At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and develop a talented team of platform engineers to enhance cloud services.
- Company: Established tech business focused on innovation and growth.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, leadership opportunities, and a culture of trust and improvement.
- Other info: Join a dynamic environment with a focus on continuous improvement and customer experience.
- Why this job: Shape the future of cloud platforms while empowering your team.
- Qualifications: Proven leadership in platform engineering and strong Azure expertise.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
We are working with an established technology business that is looking for an experienced
Platform Engineering Manager to lead and develop its cloud platform engineering function.
This is a senior leadership role combining people management, platform-as-a-product thinking and strong Azure engineering credibility .
You will lead a team of experienced platform engineers, shape the internal cloud platform strategy and create a culture of ownership, trust and continuous improvement.
The role is not focused on being the most hands‑on engineer in the team.
Your impact will come through developing people, setting the technical direction and ensuring the platform genuinely improves the experience of engineering and delivery teams.
Key responsibilities
- Lead, coach and develop a team of senior platform engineers
- Build a high‑trust, high‑ownership engineering culture
- Own the vision, roadmap and value proposition for the internal cloud platform
- Embed a genuine platform-as-a-product approach
- Treat engineering and delivery teams as internal customers
- Establish effective feedback loops and improve the platform based on user needs
• Set the direction for Azure platform services, including
- CI/CD enablement
- Infrastructure as Code
- Identity and access controls
- Observability
- Vulnerability scanning
- Backup and disaster recovery
- Ensure platform services are self‑service, secure, reliable and easy to adopt
- Own platform reliability, incident management, SLOs, SLAs and operational performance
- Improve cloud security, resilience, performance and cost optimisation
- Promote automation, policy‑as‑code and scalable engineering guardrails
- Work closely with engineering, security, architecture and delivery leaders
- Set the technical standard and lead important architecture and design decisions
Experience required
- Proven experience leading and developing a team of platform, cloud or Dev Ops engineers
- Strong people leadership, coaching and performance management experience
- Experience building high‑performing, autonomous engineering teams
- Experience owning an internal platform, cloud service or technical product
- Strong understanding of platform-as-a-product principles
- Deep technical credibility within
- Microsoft Azure
- Strong experience with
- Infrastructure as Code
- Experience with CI/CD, cloud landing zones, observability and automation
- Experience owning production services, including incident management and reliability improvements
- Strong understanding of SLOs, SLAs and operational service ownership
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders across engineering, security and architecture
- Comfortable making complex technical and architectural trade‑off decisions
- Strong focus on outcomes, customer experience and continuous improvement
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced platform engineering leader to shape the future of a growing cloud platform function while developing a talented engineering team.
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