Cloud Platform Engineering Manager

I am working with a client in the West Midlands who are looking for a Platform Engineering Manager with a ‘Platform First mindset that can provide strategic leadership to the existing team.

You will be coming into a mature team environment, where there is technical capability and proven delivery. What is lacking at the moment is leadership.

You won’t be coming in to turn things around, as they are already on track. This is about bringing inspiration and motivation to an already performing team.

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Technical capability is important, and in an ideal world you will have recent or current hands on experience with:

Running platforms in public cloud

Working in close proximity to Engineering teams in an environment that encourages transparency.

Experience building modern SaaS platforms

Strategic oversight, Roadmap delivery

Investigating Platform health and pushing boundaries

You should be the type of person that makes informed decisions and takes the time to investigate before jumping to conclusions.

You should follow best practice ITIL standards and can evidence this.

You should have a ‘Prioritisation through blast radius’ mindset; ranging tasks and alerts based on maximum damage if a failure or breach occurs.

This is an excellent team of talented individuals in a company where quality is paramount, and they need someone to enhance their already significant abilities. Is that you?, Line management of a cross functional team - covering Infrastructure and Software disciplines.

Platform as a Product

Understanding and appreciation of Cloud Platform Principles.

Experience enabling teams to go faster safely.

Azure preferred, other Cloud environments considered.

Architectural understanding.

Setting long term strategy.

Developing new services and capabilities.

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