Senior Engineering Manager, Hybrid Platform & Infra

Anglian Water Services; Huntingdon; Hybrid; GBP 68,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full private healthcare with no excess

26 days leave + bank holidays

Flexible working culture

Competitive pension scheme with 7%+2%

Life Assurance at eight times salary

Personal Accident cover 5x salary

Bonus Scheme

Job summary

Anglian Water Services is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager, Platforms and Infrastructure to lead our hybrid infrastructure, ensure security, scalability and high performance across platforms and networks. You will drive platform strategy, build cross-functional partnerships, and foster a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.

You will oversee Site Reliability Engineering, champion automation, and develop teams to deliver resilient, cost-efficient services while aligning with

Qualifications

• Experience leading platform, infrastructure or cloud engineering teams.
• Experience managing engineering managers.
• Strong understanding of hybrid infrastructure, cloud technologies and modern engineering practises.
• Experience improving operational resilience and service reliability.
• Knowledge of DevOps, SRE and IaC principles.

Responsibilities

• Lead platform strategy and delivery - defining and managing the hybrid infrastructure roadmap, balancing in-house and managed service capabilities, and embedding automation-first, resilient design from the start.
• Build relationships - developing outcome focused relationships with Architecture, Security and Product teams and our strategic technology partners.
• Ensure operational reliability and service-aware operations - overseeing Site Reliability Engineering, uptime, performance, and proactive observability to reduce operational risk and toil, and enable self-healing platforms.
• Develop people - leading, coaching and developing high-performing teams, while building capability across the function.
• Champion continuous improvement and transformation - driving DevOps, automation, and modern Cloud engineering practises, identifying opportunities to reduce cost and complexity, and fostering a culture of learning, experimentation, and safe challenge for all.

Skills

Leadership

Platform knowledge

Cloud technologies

Operational excellence

Education

Degree in technology or computing

Tools

Azure

AWS

Terraform

IaC

Job description

Anglian Water Services is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager, Platforms and Infrastructure to lead our hybrid infrastructure, ensure security, scalability and high performance across platforms and networks. You will drive platform strategy, build cross-functional partnerships, and foster a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.

You will oversee Site Reliability Engineering, champion automation, and develop teams to deliver resilient, cost-efficient services while aligning with