Engineering Manager

Inara; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Inara is seeking an Engineering Manager to own a platform engineering team within a high-profile government programme in the United Kingdom. This hands-on leadership role guides the build of a production-grade cloud landing zone and shapes engineering standards across the wider programme.

The team sits in the Cloud Centre of Excellence with roots in DevOps, emphasising CI/CD, automation, and infrastructure delivery.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience in engineering teams
• Ability to navigate regulated government environments
• Strong communication across all levels of seniority

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of three senior platform engineers, with three junior roles currently in hire
• Drive the design and delivery of a multi-cloud landing zone across AWS and Azure
• Set technical direction, architecture patterns, IaC standards, container orchestration, automation approaches
• Act as principal technical voice within the Cloud Centre of Excellence, providing guidance across the broader engineering community
• Support other delivery teams in building and managing their own cloud infrastructure
• Managing civil servant stakeholders across multiple concurrent workstreams
• Mentor engineers at all levels, shaping career development and building long-term team capability
• Own security and compliance standards across platform build and deployment pipelines

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Cloud concepts

Tools

Terraform

Bash

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Job description

We're looking for a technically grounded Engineering Manager to take ownership of a platform engineering team within a high-profile government organisation. This is a hands‑on leadership role, you'll guide the build of a production-grade cloud landing zone while shaping engineering standards across a wider programme.

The team sits within the Cloud Centre of Excellence and has its roots in DevOps, so CI/CD, automation, and infrastructure delivery are all part of the mix. You'll be stepping into a principal engineering capacity as much as a people management one.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• Leading a team of three senior platform engineers, with three junior roles currently in hire
• Driving the design and delivery of a multi-cloud landing zone across AWS and Azure
• Setting technical direction, architecture patterns, IaC standards, container orchestration, automation approaches
• Acting as principal technical voice within the Cloud Centre of Excellence, providing guidance across the broader engineering community
• Supporting other delivery teams in building and managing their own cloud infrastructure
• Managing civil servant stakeholders across multiple concurrent workstreams
• Mentoring engineers at all levels, shaping career development and building long-term team capability
• Owning security and compliance standards across platform build and deployment pipelines

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Demonstrable experience designing and delivering cloud landing zones at scale (AWS and/or Azure)
• Strong grounding in Terraform, Bash, Ansible, and GitHub Actions
• Background in platform or DevOps engineering, you understand the pipelines, not just the theory
• Comfortable operating in a government or regulated environment, you know how to navigate complexity and stakeholder politics without losing pace
• A leader who earns technical credibility by doing, not just directing
• Strong communicator at all levels, from junior engineers to senior civil servants