Platform Engineering Manager — Self-Serve DevOps Lead

Homeprotect Home Insurance; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Wellbeing support

Pension with employer contribution

Staff discount on Homeprotect products

Flexible working

25 days annual leave

Job summary

Homeprotect is seeking a Platform Engineering Manager to lead an internal developer platform that acts as a product, enabling fast and safe delivery across multiple teams. You will own strategy, people, and delivery with built-in security and regulatory considerations.

The role offers flexible, hybrid working with in‑office collaboration once per week, and a focus on scaling the platform to support engineering, data, pricing and AI teams.

Qualifications

• Proven operator who has built and run an internal platform/IDP.
• Track record of driving significant platform change in a growing engineering organisation.
• Genuine people leadership: built, managed and developed platform/DevOps/SRE teams, including hiring, coaching, performance and progression.
• Strong cloud (Azure and/or GCP), Terraform/IaC, CI/CD, observability and modern DevOps/SRE practices.
• Comfortable operating in a regulated environment — security and compliance by design.
• Able to shift a team from reactive ticket-taking to a product-led platform.
• Stakeholder management across engineering leadership — able to influence teams they don't directly own.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy and roadmap for the internal developer platform as a product.
• Grow the platform team and embed platform engineers per delivery team.
• Run embed model to enable delivery teams while maintaining central governance.
• Deliver self-serve paving roads: Terraform modules, env provisioning, CI/CD, observability.
• Own platform reliability and run across multi-cloud and on-prem estates.
• Incorporate security and FCA-compliant practices by design.

Skills

Platform engineering

People leadership

Cloud (Azure/GCP)

Terraform/IaC

CI/CD

Observability

Security by design

Stakeholder management

Tools

Azure

GCP

Job description

Homeprotect is seeking a Platform Engineering Manager to lead an internal developer platform that acts as a product, enabling fast and safe delivery across multiple teams. You will own strategy, people, and delivery with built-in security and regulatory considerations.

The role offers flexible, hybrid working with in‑office collaboration once per week, and a focus on scaling the platform to support engineering, data, pricing and AI teams.