Staff Core Platform Services Manager

• Travel required: No travel is expected with this role
• Job category: IT&S Group
• Relocation available: This role is not eligible for relocation

You will lead a high-energy, top-performing engineers and product managers, working alongside technology and business leaders to shape the vision and drive the execution of progressive platform initiatives that make a real impact.

Let me tell you about the role

As a Staff Core Platform Services Manager, you will play a strategic role in crafting and securing enterprise-wide technology landscapes, ensuring their resilience, performance, and compliance. You will provide expertise in security, infrastructure, and operational excellence, driving large-scale transformation and automation initiatives. Your role will encompass platform architecture, system integration, cybersecurity, and operational continuity. You will be collaborating with engineers, architects, and business stakeholders, working to establish robust governance models, technology roadmaps, and innovative security frameworks to safeguard mission-critical enterprise applications.

What you will deliver

• Drive enterprise operations excellence, optimising system performance, availability, and scalability.
• Provide leadership in enterprise modernization and transformation, ensuring seamless integration with enterprise IT.
• Drive CI/CD, DevOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code adoption for enterprise deployments.
• Ensure disaster recovery, high availability, and resilience planning for enterprise applications running on core platforms.
• Engage with technology teams and external vendors to ensure enterprise solutions align with enterprise goals.
• Mentor and lead enterprise engineering and operations teams, encouraging a culture of excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Provide technical recommendations on enterprise investments, cybersecurity threats, and operational risks.
• Lead a team of engineers and accelerate their growth by providing thoughtful feedback, technical mentorship.
• Collaborate across teams to prioritize, build and align strategies that improve bp’s ability to scale.

What you will need to be successful (experience and qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Extensive experience in enterprise technology, site reliability, and cloud operations in large-scale environments.
• Experience in building, leading, and running high-performance service engineering teams, with a focus on reliability, automation, and customer success.
• Deep knowledge of ITIL, Agile, and enterprise IT governance frameworks.

Essential skills

• Deep expertise crafting and maintaining highly available, scalable, and resilient distributed systems.
• Expertise in incident management, disaster recovery, and proactive reliability engineering, ensuring high availability for mission-critical systems.
• Experience in infrastructure automation, Infrastructure-as-Code (AWS Cloud Development Kit, Azure Bicep), and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proven expertise in networking, storage, compute, and identity platforms, ensuring secure, scalable cloud infrastructure.

Skills that set you apart

• Proven success navigating global, highly regulated environments, ensuring compliance, security, and enterprise-wide risk management.
• Experience managing budgets up to $5M+, ensuring strategic alignment with product and business priorities.
• A strong product-centric approach, enabling you to bridge the gap between engineering, operations, and business needs.

About bp

bp is a global energy business with a purpose to reimagine energy for people and our planet. We aim to be a very different kind of energy company by 2030, helping the world reach net zero and improving people’s lives. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. Join bp and become part of the team building our future!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

WHY JOIN US?

bp offers a vibrant, collaborative work culture in a company that closely follows its values of ‘Who We Are’ that defines what we stand for at bp. Our three key beliefs are to Live our purpose, Play to win and Care for others. We are dedicated to developing your career and reward our people with a competitive package coupled with benefits that reflect these values.

• Competitive salary package including annual bonus program
• Excellent work-life balance & flexible working arrangements (hybrid 60/40 in-office)
• Collaborative environment that celebrates achievements, diversity, and culture
• Ongoing career opportunities in a global organisation
• Career development and mentoring programs