At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and develop a high-performing platform engineering team while driving operational excellence.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking tech company focused on cloud innovation and team empowerment.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, hybrid work model, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic role with a focus on innovation and team development.
- Why this job: Shape the future of cloud services and foster a culture of collaboration and trust.
- Qualifications: Strong leadership skills and experience in platform engineering and Azure technologies.
The predicted salary is between 75000 - 75000 £ per year.
Requirements
- Strong people leadership with a track record of coaching and developing high-performing teams.
- Solid background in platform engineering, architecture, and cloud and infrastructure-as-code technologies.
- A deep understanding of the platform-as-a-product mindset and customer empathy.
- Experience setting boundaries, managing risks, and driving operational excellence within Microsoft Azure.
Responsibilities
- Line-manage, coach, and develop a team of platform engineers, focusing on performance and career growth.
- Foster a safe, high-trust, collaborative environment where engineers feel empowered to learn, experiment, and hold each other to high quality standards.
- Own the platform vision, value proposition, and roadmap based on internal customer needs.
- Champion platform thinking across our organisation so secure and reliable tools are the easiest path for all teams to choose.
- Guide the team in building and evolving a portfolio of cloud services, including landing zones, CI/CD enablement, Ia C patterns, observability, and backup and disaster recovery.
- Curate complexity to actively reduce cognitive load for delivery teams.
- Own production operations of platform services, driving improvements in reliability, security, and cost optimisation via the Azure Well-Architected Framework.
- Establish secure boundaries and governance in Microsoft Azure, balancing developer autonomy with compliance.
- Set and uphold the technical bar for production-grade engineering, arbitrate hard architectural decisions, and lead technical reviews.
- Lead by example on engineering disciplines such as testing, automation, and documentation without needing to be the most prolific contributor of code.
- Technologies
- Azure
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Security
- More
We are seeking a senior, people-first leader to help mature our Cloud Platform Engineering team.
You will build a high-trust culture and empower delivery teams by creating self-service, automated paved roads in Azure that reduce cognitive load and make secure, reliable delivery the easiest choice.
This is a hybrid role with two days per week in the office.
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