Cloud Platform Team Manager

Yorkshire Building Society; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days + Bank Holidays (holiday)

On target bonus 7% (up to 15%)

Pension contributions 11%

Private medical insurance

My Benefits portal

Job summary

Yorkshire Building Society is seeking a Cloud Platform Manager to lead the Cloud Platform Engineering team and own a secure, Azure-based platform that underpins software delivery across the organisation.

You will shape platform direction, drive governance, cost efficiency, reliability, and security, while collaborating with engineering, security and product teams to deliver scalable solutions. The role blends strategic leadership with hands-on guidance and a commitment to high performance.

Qualifications

• Strong Azure engineering expertise at scale (networking, IAM, security, policies).
• Hands-on IaC, CI/CD, and GitOps tooling (Terraform, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).
• Deep understanding of SRE, observability and operational excellence in cloud environments.
• Proven people leadership: coaching, mentoring, capability development, high-performing teams.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and ability to influence across engineering, security and business.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a team of Cloud Platform Engineers, embedding a culture of continuous learning and high performance.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership and architectural oversight across Azure, AKS, Terraform, CI/CD, observability and platform security.
• Own platform reliability, scalability, resilience and cost efficiency with governance across networking, identity, monitoring and security baselines.
• Drive roadmap planning, delivery prioritisation and governance, aligning activity with objectives and delivery frameworks.
• Act as the primary contact for Cloud Platform Engineering, communicating progress and promoting adoption across teams.

Skills

Azure at scale

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD

GitOps Tools

SRE/Observability

Leadership

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Job description

Lead a high-performing engineering team and take ownership of a critical cloud platform that underpins modern software delivery. This is a strategic and hands‑on leadership role, offering the opportunity to shape platform direction, influence engineering practices, and drive secure, scalable cloud capabilities across the organisation.

About the role

As a Cloud Platform Manager, you will lead and develop the Cloud Platform Engineering team to build, operate and evolve a secure, reliable and high-performing Azure platform.

• Lead, coach and develop a team of Cloud Platform Engineers, embedding a culture of continuous learning, engineering excellence, and high performance
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership and architectural oversight across Azure, AKS, Terraform, CI/CD, observability and platform security
• Own platform reliability, scalability, resilience and cost efficiency, ensuring strong governance across networking, identity, monitoring and security baselines
• Drive roadmap planning, delivery prioritisation and governance, aligning platform engineering activity with organisational objectives and delivery frameworks
• Act as the primary point of contact for Cloud Platform Engineering, communicating progress and promoting adoption across technology and product teams

About you

You’ll be an experienced cloud engineering leader with a strong blend of technical expertise, people leadership and delivery capability within complex technology environments.

• Strong Azure engineering expertise at scale, including core platform services such as networking, IAM, security, and policies
• Hands‑on experience with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and GitOps tooling such as Terraform, GitHub Actions and ArgoCD
• Deep understanding of SRE principles, observability and operational excellence in cloud environments
• Proven people leadership skills, including coaching, mentoring, capability development and managing high‑performing teams
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to influence and align across engineering, security and business teams

About us

At YBS we don’t have shareholders, we have members. We care about people and that includes you. So here, you’ll be respected for who you are, you’ll be able to bring your whole self to work, and you’ll have everything you need to build a long and rewarding career.

Flexibility

We offer a range of flexible working options without unsocial hours, which can help you find a healthy work‑life balance. Whether it’s finishing early for an appointment or fitting your studies and hobbies in around your working hours, we can help make it work for you. We’re happy to talk flexible working and you can reach out to us anytime to discuss this during the recruitment process.

Development

We want you to feel challenged here. Whatever your ambitions, we’re committed to helping you develop your skills and move ahead in your career journey. From day one, we’ll set you up for success with a brilliant induction and full training plan, all designed to get you up to speed quickly.

Inclusivity

We’re passionate about creating an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome and able to be themselves. If you’ll go the extra mile to help our members, you’ll fit right in and feel you belong here.

About our Benefits

We offer lots of fantastic rewards that you can make the most of in and out of work, including:

• Holiday. You’ll get 25 days plus Bank Holidays, as well as the option to buy up to a further 5 days.
• Bonus. At YBS we work collaboratively and share in our success together, so when we reach our goals were all rewarded with an on target bonus of 7% of eligible pay (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%).
• Pension. We know how important it is to save towards the future, that’s why we’ll contribute up 11% into your YBS pension.
• Healthcare. Health and wellbeing are an important part of life at YBS, when you join us you’ll have access to a range of health benefits to suit your life including private medical insurance, dental and healthcare plans.
• My Benefits. When you join YBS you’ll have access to our self‑service benefits portal, where you can access a range of retail, hospitality and health discounts.

Want more information?

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