Oliver Bernard
Platform Director
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Platform Director – £130-160K - Strategy, Transformation, People Management
Oliver Bernard are currently working with a Tech for Good company, based in London, who are looking to take on a Platform Director as they continue to scale across their Platform Engineering function.
The incoming profile will be responsible for driving strategy and Platform / DevOps best practices, whilst also being responsible for AI uptake and transformation across their function, and the broader business. Strategy and management are at the forefront of this role, but a hands-on engineering background across DevOps, SRE and / or Platform Engineering roles is a must have requirement: an understanding of how their team works in practice is required in order to shape and guide their engineers.
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Heading up the function will mean being part of the decision making for the broader function, working closely with the other tech teams in a cross-functional manner to improve the roadmap for the business as a whole, so experience working with teams of Developers, DevOps Engineers etc, is also required.
To be considered for this opening, the following experience is required:
- Ability to drive and scale Platform, DevOps and SRE strategies / roadmaps
- Proven experience managing, mentoring and coaching a team of Platform Engineers (ideally multiple squads)
- Strong stakeholder management skills (from both internal and external perspectives)
- Prior experience in Cloud (AWS), Container, IaC, CI/CD and Monitoring driven environments, comfortable scaling these practices
- Capable working 'at scale' on rapid, large-scale systems and platforms
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This position is only open to people with experience at Director level, operates a flexible working model (just monthly visits) and can offer £130-160K for the right profile (dependant on experience).
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