AI Cloud Platform Engineering Manager

Radiant; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Private medical insurance via Bupa

Cycle to Work Scheme

Gympass membership

Job summary

Radiant is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a nine-person team building and operating our AI cloud platform. You will align with product, SRE, security, and other teams while shaping delivery and technical direction.

You will hire and coach engineers, own end-to-end delivery, and foster strong engineering practices. Experience with cloud platforms, distributed systems, and AI infrastructure is highly valued.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams building cloud platforms, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• Proven track record in people management, hiring, coaching, and performance development.
• Strong technical background with ability to contribute to architecture discussions.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of around nine engineers across software, platform, DevOps, and test.
• Own delivery end to end: planning, prioritisation, quality, and operational readiness.
• Partner with Product to translate priorities into technical plans and milestones.
• Provide architectural leadership on reliability, scalability, and trade-offs.
• Set engineering practices for design, testing, observability, and incident learning.
• Hire, onboard, and retain high-performing engineers; expect significant hiring activity in year one.
• Support career development through feedback, coaching, and progression planning.

Skills

People leadership

Cloud infrastructure

Architecture & design

Delivery ownership

Distributed systems

GPUs / AI infra (bonus)

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Git

Job description

Radiant is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a nine-person team building and operating our AI cloud platform. You will align with product, SRE, security, and other teams while shaping delivery and technical direction.

You will hire and coach engineers, own end-to-end delivery, and foster strong engineering practices. Experience with cloud platforms, distributed systems, and AI infrastructure is highly valued.