Platform Engineering Manager - Remote, High-Impact Scale

Ripjar; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A software development company based in the UK is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team focused on delivering secure and efficient cloud platforms. You will oversee engineering practices, ensure operational excellence, and drive process improvements. The ideal candidate has strong leadership experience in cloud environments, knowledge of relevant technologies, and a passion for building effective teams. This role supports fully remote work with occasional office visits and offers competitive benefits.

Benefits

Competitive base salary

Fully remote working

25 days annual leave + birthday off

Life assurance

Private Family Healthcare

Enhanced maternity/paternity pay

Latest tech including a MacBook Pro

Qualifications

• Strong experience in engineering leadership with a track record of implementing process improvements.
• Proven experience leading platform, SRE, or DevOps teams in a hybrid public/private cloud environment.
• Familiarity with AWS, Proxmox, Spark, HBASE, and HDFS.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of platform and operations engineers delivering cloud infrastructure.
• Own and drive security, reliability and scalability objectives.
• Refine platform processes for deployment, change management, and observability.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Process improvement

Agile delivery

Incident management

DevOps culture

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Datadog

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

A software development company based in the UK is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team focused on delivering secure and efficient cloud platforms. You will oversee engineering practices, ensure operational excellence, and drive process improvements. The ideal candidate has strong leadership experience in cloud environments, knowledge of relevant technologies, and a passion for building effective teams. This role supports fully remote work with occasional office visits and offers competitive benefits.