Engineering Team Manager - Hybrid Infrastructure & OT

About the role

Heidelberg Materials is looking for an Engineering Team Manager for Hybrid Infrastructure & OT in Brno. You will lead an international team of about 13 engineers in Infrastructure & Operations, reporting to the Head of Platform Engineering, with most of the team based in Brno. The team supports business-critical infrastructure across more than 50 countries, covering hybrid infrastructure, backup and resilience, and operational technology.

Key responsibilities

• Lead, coach and grow the team, support career development, manage performance, hire talent and prepare for future skill needs.
• Develop engineering skills and steer the team toward modern practices: Infrastructure as Code, automation, AI-native ways of working and reusable, version-controlled solutions.
• Lead the adoption of practical AI capabilities that improve efficiency, problem solving, knowledge management and reduce manual operational work.
• Allocate engineering capacity across third-level operations, including the 24/7 on-call rotation, delivery, security, lifecycle management, automation and continuous improvement.
• Agree priorities and realistic delivery commitments with Product Owners, technical leads and delivery teams, and ensure stable, secure services.
• Resolve capacity and priority conflicts by reallocating resources, adjusting commitments, requesting additional investment or escalating risks.
• Manage personnel costs, external engineering contracts, performance reporting and KPIs, and compliance with security and operational standards.

Required profile

• Proven people leadership in infrastructure, platform, data-centre or operational technology engineering.
• Ability to lead senior technical specialists without being the day-to-day solution owner.
• Experience developing engineering capabilities and supporting teams moving toward Infrastructure as Code, automation and AI-native ways of working.
• Experience balancing operational stability, delivery, security, lifecycle work, technical debt and continuous improvement within finite capacity.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure operations, service levels, incident and problem management, and risk-based decisions.
• Understanding of production and OT environments, including their different approaches to change, risk, availability and operations.
• Stakeholder management across Product Owners, architects, security, finance, vendors and senior management.
• Experience with budgets, external resources, contracts and performance data; professional English.

Required skills

• Beneficial: compute, storage, virtualization, backup and recovery, data-centre infrastructure, edge platforms or OT background.
• Beneficial: Infrastructure as Code, automation frameworks, APIs, scripting, Git workflows and AI in infrastructure engineering.
• Beneficial: highly available services, hybrid infrastructure modernization, lifecycle risk and industrial or plant environments.
• Beneficial: agile planning, Jira backlogs, SLOs and infrastructure lifecycle management.

What we offer

• Hybrid work environment, 7.5-hour workday and 5 weeks of vacation.
• Career track with regular growth talks, coaching and mentoring, and extensive training.
• 4 sick days and 3 days off for volunteering, daily meal contribution, benefit card, pension insurance and mobile phone with company tariff.
• Reserved company parking with lockers, relax area and terrace.