Platform Engineering Manager

Platform Engineering Manager Location: Hybrid / Remote

Salary: Competitive

Employment type: Permanent

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:


• Landing zones


• 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 DevOps 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

Experience with Team Topologies, Azure Well-Architected Framework, policy-as-code or internal developer platforms would be highly beneficial.

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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