4Square Recruitment Ltd
Platform Engineering Manager
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Platform Engineering Manager
Location: 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
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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
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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.
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