Cloud Platform Engineering Manager

Career Choices Dewis Gyrfa Ltd; Worcester; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus Scheme

Hybrid Working

Job summary

Career Choices Dewis Gyrfa Ltd in the West Midlands is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineering Manager with a Platform First mindset to provide strategic leadership to an established team. The role combines hands-on cloud platform work with senior leadership responsibilities in a mature, delivery-focused environment.

You will guide platform strategy, roadmap delivery, and platform health, with hybrid working (office twice weekly). Azure preferred, with openness to other clouds.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a cross-functional Platform Engineering team.
• Strong cloud platform engineering background and hands-on capability.
• Ability to set long-term strategy and roadmaps for platforms.

Responsibilities

• Line management of a cross-functional team covering Infrastructure and Software.
• Deliver and maintain reliable, secure, and performant platform improvements.
• Develop new services and capabilities and set long-term strategy.

Skills

Leadership

Platform engineering

Cloud experience

Strategic thinking

Team enabling

Tools

Azure

Job description

£65,000 to £77,000 per year, Hybrid working, Bonus scheme

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hours:

Full time

Disability Confident:

No

Closing Date:

17/10/2026

About this job

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.

Setting long term strategy.

Developing new services and capabilities.

Deliver and maintain reliable, secure, and performant platform improvements.

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