Platform Engineering Manager

Platform Engineering ManagerLocation: Hybrid / Remote Salary: Competitive Employment type: Permanent We are working with an established technology business that is looking for an experienced Platform Engineering Manager to lead and develop its cloud platform engineering function. This is a senior leadership role combining people management, platform-as-a-product thinking and strong Azure engineering credibility. You will lead a team of experienced platform engineers, shape the internal cloud platform strategy and create a culture of ownership, trust and continuous improvement. The role is not focused on being the most hands-on engineer in the team. Your impact will come through developing people, setting the technical direction and ensuring the platform genuinely improves the experience of engineering and delivery teams. Key responsibilities • Lead, coach and develop a team of senior platform engineers • Build a high-trust, high-ownership engineering culture • Own the vision, roadmap and value proposition for the internal cloud platform • Embed a genuine platform-as-a-product approach • Treat engineering and delivery teams as internal customers • Establish effective feedback loops and improve the platform based on user needs • Set the direction for Azure platform services, including: • Landing zones • CI/CD enablement • Infrastructure as Code • Identity and access controls • Observability • Vulnerability scanning • Backup and disaster recovery • Ensure platform services are self-service, secure, reliable and easy to adopt • Own platform reliability, incident management, SLOs, SLAs and operational performance • Improve cloud security, resilience, performance and cost optimisation • Promote automation, policy-as-code and scalable engineering guardrails • Work closely with engineering, security, architecture and delivery leaders • Set the technical standard and lead important architecture and design decisions Experience required • Proven experience leading and developing a team of platform, cloud or DevOps engineers • Strong people leadership, coaching and performance management experience • Experience building high-performing, autonomous engineering teams • Experience owning an internal platform, cloud service or technical product • Strong understanding of platform-as-a-product principles • Deep technical credibility within Microsoft Azure • Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code • Experience with CI/CD, cloud landing zones, observability and automation • Experience owning production services, including incident management and reliability improvements • Strong understanding of SLOs, SLAs and operational service ownership • Ability to influence senior stakeholders across engineering, security and architecture • Comfortable making complex technical and architectural trade-off decisions • Strong focus on outcomes, customer experience and continuous improvement Experience with Team Topologies, Azure Well-Architected Framework, policy-as-code or internal developer platforms would be highly beneficial. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced platform engineering leader to shape the future of a growing cloud platform function while developing a talented engineering team.