Platform Engineering Manager

Platform Engineering Manager

Full-Time No working from home possible
AutoRek
Description
About AutoRek:
AutoRek is a financial data management platform enabling companies to streamline and automate complex and high-volume data management and controls processes. Our customers range from innovative FinTech start-ups to many of the UK and the world’s largest and established banks, asset managers and insurance companies. Digital data and financial transaction volumes are growing exponentially, this combined with increasing regulatory obligations is driving the demand for improved efficiencies, better control, and management of risk across the financial services industry. The AutoRek platform meets these demands and more and that is why we continue to be a leading player in the market.
AutoRek are seeking to augment its Platform Engineering team with a dedicated manager as we seek to improve and professionalise the development of this team in a year of planned expansion. This team is <12 months old, having formed as a carve-out from our Cloud Operations team to allow dedicated focus on the engineering of our Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) estate, utilising technologies such as Terraform and Ansible, targeting workloads in Azure.

Requirements
What We’re Looking For:
  • An empathetic and supportive manager, who keeps team wellbeing front & centre in their decision-making
  • Driven to solve problems, figure out best-fit solutions, and work collaboratively with a “best idea wins” approach
  • Continuously seeking improvement, with an automation focus – a “why click this every time when I can script it once” mindset?
  • Able to manage conflicting priorities
  • Handling escalations & high-pressure situations with confidence

Azure:
  • Ability to demonstrate deep technical mastery of concepts and services
  • Minimum 3-5 years’ experience
Line management:
  • Particular emphasis on management of a technical team with responsibility for a backlog of work delivered using Agile practices
Scripting:
  • PowerShell/Bash
Automation tooling:
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Azure DevOps
Ticket management:
  • ITIL
  • Familiarity with service desk tooling
System administration:
  • Azure Active Directory/Entra ID
  • Active Directory
  • Windows Server 201x
  • Linux – CentOS, AlmaLinux
Version control:
  • Git


AutoRek

Contact Details:

AutoRek Recruitment Team