Engineering Manager, Risk Ledger
Platform, Enablement
£110-135k
+ EMI equity
1+ day a week in office
Supply chain cybersecurity provider
Open for applications
Supply chain cybersecurity provider
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£110-135k
+ EMI equity
1+ day a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To secure the global supply chain.
Role
Who you are
- Hands-on experience in platform engineering, DevOps or SRE, including running production systems at scale
- Strong production experience with AWS and Kubernetes/Docker
- Infrastructure-as-code experience (for example Terraform or CloudFormation) and modern CI/CD practice
- Experience owning reliability: incident management, SLOs, observability, performance and capacity planning
- Security-minded design and a working understanding of cloud security and compliance
- Solid grounding in relational databases (Postgres/SQL) and asynchronous messaging
- Enough familiarity with Go and our wider stack to engage credibly in design reviews
- A track record of managing engineers or teams, ideally platform or infrastructure teams
- Clear communication with senior and non-technical stakeholders on capacity, constraints and risk
- Motivation by the growth and success of your people
Desirable
- Experience treating a platform as an internal product, with measurable developer-experience outcomes
- Familiarity with Team Topologies and the DORA metrics
- Experience working with Product on prioritisation across both platform and feature work
What the job involves
- You’ll lead Enablement, our platform group, which owns the infrastructure, delivery pipelines and reliability practices every engineering team builds on
- You’ll also work closely with Expansion, the group building new features and product specs, so the platform speeds up feature delivery and product ambitions are grounded in what the platform can safely support
- Our core stack is Go, AWS and Vue.js, built cloud-native with modern design principles
- Set technical direction and a roadmap for platform, DevOps and SRE work, and prioritise it against feature demand
- Treat the platform as a product: understand what internal teams need, measure adoption and satisfaction, and invest where it removes the most friction
- Improve CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code and developer tooling to cut lead times and operational toil
- Make sound trade-offs on scalability, security, cost and resilience in AWS, and own the platform’s cloud spend
- Own SLOs, error budgets and observability across the platform and the services that run on it
- Lead incident response and on-call practices, and run blameless post-incident reviews that lead to real change
- Build security-minded design into platform defaults, working with security and compliance, which matters given the sensitive data our customers entrust to us
- Partner with the Expansion team lead and Product Managers so platform capacity and constraints are visible in planning
- Balance technical investment against new build, and communicate trade-offs on capacity and risk clearly to senior and non-technical stakeholders
- Use team charters (Team APIs) to define Enablement’s mission, interaction modes and boundaries with stream-aligned teams
- Coach and develop engineers, and build a culture of constructive feedback and psychological safety
- Lead hiring and retention for platform and SRE roles
- Lead complex cross-team projects such as migrations and platform changes, and guide teams through technical and organisational change
- Work with the Head of Engineering and Principal Engineers to mature engineering practices across technology, people and process
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Risk Ledger was founded with the goal to shift the way organisations deal with cybersecurity and information management in the supply chain. Through its platform, Risk Ledger is marking a turning point in the process of discovering, measuring and then mitigating security risks for companies, their clients and their suppliers. Risk Ledger is trying to lower the number of data breaches experienced by companies and consumers as a consequence of supply chain attacks on a global level.
According to research, over 60% of organisations have suffered a data breach originating in the supply chain with fines inevitably following. Mainstream risk assurance methods are no longer be able to effectively detect and mitigate the growing risk associated with more complex and more global supply chains. SMEs are also generally less resilient to security attacks than multinational corporations due to smaller budgets and teams; over 50,000 SMEs in the UK could collapse after a successful cyber attack.
Risk Ledger has helped customers collect supplier data up to 70% faster than before and reduced per-supplier costs by up to 90%. Its challenge now is to provide integrations with different tools and, by doing so, turn Risk Ledger into a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2023
$8.4m
SERIES A
Oct 2021
$2.8m
SEED
Total funding: $13.7m
Company benefits
- Generous EMI equity package
- Enhanced family (parental) leave - gender-neutral policy, 12 weeks paid leave
- Comprehensive Private Healthcare covering both physical and mental well-being
- 28 days holiday (plus bank holidays!)
- Additional 30 days of unpaid leave per year to use as you wish
- £500 WFH budget
- Flexible hybrid working
Company values
- Communicate
- Always be learning
- Be honest
- Simple is best
- Aim high
- Find solutions, be pragmatic
Company HQ
Shoreditch, London
Articles
Leadership
Haydn Brooks
(CEO)Previously a Consultant in Cyber Security/Risk at KPMG & Deloitte. Also worked as Information Security Manager at Secgate.
Daniel Saul
(CTO)Started Risk Ledger after graduating from UCL, where he studied Electronic Engineering with Computer Science.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Risk Ledger
India Renziehausen (Customer Success Lead)
- We're proud to come from all walks of life
- Continuing to build on strong foundations, each and every person at Risk Ledger consciously and intentionally holds themselves accountable to help create a truly special environment to work in. One where everyone can feel safe and connected to their colleagues.
- A community where you can embrace your authentic self everyday, even the bad or hard ones. Where your uniqueness and diversity of thought - through both career and life experiences - are seen, celebrated and valued.
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