Platform Engineering Manager

Collinson Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Collinson Group seeks a Platform Engineering Manager to lead the shared technology platforms, cloud services, and tooling across its Insurance technology estate. You will guide Platform Engineering, support DevOps engineers, and promote consistent engineering standards to deliver secure, reliable software.

In this hybrid London role, you will partner with Security, Architecture and Engineering teams, drive resilience, observability, and incident response, and mentor engineers while managing

Qualifications

• Experience leading Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure teams.
• Experience operating cloud platforms in production.
• Experience with incident response, operational resilience and CSI improvements.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and automation tooling.

Responsibilities

• Own and operate shared platform services, cloud platforms and tooling with defined SLAs.
• Oversee third-party platform suppliers and ensure compliant service delivery.
• Lead platform operations incl. observability, incident management and DR testing.
• Drive platform lifecycle management, debt reduction and continual service improvement.
• Embed secure-by-design principles across platform services and tooling.
• Provide guidance to DevOps engineers and support product teams.

Skills

Leadership

Platform Engineering

Cloud operations

Incident management

IaC / automation

CI/CD governance

Security-by-design

Observability

DevOps coaching

Vulnerability management

Job description

## Platform Engineering ManagerApply: Hybrid: London: Cape Town: Full time: Posted Today: JR000340# **Job Description** **The Role** The Platform Engineering Manager is responsible for the shared technology platforms, cloud services, platform tooling and operational capabilities for the Insurance technology estate.The role leads Platform Engineering across the Insurance technology estate, providing the platforms, tooling and operational capabilities that enable secure, reliable software delivery.The role provides leadership for the Platform Engineering chapter and supports the development of DevOps Engineers across the Insurance technology estate, promoting consistent platform practices and engineering standards. **Key Responsibilities** * Own and operate shared platform services, cloud platforms and platform tooling, ensuring they remain reliable and maintain uptime within agreed service levels.* Oversee third-party platform suppliers and service providers, ensuring effective service delivery, adherence to agreed service levels and that they remain compliant with regulatory expectations.* Lead platform operations, observability, incident management, root cause analysis, annual disaster recovery testing and operational resilience activities.* Manage platform lifecycle activities, including technical debt reduction, end-of-support risks and continual service improvement.* Manage and reduce vulnerabilities identified by automated and manual security testing.* Define and maintain platform engineering standards and approved tooling, providing technical leadership and guidance to DevOps Engineers.* Ensure platform services and platform tooling remain aligned with approved Enterprise Architecture standards and the technology roadmap.* Embed Secure-by-Design principles and secure engineering practices across platform services, engineering tooling and Engineering teams.* Ensure platform services, engineering tooling and third-party platform solutions are implemented and operated in accordance with approved security policies, standards and control frameworks.* Work with the Security team on vulnerability remediation, platform hardening and security improvement initiatives.* Ensure platform services provide appropriate security, monitoring, logging and auditability capabilities.* Support security assurance, audit and remediation activities relating to platform services and engineering tooling.* Lead and support Platform Engineering chapter members through coaching, performance management and career development.* Provide guidance and mentoring to DevOps Engineers embedded within product teams, supporting consistent engineering practices and capability development.* Support recruitment, onboarding and retention activities within the Platform Engineering chapter.* Encourage knowledge sharing, collaboration and continuous improvement across Platform Engineering and wider engineering teams.* Maintain visibility of team capacity, skills development needs and operational risks.* Foster a culture of ownership, accountability and engineering professionalism. **Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours** **Essential*** Experience leading a Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Operations or Infrastructure Engineering team.* Experience operating and supporting cloud platforms and technology services within a production environment.* Experience managing service reliability, incident response, operational resilience and continual service improvement activities.* Experience implementing and supporting Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, automation tooling and engineering enablement practices.* Experience evaluating, implementing or supporting AI-enabled engineering capabilities, including developer productivity tooling and automation solutions across engineering teams.* Experience working with third-party technology suppliers and managed service providers.* Experience supporting secure engineering practices and collaborating with Security, Architecture and Engineering teams.* Experience coaching and developing engineers within either direct or matrix management structures.* Knowledge of AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms.* Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and automation tooling.* Knowledge of CI/CD platforms and developer productivity tooling.* Knowledge of observability, monitoring and operational reporting practices.* Knowledge of secure engineering and security-by-design principles.* Knowledge of incident management, operational resilience and disaster recovery concepts.* Knowledge of AI-assisted software engineering practices and the application of AI agents within DevOps, SecOps, FinOps and operational support workflows.* Knowledge of modern Platform Engineering, DevOps and cloud operations practices. # **Reward & Benefits: What's in it for me?** We want our people to feel recognised, supported and able to thrive both at work and beyond it. We offer a competitive reward package designed to support your financial, physical and mental wellbeing, alongside opportunities to learn, develop and be recognised for the contribution you make. Benefits vary by role and location, and full details will be shared as part of the application process. # **Equal opportunities: Our commitment to inclusion** Collinson Group is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and experiences, and believe that different perspectives make our business stronger.