Head of Platform Engineering

Overview

In this role you will lead and evolve a scalable, secure platform that empowers product engineering teams to deliver software rapidly. You will manage and grow a ~20-strong mix of internal and external engineers, shaping a high-performing, collaborative culture. You’ll drive modern Platform Engineering and DevOps practices, with a focus on automation, self-service tooling, and reliable, observable infrastructure. This is a strategic leadership role with impact on cloud, data streaming, and developer experience, aligned with the company’s technology and innovation priorities.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Remote working up to 2 weeks/year
• 25 days holiday (up to 35)
• Private medical insurance (AXA)
• Life assurance (4x salary)
• Pension scheme matches contributions up to 4%

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a ~20-person Platform Engineering team (internal and external)
• Foster an inclusive, high-performing engineering culture and manage delivery priorities
• Oversee scalable, secure, reliable platform infrastructure and operations
• Advance Infrastructure as Code adoption (Terraform, Ansible)
• Drive Kubernetes evolution and centralized tooling for self-service
• Ensure platform services are resilient, observable, and scalable
• Define and evolve cloud architecture across AWS and GCP
• Guide event-driven data streaming with Kafka
• Collaborate with Product, Architecture, Security, and Ops to align platform capabilities with needs
• Promote continuous improvement with monitoring, logging, and data-driven improvements

Key requirements

• Significant experience leading Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE or Cloud Engineering teams
• Experience managing sizeable engineering teams (internal and external)
• Strong knowledge of AWS and/or GCP and cloud-native architecture
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes and containerised environments
• Strong Terraform and Ansible experience
• Experience designing event-driven architectures using Kafka
• Understanding of CI/CD, automation, and modern DevOps practices
• Experience building internal platforms, developer tooling and self-service capabilities
• Strong focus on reliability, observability, security and scalability
• Ability to use engineering metrics to drive improvements and to influence senior stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills to influence engineers and leaders

• leadership
• stakeholder influencing
• collaboration
• AWS
• GCP
• Kubernetes

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