private cloud environment. With your guidance, the team will ensure our production platform delivers the high availability, security, and unparalleled agility required by Anaplan’s internal engineering teams and customers.
Your Impact
- 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, ensuring it optimally supports our internal consumers and Kubernetes workloads.
- Communicate effectively; reach out to other teams involved in the delivery of your services and help information to flow between teams.
- Foster a collaborative culture that emphasises 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 (including SRE, SecOps, and Product Engineering) 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.
Your Skills
- 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 andcommunicating technical details to a non-technical audience.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and organisational skills, with an ability to motivate and guide teams towards achieving strict business
and technology goals.
- Relevant degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, and preferably a master’s degree in a relevant discipline.
- Experience managing teams in an agile environment.
Experience with the following is essential:
- 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.
Nice to have:
- Experience with Canonical's ecosystem (Charmed OpenStack, MAAS, Juju, Landscape).
- Deep understanding of distributed storage (Ceph, Swift, Cinder) and software-defined networking (Neutron, Open vSwitch, OVN).
- Experience with enterprise container platforms such as Red Hat OpenShift.
Join us at Anaplan to lead a team that provides the core infrastructure for our business, delivering solutions that matter on a global scale.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)
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. Build your career in a place where diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging aren’t just words on paper – this is what drives our innovation, it’s how we connect, and it contributes to what makes us a market leader. 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!
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