Platform Engineering Manager
2 days ago
Winchester
Platform Engineering Manager \n \n We’re looking for an experienced Platform Engineering Manager to lead and develop an established platform engineering team and help shape the future direction of an internal cloud platform. \n \n This is primarily a leadership role, suited to someone who understands what great platform engineering looks like and is passionate about creating an environment where engineers can perform at their best. \n \n You’ll lead a team of experienced and mid-level engineers across software, infrastructure and cloud, helping them develop, creating a high-trust culture and giving the team clear direction and purpose. \n \n Alongside the people leadership, you’ll have significant autonomy to shape the platform roadmap, improve operational maturity and determine how the platform should evolve as the organisation continues to grow. \n \n The role is approximately 70% leadership / 30% technical, so you won’t be expected to spend your days writing Terraform or building cloud infrastructure. However, you’ll need enough platform and public-cloud knowledge to challenge experienced engineers, understand architectural decisions and set a strong technical direction. \n \n What you'll be doing \n Lead, coach and develop a distributed team of platform engineers \n Create a safe, collaborative and high-ownership engineering culture \n Set the strategic direction and roadmap for the internal platform \n Champion a platform mindset focused on improving developer experience \n Help engineering teams reduce friction through self-service and well-designed platform capabilities \n Improve the operational maturity, reliability and scalability of the platform \n Work closely with engineering, architecture, security and technology leadership \n Provide technical direction and challenge while empowering engineers to own implementation \n Help define what the platform needs to become as the organisation grows \n What we're looking for \n Previous experience managing a Platform, Cloud, DevOps or SRE engineering team \n Strong people leadership, coaching and team-development experience \n A genuine understanding of modern platform engineering and developer enablement \n Experience working with public cloud environments such as Azure, AWS or GCP \n Ability to set strategy and build a longer-term platform roadmap \n Enough technical credibility to work effectively with experienced engineers \n Strong stakeholder and communication skills \n An energetic, collaborative leadership style that inspires teams and creates psychological safety \n \n You do not need to be the most hands-on engineer in the team. The key is understanding what good platforms look like, developing great engineers and creating a platform that genuinely makes software delivery easier. \n \n There is a high degree of autonomy in the position, with the opportunity to shape both the platform and your own progression as the function continues to mature.