Cloud Platform Engineering Manager

Hunter Selection; West Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 69,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus Scheme

Hybrid Working

Job summary

Hunter Selection partners with a West Midlands client seeking a Cloud Platform Engineering Manager. The role provides strategic leadership to an established team, fostering a Platform First mindset while maintaining delivery momentum.

The ideal candidate will combine hands-on cloud experience with architectural judgment to drive roadmaps, platform health, and scalable SaaS capabilities. Hybrid work with regular office presence is offered.

Qualifications

• Experience leading cross-functional engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of platform engineering concepts.
• Experience building and operating SaaS platforms.
• Strategic planning and roadmapping for cloud platforms.
• Azure preferred, other cloud environments considered.
• Architectural understanding and long-term strategy setting.
• Developing new services and capabilities for platforms.
• Delivering reliable, secure, and performant platform improvements.

Responsibilities

• Line management of a cross functional team - covering Infrastructure and Software disciplines.
• Platform as a Product and driving value for internal customers.
• Understanding and appreciation of Cloud Platform Principles.
• Experience enabling teams to go faster safely.
• Azure preferred, other Cloud environments considered.
• Architectural understanding and roadmapping for platform capabilities.
• Setting long term strategy and delivering platform improvements.
• Developing new services and capabilities for scalable platforms.
• Deliver and maintain reliable, secure, and performant platform improvements.

Skills

Azure

Leadership

Platform engineering

Cloud architecture

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

IaC

Job description

Cloud Platform Engineering Manager

Up to £77k

West Midlands - Hybrid - twice per week in the office

Benefits

• Bonus Scheme
• Hybrid Working

I am working with a client in the West Midlands who are looking for a Platform Engineering Manager with a 'Platform First mindset that can provide strategic leadership to the existing team.

You will be coming into a mature team environment, where there is technical capability and proven delivery. What is lacking at the moment is leadership.

You won't be coming in to turn things around, as they are already on track. This is about bringing inspiration and motivation to an already performing team.

The right person will recognise what is working and encourage continuity, whilst taking the senior responsibilities over and managing efficiently.

Technical capability is important, and in an ideal world you will have recent or current hands on experience with:

• Running platforms in public cloud
• Working in close proximity to Engineering teams in an environment that encourages transparency.
• Experience building modern SaaS platforms
• Strategic oversight, Roadmap delivery
• Investigating Platform health and pushing boundaries

You should be the type of person that makes informed decisions and takes the time to investigate before jumping to conclusions.

You should follow best practice ITIL standards and can evidence this.

You should have a 'Prioritisation through blast radius' mindset; ranging tasks and alerts based on maximum damage if a failure or breach occurs.

This is an excellent team of talented individuals in a company where quality is paramount, and they need someone to enhance their already significant abilities. Is that you?

Key responsibilities and experience

• Line management of a cross functional team - covering Infrastructure and Software disciplines.
• Platform as a Product
• Understanding and appreciation of Cloud Platform Principles.
• Experience enabling teams to go faster safely.
• Azure preferred, other Cloud environments considered.
• Architectural understanding.
• Setting long term strategy.
• Developing new services and capabilities.
• Deliver and maintain reliable, secure, and performant platform improvements.

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