About this role
Salary: £75,000 - 75,000 per year
Requirements: Strong people leadership with a track record of coaching and developing high-performing teams.Solid background in platform engineering, architecture, and cloud and infrastructure-as-code technologies.A deep understanding of the platform-as-a-product mindset and customer empathy.Experience setting boundaries, managing risks, and driving operational excellence within Microsoft Azure. Responsibilities: Line-manage, coach, and develop a team of platform engineers, focusing on performance and career growth.Foster a safe, high-trust, collaborative environment where engineers feel empowered to learn, experiment, and hold each other to high quality standards.Own the platform vision, value proposition, and roadmap based on internal customer needs.Champion platform thinking across our organisation so secure and reliable tools are the easiest path for all teams to choose.Guide the team in building and evolving a portfolio of cloud services, including landing zones, CI/CD enablement, IaC patterns, observability, and backup and disaster recovery.Curate complexity to actively reduce cognitive load for delivery teams.Own production operations of platform services, driving improvements in reliability, security, and cost optimisation via the Azure Well-Architected Framework.Establish secure boundaries and governance in Microsoft Azure, balancing developer autonomy with compliance.Set and uphold the technical bar for production-grade engineering, arbitrate hard architectural decisions, and lead technical reviews.Lead by example on engineering disciplines such as testing, automation, and documentation without needing to be the most prolific contributor of code. Technologies: AzureCI/CDCloudSecurity More:
We are seeking a senior, people-first leader to help mature our Cloud Platform Engineering team. You will build a high-trust culture and empower delivery teams by creating self-service, automated paved roads in Azure that reduce cognitive load and make secure, reliable delivery the easiest choice. This is a hybrid role with two days per week in the office.
last updated 29 week of 2026