Yorkshire Building Society
Cloud Platform Team Manager
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Cloud Platform Manager
Lead a high-performing engineering team and take ownership of a critical cloud platform that underpins modern software delivery. This is a strategic and hands-on leadership role, offering the opportunity to shape platform direction, influence engineering practices, and drive secure, scalable cloud capabilities across the organisation.
About the role
As a Cloud Platform Manager, you will lead and develop the Cloud Platform Engineering team to build, operate, and evolve a secure, reliable, and high-performing Azure platform.
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of Cloud Platform Engineers, embedding a culture of continuous learning, engineering excellence, and high performance
- Provide hands-on technical leadership and architectural oversight across Azure, AKS, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and platform security
- Own platform reliability, scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency, ensuring strong governance across networking, identity, monitoring, and security baselines
- Drive roadmap planning, delivery prioritisation, and governance, aligning platform engineering activity with organisational objectives and delivery frameworks
- Act as the primary point of contact for Cloud Platform Engineering, communicating progress and promoting adoption across technology and product teams
About you
You’ll be an experienced cloud engineering leader with a strong blend of technical expertise, people leadership, and delivery capability within complex technology environments.
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- Strong Azure engineering expertise at scale, including core platform services such as networking, IAM, security, and policies
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and GitOps tooling such as Terraform, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD
- Deep understanding of SRE principles, observability, and operational excellence in cloud environments
- Proven people leadership skills, including coaching, mentoring, capability development, and managing high-performing teams
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to influence and align across engineering, security, and business teams
About us
At YBS we don’t have shareholders, we have members. We care about people and that includes you. So here, you’ll be respected for who you are, you’ll be able to bring your whole self to work, and you’ll have everything you need to build a long and rewarding career.
- Flexibility. We offer a range of flexible working options without unsocial hours, which can help you find a healthy work-life balance. Whether it’s finishing early for an appointment or fitting your studies and hobbies in around your working hours, we can help make it work for you. We’re happy to talk flexible working and you can reach out to us anytime to discuss this during the recruitment process.
- Development. We want you to feel challenged here. Whatever your ambitions, we’re committed to helping you develop your skills and move ahead in your career journey. From day one, we’ll set you up for success with a brilliant induction and full training plan, all designed to get you up to speed quickly.
- Inclusivity. We’re passionate about creating an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome and able to be themselves. If you’ll go the extra mile to help our members, you’ll fit right in and feel you belong here.
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About our Benefits
We offer lots of fantastic rewards that you can make the most of in and out of work, including:
- Holiday. You’ll get 25 days plus Bank Holidays, as well as the option to buy up to a further 5 days.
- Bonus. At YBS we work collaboratively and share in our success together, so when we reach our goals we’re all rewarded with an on target bonus of 7% of eligible pay (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%).
- Pension. We know how important it is to save towards the future, that’s why we’ll contribute up 11% into your YBS pension.
- Healthcare. Health and wellbeing are an important part of life at YBS, when you join us you’ll have access to a range of health benefits to suit your life including private medical insurance, dental, and healthcare plans.
- My Benefits. When you join YBS you’ll have access to our self-service benefits portal, where you can access a range of retail, hospitality, and health discounts.
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If you’re excited about this role and want to be part of the YBS team, click apply now to send us your application.
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If you have any questions about this role, please contact careers@ybs.co.uk
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