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Cloud Platform Manager - Developer Experience
Location: London or Manchester
Work Schedule: 1/2 days per week.
Salary: £100,000 - £120,000 + bonus
I've been supporting the growth of this client for 3 years, who were 10 years old in January and this year enjoying their first full financial year of profitability. It's a really exciting time to join. They are a technology-led fintech looking for a Platform Manager to take ownership of its internal platform product and lead the team building it.
This role exists to make engineers more effective. This specific team builds the tools, infrastructure and automation that remove day-to-day concerns from development teams allowing them to focus on delivering value, not wrestling with environments, pipelines or cloud complexity.
You’ll lead a platform team of four engineers (with plans to hire an additional team member) responsible for building and evolving an internal developer platform used across the engineering function.
The platform is treated as a product, not just infrastructure. That means reliability, usability and developer trust matter just as much as technical correctness.
This is a hands-on leadership role for someone with delivery focus and backbone someone who sees a problem, takes ownership and drives it through to a practical solution.
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What you’ll be responsible for
- Owning the Cloud Platform and Developer Experience as an internal product, with a clear roadmap focused on reliability, reuse and developer productivity
- Leading a platform team delivering reusable CI/CD pipelines, shared infrastructure patterns and automation that engineers can rely on
- Taking on the “nitty gritty” infrastructure and platform concerns so product teams don’t have to
- Improving platform reliability and consistency so engineers can move faster with confidence
- Acting as a strong people leader — coaching, supporting and growing a small but high-impact team
- Identifying friction points in the developer journey and turning them into solved problems
- Driving delivery end-to-end, from problem definition through to implementation and adoption
- Partnering closely with engineering leadership and stakeholders to ensure the platform enables business growth
- Ensuring platform services meet security, operational and regulatory requirements
About you
- You’ve led or built cloud platforms, internal developer platforms or DevEx tooling before
- You think in terms of products, not just projects or infrastructure
- You’re a strong people leader who enjoys building teams and holding them accountable for outcomes
- You’re delivery-focused, pragmatic and comfortable making decisions
- You enjoy solving hard, messy problems and taking ownership
- You have experience with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD and modern engineering practices
- Experience in regulated environments is a plus, but mindset and approach matter most
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Why this role stands out
- You’ll own and shape a platform that directly impacts every engineer in the organisation
- You’ll join at a point of rapid growth where the platform needs to scale with the business
- You’ll have real autonomy to improve how engineering works day to day
- Your impact will be visible quickly
Package
- Up to £115,000
- Annual bonus (paid for the last 7 years)
- 25 days’ annual leave plus your birthday off
- Pension contribution
- Life assurance
- Private medical cover
- Hybrid working (2 days in office ideally, but will flex for the right person)
- And if you work 60 miles from office all travel is paid.
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