Senior Manager, Platform Engineering

About the role

QOCO Systems, a fast-growing SaaS company serving airlines and MROs, is hiring a Senior Manager, Platform Engineering in Espoo. This is a leadership role reporting directly to the CTO, with real influence over the technical direction of the company. The manager owns the platform foundations on which all other work is built.

Key responsibilities

• Own the roadmap for cloud infrastructure, reliability, observability, security and AI platform foundations.
• Lead two teams: Infrastructure and Customer Integrations, who work as technical specialists on customer delivery projects.
• Run the operations and outcomes of the Infrastructure team and treat reliability as a defined, defended number with clear KPIs.
• Line manage the Customer Integrations engineers and allocate them efficiently across delivery projects.
• Hire, grow and develop the capabilities of both teams, balancing long-term platform strategy with hands-on execution.

Required profile

• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure or platform engineering, hands-on and leading teams of ten and up.
• Proven people leader, performance driven and genuinely caring for people.
• Leadership and stakeholder management across engineering, product and commercial.
• Experience leading SaaS infrastructure through a growth phase.
• Fluent in English, written and spoken.

Required skills

• Cloud-native and platform engineering expertise from an established or high-growth SaaS company.
• Track record of building scalable platforms and driving reliability as a measurable outcome.
• SRE and operational excellence focus; security and reliability by design.
• Understanding of AI platform and infrastructure capabilities.
• Commercial awareness and FinOps experience.
• Modern software delivery practices at scale.

What we offer

• Real ownership and impact in your work, within an experienced, collaborative and international engineering team.
• Performance recognised and rewarded.
• Flexible hours and a hybrid work model.
• Lunch and sport perks, occupational healthcare and free breakfast at the office.