Platform Engineering Leader — Cloud & DevOps

Hyperoptic; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global Remote working — up to 2 weeks/

25 days holiday

Private medical Insurance

Life assurance 4x salary

Pension with 4% match

Retail offers

Free Hyperoptic broadband

Enhanced pay for new parents

Job summary

Hyperoptic is seeking a seasoned Head of Platform Engineering to lead a ~20-person team and shape a scalable, secure, reliable platform. You will drive DevOps practices, cloud strategy across AWS/GCP, and developer tooling to accelerate product delivery.

You will mentor engineers, evolve IaC with Terraform/Ansible, and advance Kubernetes adoption while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Engineering teams.
• Experience managing large internal and external engineering resources.
• Strong knowledge of AWS and/or GCP cloud-native architecture.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerised environments.
• Deep expertise in Terraform and Ansible for IaC.
• Experience designing event-driven architectures using Kafka.
• Strong CI/CD, automation and modern DevOps practices.
• Experience building internal platforms and developer tooling.
• Strong reliability, observability, security and scalability awareness.
• Ability to use engineering metrics to drive improvements.
• Excellent communication to influence stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Platform Engineering team.
• Foster collaborative, inclusive, high-performing culture.
• Manage resources, priorities, timelines, and performance.
• Develop capabilities and ensure team support.
• Oversee design and operation of scalable, secure platform infrastructure.
• Drive IaC adoption and Kubernetes evolution.
• Build central tooling, automation and self-service capabilities.
• Ensure services are resilient and observable.
• Collaborate with Product/Engineering teams to boost productivity.
• Communicate platform strategy and risks to senior stakeholders.
• Establish monitoring, logging and alerting.
• Use metrics to demonstrate impact and drive improvements.

Skills

Platform Engineering

DevOps

SRE

Cloud Architecture

AWS/GCP

Kubernetes

Kafka

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD

Automation

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Hyperoptic is seeking a seasoned Head of Platform Engineering to lead a ~20-person team and shape a scalable, secure, reliable platform. You will drive DevOps practices, cloud strategy across AWS/GCP, and developer tooling to accelerate product delivery.

You will mentor engineers, evolve IaC with Terraform/Ansible, and advance Kubernetes adoption while collaborating with cross-functional teams.