Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering - Infra

Own roadmap and delivery – Drive prioritisation, planning and execution across the domain, balancing platform improvements, operational commitments and organisational priorities.

Lead and develop high-performing teams – Build the right team structure, skills and culture while owning recruitment, performance, career development and succession planning.

Drive technical excellence – Partner with Tech Leads and Architects to challenge technical decisions, manage risks and ensure platform solutions are reliable, secure and maintainable.

Own platform performance and stability – Monitor SLAs/SLOs, service health and engineering metrics, driving continuous improvement, reducing incidents and improving reliability.

Lead operational excellence – Ensure operational readiness, observability, incident management and effective RCA, acting as an escalation point for major incidents and ensuring preventative actions are delivered.

Partner across the organisation – Work with application engineering teams, Architects and Engineering Leaders to understand needs, manage expectations, remove blockers and continuously improve platform capabilities and ways of working.

Strong technical background with the ability to understand complex systems, review changes and challenge technical decisions.

Experience leading and developing engineering teams, including recruitment, performance and career development.

Strong roadmap, prioritisation and delivery management skills, with accountability for quality and timelines.

Experience working with Tech Leads, Architects, Product and engineering stakeholders.

Good understanding of platform engineering, cloud, CI/CD, automation and Infrastructure as Code.

Strong understanding of observability, reliability and production operations.