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Head of Cloud Platform Engineering
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Head of Cloud Platform Engineering | AWS | Fully Remote
I’m currently working on an exciting opportunity for a hands-on Head of Cloud Platform Engineering to take ownership of a critical AWS cloud estate supporting technology at national scale.
This is a role for someone who enjoys being both the technical leader and the engineer. You’ll have the opportunity to shape cloud architecture, lead a high-calibre platform team and influence the wider engineering strategy — while still getting hands-on with the technology.
The Role
You’ll take ownership of:
- AWS cloud architecture and platform engineering
- Cloud-native infrastructure and open-source technologies
- Kubernetes & Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform and CI/CD
- Cloud security, IAM and compliance
- FinOps and cloud cost optimisation
- High availability, resilience & disaster recovery
- Observability, incident management & SRE practices
- Technical standards and engineering guardrails
- Building and developing a small platform engineering team
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The environment supports critical energy and smart-metering infrastructure, so reliability, security, scalability and operational excellence are fundamental to the role.
What I'm Looking For
I'm particularly interested in speaking with people who have:
- Deep, hands-on AWS experience
- Strong cloud/platform engineering experience
- Excellent Terraform / IaC skills
- Kubernetes experience
- Strong CI/CD knowledge
- Experience designing highly available, production-scale platforms
- Cloud security & IAM experience
- FinOps / cloud cost optimisation experience
- Experience with incident management and SRE practices
- Previous technical leadership or team management experience
Energy/utilities experience would be highly advantageous, particularly experience within a regulated or critical-infrastructure environment.
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The Key Thing
This isn't a role for someone who has moved completely away from engineering. I'm looking for someone who can comfortably move between:
- Strategic leadership
- Architecture
- Team leadership
- Keyboard time
Someone who can speak to senior stakeholders about the future of the platform in the morning and then get hands-on with AWS, Terraform or Kubernetes when required.
Location
Fully Remote | UK
Salary
Competitive salary, dependent on experience
If you're a Head of Cloud, Head of Platform, Cloud Engineering Manager, Principal/Staff Engineer or senior AWS engineer ready to step into a Head-of-level position, I'd be keen to have a confidential conversation.
Drop me a message or connect with me and I'll share the full details.
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