At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead engineering teams to deliver secure, high-quality software using modern AI technologies.
- Company: Join a remote-first tech leader in cybersecurity with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Flexible remote work, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Diverse and inclusive culture with a commitment to employee wellbeing and community support.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by shaping the future of our X-Ops Platform.
- Qualifications: Extensive engineering leadership experience and strong stakeholder management skills.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Director of Engineering to lead our X-Ops Platform organization. The leader will coordinate with stakeholders to align business priorities and support engineering teams in delivering secure, high-quality software at scale using modern AI technologies. You will set strategy and standards for how we build, run, and improve our platforms and operational tooling across the engineering lifecycle - partnering closely with Product, Security, IT, and Engineering leaders.
You will lead and grow multiple teams and managers, fostering strong engineering practices and a culture of ownership. You will collaborate with senior stakeholders across Engineering, Product, Security, IT, and Finance to ensure platform roadmaps and operational priorities support company goals. This role is based in Abingdon UK with remote working and teams also in India and Hungary. Periodic in-person leadership and team collaboration and travel are needed.
- Lead, coach, and develop engineering leaders (directors, managers and senior ICs), building high-performing teams with clear ownership and strong engineering culture.
- Partner with product engineering and threat research leaders to improve productivity and delivery throughput across the software and service lifecycle.
- Drive cloud efficiency and cost transparency (FinOps): budgeting, forecasting, unit economics, and optimisation initiatives in partnership with Finance and Engineering.
- Establish platform governance and standards (architecture, security, compliance, data handling, vendor/tooling choices) while enabling appropriate team autonomy.
- Measure impact and promote best practices that improve quality, speed, and operational effectiveness while protecting sensitive data.
- Communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs clearly to executive stakeholders.
Significant engineering leadership experience, including leading leaders and scaling teams in a platform, infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or operations-focused environment. Strong track record of building reliable, secure platforms and improving developer productivity through pragmatic, outcome-driven investment. Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills, with the ability to align across Engineering, Product, Security, IT, and Finance. Commercial and financial acumen, including experience with cloud cost management, budgeting, and performance metrics. Commitment to responsible AI adoption—setting guardrails, enabling teams, and demonstrating measurable improvements in productivity and quality. Experience building and operating platforms at scale in a SaaS environment, ideally with multi-region cloud deployment. Experience with organisational design, operating cadence, and change management in a complex engineering organisation. Exposure to FinOps practices and tooling, including unit cost models and cost allocation/chargeback approaches.
Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach. While we are a remote first organization, applicants must have legal authorization to work in the jurisdiction where the position is posted, without requiring employer sponsorship.
We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants who can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation.
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