Platform Engineering Manager

TipTopJob; West Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 69,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus Scheme

Hybrid Working

Job summary

TipTopJob in the West Midlands is partnering with a client to appoint a Platform Engineering Manager with a Platform First mindset. The role offers hybrid working (twice per week in the office) and a strategic leadership remit over a mature team.

You will influence architecture, delivery speed, and platform health while sustaining high-quality outputs. Owners will drive cloud platform initiatives, set roadmaps, and ensure reliable, secure SaaS platform improvements.

Qualifications

• Line management of a cross functional team covering Infrastructure and Software disciplines.
• Platform as a Product with roadmaps and outcomes.
• Understanding and appreciation of Cloud Platform Principles.
• Experience enabling teams to go faster safely.

Responsibilities

• Line management of a cross functional team: Infrastructure and Software.
• Platform as a Product with long-term roadmap delivery.
• Understand and apply Cloud Platform Principles in practice.
• Enable teams to go faster safely with governance and best practices.

Skills

Line management

Platform as a Product

Cloud platform principles

Enable teams to go faster safely

Tools

Azure

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

IaC patterns

Job description

Up to GBP77k

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 wont 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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