Senior Engineering Manager

Vocative Consulting; Wrecclesham; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Office day per week

Permanent role

Job summary

Vocative Consulting seeks a Senior Engineering Manager, Platform and Applications to lead both the Ops and Engineering teams, forging a new DevOps function during a legacy-to-cloud transition. You will oversee ongoing development and support of the core product, owning incident management, deployment practices, and cross-team collaboration with the CTO.

The role is hybrid in Surrey with one office day per week, offering a base salary around £90k–£95k as part of a major transformation initiative.

Qualifications

• Experience leading both development and operations environments.
• Experience owning incident management and support, as well as engineering and deployment practices.
• Ability to manage significant change, including team integration and migration from legacy to cloud platforms.
• Experience retraining developers and sysops during a technology transition.
• Experience working in or moving from a legacy environment to a modern cloud stack.

Responsibilities

• Lead both an Ops team and an Engineering team and initially combine them into a DevOps function.
• Manage the ongoing development and maintenance of the business core product.
• Own incident management and support, along with engineering and deployment practices.
• Work with the CTO and other technical teams to begin breaking up the product and migrating it to a modern cloud stack.
• Lead team integration and support the migration of services from legacy systems to cloud platforms.
• Retrain developers and sysops as part of the transition.
• Over time, migrate the entire product away from the current environment.
• Ultimately own the core product and DevOps team in the new modern environment.

Skills

Leadership

Incident management

DevOps

Cloud migration

Team integration

Retraining staff

Tools

ASP.NET

SQL

Windows

Web

Job description

Salary: £90,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:

• Experience leading both development and operations environments
• Experience owning incident management and support, as well as engineering and deployment practices
• Ability to manage significant change, including team integration and migration from legacy to cloud platforms
• Experience retraining developers and sysops during a technology transition
• Experience working in or moving from a legacy environment to a modern cloud stack

Responsibilities:

• Lead both an Ops team and an Engineering team and initially combine them into a DevOps function
• Manage the ongoing development and maintenance of the businesss core product
• Own incident management and support, along with engineering and deployment practices
• Work with the CTO and other technical teams to begin breaking up the product and migrating it to a modern cloud stack
• Lead team integration and support the migration of services from legacy systems to cloud platforms
• Retrain developers and sysops as part of the transition
• Over time, migrate the entire product away from the current environment
• Ultimately own the core product and DevOps team in the new modern environment

Technologies:

• Cloud
• CTO
• DevOps
• Incident Management
• Support
• ASP.NET
• SQL
• Web
• Windows

More:

We are offering a permanent Senior Engineering Manager, Platform and Applications role on a hybrid basis in Surrey, with one office day per week and a base salary of around £90-95K. This is an excellent opportunity to be at the heart of a significant transformation within a legacy engineering team, creating a DevOps function and leading the team through the transition to a modern stack. Our core product is mission critical and generates the bulk of the companys revenue, and we are looking for someone to help shape its future while working alongside the CTO and other technical teams.

last updated 36 week of 2026