Platform Engineering Manager

Computerworld Personnel Ltd; Portishead Point; Hybrid; GBP 69,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus Scheme

Hybrid Working

Job summary

Computerworld Personnel Ltd is recruiting a Cloud Platform Engineering Manager in the West Midlands. You will provide strategic leadership to a mature cross-functional team, shaping platform strategy and roadmaps while maintaining high delivery standards.

The role emphasizes a platform-first mindset, hands-on familiarity with Azure (and other clouds), Terraform, Ansible, Docker and Kubernetes, and a focus on secure, scalable SaaS platform improvements.

Qualifications

• Experience leading cross-functional infrastructure/software teams.
• Strong understanding of cloud platform principles and SaaS delivery.
• Proven ability to set long-term platform strategy and roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Line management of a cross functional team—Infrastructure and Software.
• Platform as a Product and governance of platform services.
• Understanding and applying Cloud Platform Principles across teams.
• Enable teams to go faster safely with scalable practices.
• Deliver and maintain reliable, secure, and performant platform improvements.

Skills

Platform leadership

Azure

Cloud architecture

Roadmap planning

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Cloud Platform Engineering Manager

Up to £77k

West Midlands - Hybrid - twice per week in the office

Benefits:

• Bonus Scheme
• Hybrid Working

I am working with a client in the West Midlands who are looking for a Platform Engineering Manager with a 'Platform First mindset that can provide strategic leadership to the existing team.

You will be coming into a mature team environment, where there is technical capability and proven delivery. What is lacking at the moment is leadership.

You won't be coming in to turn things around, as they are already on track. This is about bringing inspiration and motivation to an already performing team.

The right person will recognise what is working and encourage continuity, whilst taking the senior responsibilities over and managing efficiently.

Technical capability is important, and in an ideal world you will have recent or current hands on experience with:

• Running platforms in public cloud
• Working in close proximity to Engineering teams in an environment that encourages transparency.
• Experience building modern SaaS platforms
• Strategic oversight, Roadmap delivery
• Investigating Platform health and pushing boundaries

You should be the type of person that makes informed decisions and takes the time to investigate before jumping to conclusions.

You should follow best practice ITIL standards and can evidence this.

You should have a 'Prioritisation through blast radius' mindset; ranging tasks and alerts based on maximum damage if a failure or breach occurs.

This is an excellent team of talented individuals in a company where quality is paramount, and they need someone to enhance their already significant abilities. Is that you?

Key responsibilities and experience:

• Line management of a cross functional team - covering Infrastructure and Software disciplines.
• Platform as a Product
• Understanding and appreciation of Cloud Platform Principles.
• Experience enabling teams to go faster safely.
• Azure preferred, other Cloud environments considered.
• Architectural understanding.
• Setting long term strategy.
• Developing new services and capabilities.
• Deliver and maintain reliable, secure, and performant platform improvements.

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