Platform Engineering Manager (Cloud Foundations)

United States Digital Space LLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Private Medical Insurance

27 days holiday

Pension

Job summary

Rightmove is seeking a Platform Engineering Manager (Cloud Foundations) in London. You will lead the Cloud Foundations team, delivering secure, scalable platform services, governance and FinOps while partnering with product teams to align with business goals.

Reporting to the Head of Technology Operations, this role blends people leadership, cloud operations, and platform engineering in a hybrid setup with two days in the office weekly.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in cloud operations and platform engineering management.
• Experience running large cloud-based website environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide cloud platform strategy and roadmap aligned with business goals.
• Lead a team delivering scalable, secure platform services and incident response.

Skills

Cloud operations

Platform engineering

Team leadership

FinOps

Security governance

IAM

Tools

GKE

Service mesh

Load balancers

CDN/WAF

Kafka

Elasticsearch

Job description

Our vision is to give everyone the belief they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler, by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust, and belief to make it happen.

We’re home to the UK’s largest choice of properties and are the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what’s on the market.

**The Role:Platform Engineering Manager (Cloud Foundations)Location: London / Hybrid (2 days per week in office)Reporting to:Head of Technology OperationsThe Role**

Rightmove’s Cloud Foundations team delivers the secure, reliable,scalableand cost‑optimisedplatform foundations used by hundreds of engineers and dozens of mission‑critical services. As we ensure safe, low friction delivery of core services andoperateat scale, the Engineering Manager will lead a team providing cloudplatforms andinfrastructure, cloud security, governance, automation, and operational excellence.

This position blendspeopleleadership, cloud operations, platform engineering, security governance, and FinOps. The successful candidate brings deep operational experience in product‑led technology companies and understands how to run cloud foundations as a modern internal platform.

Key Outcomes for This RoleStrategy, Delivery and Execution

• Through working with your team, key stakeholders, and the platform productmanager, weprovide acloudplatform strategy and roadmapthat aligns to Rightmove business goals and our internalcustomer’sneeds.
• Theteamprovidesaccurateestimates and realistic plans.
• Theplatform roadmap, initiatives/projects, and OKRs arewell managedand deliveredin line with expectations.

People Leadership & Team Development

• Through coaching and mentoring engineers, setting clear, achievable development goals and provides actionable feedback, they improve skills, confidence, and impact.
• Individual growth plans align with teamobjectivesand organisational priorities.
• Engineers are supportedtodesigning and delivering scalable, secure, resilient platform services without micromanagement.
• Achievements arerecognisedand rewarded, performance issues are addressed early and fairly.
• There is an inclusive, psychologically safeenvironment;with leadership tailored to individual strengths and motivations.

Platform Engineering, Operations&Reliability

• Cloudplatform and keyservices arereliable,incident detection and resolutionaresmooth due to proactive monitoring, well‑maintainedalerts/logs, and complete observability coverage.
• Platform resilience and DR planning/testing strategyisdefined and operational,working across the business with validated requirements and outcomes.
• Backup,restoreand resilience mechanisms are regularly tested, ensuring the platform can recover predictably.
• Incident management processes are consistently followed, includingtimelypost‑incident reviews (PIRs) and completion of follow‑up actions.
• On‑call is well staffed, sustainablyoperated, and fosters a healthy on‑call culture.
• Automation (AI‑driven or traditional) delivers increased speed, reduced toil, and enhanced reliability.
• Support requests are triaged and responded to promptly, withprioritisationbased on upstream impact.
• Capacity and cloud spend are effectively managed—no incidents caused by under‑provisioning, and costs are controlled by avoiding unnecessary over‑provisioning.
• Finopsculture is embedded with tooling and process across product development teams
• Vendor relationships aremanaged,supplier due diligence is completed on time, contract costs and SLAs are negotiated as needed.
• Continuous improvement culture is embedded: teams regularly evaluate performance,reliabilityand cost efficiency, feeding learnings back into the platform.

Governance, Guardrails & Security

• Infrastructure‑as‑Code, Policy‑as‑Codeand automated guardrails accelerate delivery while strengthening governance and consistency across the platform.
• Secure software delivery practices and policies arefollowed,vulnerabilities are managed within SLAs, Platform configuration standardsaremaintained(CIS Benchmarks).
• Cloud security policies, governancestandardsand privacy controls consistent with predefined roles, least‑privilege IAM patterns and role‑based access practicesare implemented and followed
• Theorganisationmeets regulatory, contractual and audit obligations,maintainingdocumentation,policiesand process evidence for compliance reviews
• Secure cloud configurations, WAF policies, bot protection, and cloud‑native security toolingaremaintained.
• Architecture diagrams for network and key components aremaintainedfor audit, security, knowledgesharing purposes.

Whatyou’llbring

• Proven experience in cloud operations and platform engineeringmanagement, overseeing cloud infrastructureand platforms, monitoring,reliability, and service delivery in production environments.
• Previoushands‑on experience running large cloud‑based website environmentswith GKE, service mesh, load balancers, CDN/WAF, Kafka, Elasticsearch.
• Strong understanding of cloudservicesincluding networking,compute, storage,containerisation,securityand IAM.
• Experience with IAC,python, Go, CI/CD, Terraform, Kubernetes, modern ops tooling and DevOps workflows.
• Demonstrated experience implementing security controls, IAM policies, and cloud governance frameworks.
• Familiarity with platform engineering concepts including developer platforms, reusable platformcomponentsand enabling internal product teams.
• Experience improving operational processes and developing documented procedures (monitoring, DR, incident response, upgrade processes).
• Strong leadership, team management, collaboration and communication skills, aligned with expectations for managing technical cloud teams.
• Experience designing scalable, reliable cloud platform architectures, consistent with Cloud

About Rightmove

Our vision is to give everyone the belief that they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust and belief to make it happen.

We're home to the UK's largest choice of properties, and are the go‑to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what's on the market.

Despite this growth, we’ve remained a friendly, supportive place to work, with employee #1 still working here! We’ve done this by placing the Rightmove Hows at the heart of everything we do. These are the essential values that reflect our culture, and include:

• Wecreatevalue…by delivering results and building trust with partners and consumers.
• Wethinkbigger…by acting with curiosity and setting bold aspirations.
• Wecaredeeply…by being real, having fun, and valuing diversity.
• Wemovetogether…by being one team - internally collaborative, externally competitive.
• Wemakea difference…by focusing on delivering measurable impact.

We believe in careers that open doors and help our team develop by providing an open and inclusive work environment, offering ongoing training opportunities, and supporting charity fundraising events. And with 88% of Rightmovers saying we’re a great place to work, we’re clearly doing something right!

What we offer

• Cash plan for dental, optical and physio treatments.
• Private Medical Insurance, Pension and Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Plan.
• 27 days holiday plus two (paid) volunteering days a year to give back, and holiday buy schemes.
• Contributory stakeholder pension.
• Life assurance at 4x your basic salary to a spouse, family member or other nominated person in your life.
• Competitive compensation package.
• Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility.
• Travel Loans, Bike to Work scheme, Rental Deposit Loan.
• Charitable contributions through Payroll Giving and donation matching.
• Access deals and discounts on things like travel, electronics, fashion, gym memberships, cinema discounts and more.
• We offer hybrid working with a minimum of 2 days in the office. For our roles, such as Field or Home‑based positions, different working arrangements apply - full details will be shared during the recruitment process.

*As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Rightmove will never discriminate based on age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage / civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity or sexual orientation.**At Rightmove, we believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce leads to better innovation, productivity, and overall success., We are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of their background or identity, to develop and promote a diverse culture that reflects the communities we serve.*

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