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About Immersive Labs
Immersive Labs is the leader in people-centric cyber resilience. We help organizations continuously assess, build, and prove their cyber workforce resilience for teams across the entire organization, from front-line cybersecurity and development teams to Board-level executives. We provide realistic simulations and hands-on cybersecurity labs to evaluate individual and team capabilities and decision-making against the latest threats.
[https://www.immersivelabs.com/why-immersive-labs>
Where we are now
Immersive Labs was founded in 2017, from a cargo container in Bristol, UK we’ve grown to over 300 employees globally, announced funding of more than £150 million and been voted a Best place to work for the last 3 years running! We are trusted by the world’s largest organizations including KPMG, Sophos and the NHS to measure, map to risk, and optimize the human cyber abilities of their entire workforce.
[https://careers.immersivelabs.com/our-story/>
We encourage people of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to maintaining an inclusive, supportive place for you to be you and do your very best work.
Senior Manager, Engineering
Due to growth within our Engineering division we now seek an experienced Senior Engineering Manager into an exciting time of evolution for our company. This role focuses on people management and process ownership, supporting our innovative engineering teams.
The Engineering Manager is not part of the software development teams but plays a crucial role in guiding, mentoring, and managing our engineers and ensuring efficient processes.
This role will contribute massively towards this future success, not just of our products but of our engineering teams. You could be instrumental in shaping the future careers of a talented and passionate team of Immersers, and that’s a pretty impressive legacy to leave behind.
If you have an interest in and passion for the AWS platform, background in leading and shaping dynamic Engineering teams, helping people reach their full potential and flourish within a technical environment then we would love to have you on board as we enter an exciting next phase of our growth.
Your main responsibilities (we're scaling fast, so these may change as we grow):
- People Management: Manage a team of 9-12 direct reports, including Software Engineers, Data Engineers, and QA Analysts/Test Engineers.
- Process Ownership: Oversee and refine engineering processes, ensuring alignment with our Shape Up product development model.
- Dynamic Re-teaming: Facilitate the dynamic re-teaming of personnel into new mission teams at the beginning of each cycle, ensuring smooth transitions and effective team dynamics, in alignment with the Shape Up model.
- Collaboration: Work closely with Product Managers, and leads from Customer Success, SOC, and People departments to ensure project success and alignment with business goals.
- Mentorship and Development: Provide guidance, mentorship, and career development support to team members.
- Performance Management: Conduct regular performance reviews, provide constructive feedback, and develop performance improvement plans if needed.
- Hiring: Assist in the recruitment and onboarding of new team members, ensuring a high standard of technical and cultural fit.
You should apply if you have (we know it’s tough, but please try to avoid the confidence gap. You don’t have to match all the listed requirements exactly to be considered for this role):
- You may have got the gist from above, but leadership is crucial to this role and therefore you will come with extensive experience as an Engineering Manager or similar leadership role in a tech environment and have a passion for leading individuals and teams to continuously improve
- Strong understanding of software development processes and methodologies, particularly experience with the Shape Up model is a plus.
- Excellent people management skills, with a track record of effectively managing and developing a diverse team. You will love seeing others achieve and deliver on their objectives
- Strong process management skills, with the ability to identify inefficiencies and implement improvements.
- Familiarity with key components of our tech stack: Ruby on Rails (RoR), ReactJS, NodeJS.
- You are a natural communicator and approachable with excellent collaboration skills.
Immersive Labs’ growth has been fuelled by our values that underpin everything we do, here's how they relate to this role:
- Driven - We are innovators and market-creators, constantly moving forward to achieve results in support of our mission.
- Inclusive - We are passionate about creating an environment of inclusion and respect for our employees, customers and partners, everyone has opportunities to thrive.
- Customer Obsessed - We seek to develop deep relationships with our customers to help them achieve their business outcomes.
- One Team - We are a talented global team working together to achieve our vision.
If you would like to read more about what you can expect from our recruitment process, you can visit our dedicated interview process page.
As well as an inclusive, supportive place for you to be you. We offer an extensive range of benefits so you can do your very best work:
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Time off, flexible and remote working so you can work when is best for you, includes 25 days annual leave + 2 volunteering days and birthday half day
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Look after your family and yourself with enhanced parental leave, mindfulness groups, critical illness cover, pension, health plan and more
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Career and learning development through the platform and our ‘Learn Anything’ fund
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Recognition & Rewards for doing great work and living our values and behaviours
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Informal or formal flexible working options, e.g. flexible start and finish times, reduced hours, job share, remote working
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We’re a sociable, tight-knit team with monthly socials, sports clubs and quarterly parties. Our socials have included everything from pottery painting and paper mask making, to movie nights and escape rooms
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When you do visit the UK hub getting there is easy: we’re based in the centre of Bristol, just a 10 minute walk from the train station. We also offer railcard loan and cycle scheme to buy a new bike
Find out more at [https://careers.immersivelabs.com>
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