Full job descriptionPlatform Engineering ManagerLocation: 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.