Director of Platform Engineering - Remote UK

Eden Scott; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote UK

Competitive salary

Comprehensive benefits

High-impact leadership role

Job summary

Eden Scott is seeking a Director of Platform Engineering to shape the vision and operating model for a modern platform org responsible for cloud infrastructure, automation, reliability, identity, networking, and developer enablement.

You will lead multiple teams, drive IaC, champion reliability and security, and partner with leadership to align platform investments with business objectives across locations in the UK.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading production engineering teams with hiring and performance management.
• Hands-on coding and IaC experience in Terraform/Ansible and cloud platforms.
• Strong knowledge of platform tools, observability, security, and reliability.
• Experience with PCI DSS and SOX in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute platform strategy, roadmap, and operating model.
• Lead and develop teams across infrastructure, network, reliability, and platform services.
• Drive automation-first principles via IaC and self-service platforms.
• Champion reliability, security, and scalability of critical platforms.
• Collaborate with leadership to align platform investments with goals.
• Improve developer productivity with modern tooling and practices.
• Evaluate emerging tech, including AI-enabled engineering capabilities.

Skills

Leadership

Platform Engineering

Cloud Infrastructure

CI/CD

SRE / Reliability

Security (PCI DSS / SOX)

AI tooling

OpenTelemetry

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

AWS

Azure

GCP

OCI

HashiCorp Vault

HashiCorp Consul

OpenTelemetry

Active Directory / Entra ID

Job description

Eden Scott is seeking a Director of Platform Engineering to shape the vision and operating model for a modern platform org responsible for cloud infrastructure, automation, reliability, identity, networking, and developer enablement.

You will lead multiple teams, drive IaC, champion reliability and security, and partner with leadership to align platform investments with business objectives across locations in the UK.