About Us
ClearRoute is an engineering consultancy bridging Quality Engineering, Cloud Platforms and Developer Experience. We help enterprises reliably bring high-impact digital products to market faster, cheaper, and safer, working with technology leaders facing complex business challenges.
We take as much pride in our people, culture and work-life balance as we do in making better software. We're not just making better software. We're making the making of software better. Collaborative, entrepreneurial and dedicated to problem solving, we bring the step change our customer need to sustain innovation. Our values challenge us to do the best we can for ClearRoute, our customers and most importantly our team. This is an opportunity for you to build the organisation from the ground up, use your voice to drive change and help transform organisations and problem domains.
Role
About the role
We are looking for a hands‐on Head of Platform Engineering to lead and grow the platform functions for a number of major clients. This is a player‐coach role where you'll set technical direction and line‐manage a team of approximately 12 platform and DevOps engineers, while staying close enough to the work to make architectural calls, unblock your team, and occasionally get into the code yourself.
You will own the reliability, scalability, and developer experience of the clients' core platform, and you'll be a key voice in how we build and operate software as we scale.
Key Responsibilities
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of approximately 12 platform/DevOps engineers, owning hiring, development, and performance.
Set the technical vision and roadmap for platform engineering, balancing long‐term architecture with near‐term delivery.
Stay hands‐on: reviewing designs, pairing on hard problems, and contributing directly when it counts.
Own infrastructure reliability, observability, security posture, and cost efficiency across environments.
Drive improvements to developer experience, CI/CD, and self‐service tooling so product teams ship faster and more safely.
Partner with engineering leadership, product, and security to align platform investment with business priorities.
Establish and uphold standards for incident response, on‐call, and operational excellence.
Advocate for and embed AI‐first thinking across client engagements.
Required Experience
10+ years in software/platform/infrastructure engineering, with a meaningful stretch leading and managing engineers.
Proven experience running a team of comparable size (~10+), including hiring and people development.
Deep, current hands‐on expertise across cloud, either - AWS / GCP / Azure, containers and orchestration (Kubernetes), and infrastructure‐as‐code (Terraform or similar).
Strong grounding in CI/CD, observability, and modern operational practices (SRE principles, SLOs, on‐call).
A track record of scaling platforms and teams without losing technical credibility.
Excellent communicator: able to set direction for engineers and translate technical trade‐offs for non‐technical stakeholders.
Desirable Experience
Familiarity with AI‐enabled engineering practices, LLM tooling, or AI‐augmented delivery models.
Experience with enterprise platform modernisation, cloud migration or digital transformation programmes.
Experience operating in an AI‐first or technology‐forward consultancy environment.
Industry exposure across financial services, energy, public sector and retail environments.
At ClearRoute, we believe diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes, and inclusion creates the conditions for everyone to thrive. We are proud to have built a family friendly working environment and have many employees who have caring responsibilities alongside work. We welcome applications from people who require flexibility and will be happy to discuss needs on an individual basis.
We are committed to fostering a culture where all team members feel respected, supported, and empowered to do their best work. We celebrate individuality and our differences and understand that some differences may mean that you require changes made to the interview process. We are happy to cater to your needs to make the interview accessible, if this is something you require please let us know by emailing us at join@clearroute.io.
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