Head of Platform Engineering: Cloud, DevOps & Automation

Hyperoptic Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global remote working up to 2 weeks a/

25 days holiday

Private medical insurance

Life assurance 4x salary

Pension scheme (up to 4%)

Retail offers

Free Hyperoptic broadband

Enhanced pay for new parents

Job summary

Hyperoptic Ltd. is seeking an experienced Head of Platform Engineering to lead our Platform Engineering function and shape the strategic direction of our platform infrastructure.

The role focuses on building a scalable, secure and reliable cloud-native platform that enables product teams to move quickly with automation and developer tooling. The successful candidate will manage a team of ~20 engineers, drive modern DevOps practices, and oversee cloud strategy across AWS and GCP, Kubernetes

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE or Cloud Engineering teams.
• Experience managing sizeable engineering teams, including internal and external resources.
• Strong knowledge of AWS and/or GCP and cloud-native architecture.
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes and containerised environments.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience, particularly Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience designing and operating event-driven architectures using Kafka.
• A strong understanding of CI/CD, automation and modern DevOps practices.
• Experience building internal platforms, developer tooling and self-service capabilities.
• A strong understanding of reliability, observability, security and scalability.
• Experience using engineering metrics and data to drive continuous improvement.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence engineers, technology leaders and senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and develop a team of around 20 internal and external engineers.
• Oversee the design, development and ongoing operation of scalable, secure and highly reliable platform infrastructure.
• Establish and champion modern Platform Engineering and DevOps practices.
• Drive the adoption of Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform and Ansible.
• Lead the continued adoption and evolution of Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• Build centralised tooling, automation and self-service capabilities for product engineering teams.
• Ensure platform services are resilient, observable and designed with scalability and reliability in mind.
• Provide technical leadership across AWS and GCP and define cloud architecture aligned with growth.
• Collaborate with Product, Architecture, Security and Operations to align platform strategy.
• Communicate platform strategy, progress, risks and opportunities clearly to senior stakeholders.
• Establish monitoring, logging and alerting capabilities and use metrics to drive improvements.

Skills

Leadership

Platform Engineering

DevOps

Cloud architecture

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Kafka

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Job description

Hyperoptic Ltd. is seeking an experienced Head of Platform Engineering to lead our Platform Engineering function and shape the strategic direction of our platform infrastructure.

The role focuses on building a scalable, secure and reliable cloud-native platform that enables product teams to move quickly with automation and developer tooling. The successful candidate will manage a team of ~20 engineers, drive modern DevOps practices, and oversee cloud strategy across AWS and GCP, Kubernetes