Cloud Platform Engineering Manager

Legal Counsel - 12 month FTC at Rightmove Greenhouse; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Rightmove is seeking a Platform Engineering Manager for Cloud Foundations in London with a hybrid work arrangement (2 days in office). You will lead a team responsible for cloud platforms, infrastructure, security governance, and FinOps, delivering reliable, scalable services at scale.

The role blends leadership with hands-on cloud operations, platform engineering, and governance, reporting to the Head of Technology Operations. Strong experience in product-led tech environments is desirable.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in cloud operations and platform engineering management.
• Strong hands-on experience with large cloud-based environments and modern ops tooling.
• Familiarity with security governance and FinOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide cloud platform strategy and roadmap aligned to business goals.
• Lead a team delivering reliable, secure, and scalable platform services.
• Oversee incident management, DR planning, and cost governance.
• Mentor engineers and foster an inclusive, high-performance culture.

Skills

Cloud operations

Platform leadership

GKE/Kubernetes

CI/CD

Security & IAM

DevOps tooling

Tools

GKE

Service mesh

Load balancers

CDN/WAF

Kafka

Elasticsearch

Job description

Rightmove is seeking a Platform Engineering Manager for Cloud Foundations in London with a hybrid work arrangement (2 days in office). You will lead a team responsible for cloud platforms, infrastructure, security governance, and FinOps, delivering reliable, scalable services at scale.

The role blends leadership with hands-on cloud operations, platform engineering, and governance, reporting to the Head of Technology Operations. Strong experience in product-led tech environments is desirable.