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Platform Engineering Manager

Medirest Signature

London

On-site

GBP 80,000 - 120,000

Full time

7 days ago
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Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Platform Engineering Manager in London to lead a team of skilled engineers in building and operating core infrastructure and services. This role demands a strong technical background in cloud-native technologies and is pivotal for driving innovation and excellence. You will also focus on mentoring talent and creating a productive team environment. The position offers a competitive salary and the chance to contribute significantly to the bank-wide strategy.

Qualifications

  • Proven experience leading, managing, and scaling high-performing teams.
  • Strong technical background in cloud-native technologies and container orchestration.
  • Strategic mindset with experience designing scalable, distributed systems.

Responsibilities

  • Leading, mentoring, and growing a high-performing team of platform engineers.
  • Defining the strategic vision and technical roadmap for the platform.
  • Collaborating with Product, Architecture, and Security teams to deliver a secure platform.

Skills

Leadership
Cloud-native technologies
DevOps
Communication

Tools

AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
Datadog
OpenTelemetry

Job description

Join us as an Platform Engineering Manager

  • In this key role, you’ll be leading a team of talented and creative engineers to build our platforms
  • We’ll look to you to deliver exceptionally high-quality work and empower engineers to make a big impact
  • It’s a great opportunity to be recognised for your expertise and knowledge as you contribute to the bank-wide strategy
What you’ll do

As a Platform Engineering Manager, you will be pivotal to the success of our platform, leading the teams that build and operate our core infrastructure, services, and tools

Day-to-day, you’ll be:

  • Leading, mentoring, and growing a high-performing team of platform engineers, shaping our hiring strategy and fostering a culture of innovation and ownership
  • Defining the strategic vision and technical roadmap for our platform, focusing on reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience
  • Championing engineering excellence by embedding best practices for IaC, CI/CD, and SRE, while owning the operational health of our platform through SLOs
  • Collaborating with Product, Architecture, and Security teams to deliver a secure, robust platform that accelerates product development
The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with proven experience leading, managing, and scaling high-performing Platform, SRE, or DevOps teams.

You’ll also have:

  • Strong technical background in cloud-native technologies (e.g., AWS, GCP), containerisation (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes)
  • Deep understanding of modern platform engineering principles, including infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Crossplane), CI/CD pipelines, observability (e.g., Datadog, OpenTelemetry) and self-service platform design
  • A strategic mindset with experience designing, building, and operating scalable, distributed systems in a regulated environment
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
  • A passion for nurturing engineering talent and creating an environment where people can do their best work
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