Platform Engineering Manager

Platform Engineering Manager

Location: Hybrid

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

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.