Platform Engineering Manager

Embed Secure-by-Design principles and secure engineering practices across platform services, engineering tooling and Engineering teams.

Ensure platform services, engineering tooling and third-party platform solutions are implemented and operated in accordance with approved security policies, standards and control frameworks.

Work with Security team on vulnerability remediation, platform hardening and security improvement initiatives.

Ensure platform services provide appropriate security, monitoring, logging and auditability capabilities.

Support security assurance, audit and remediation activities relating to platform services and engineering tooling.

Lead and support Platform Engineering chapter members through coaching, performance management and career development.

Provide guidance and mentoring to DevOps Engineers embedded within product teams, supporting consistent engineering practices and capability development.

Support recruitment, onboarding and retention activities within the Platform Engineering chapter.

Encourage knowledge sharing, collaboration and continuous improvement across Platform Engineering and wider engineering teams.

Maintain visibility of team capacity, skills development needs and operational risks.

Foster a culture of ownership, accountability and engineering professionalism.

Leading a Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Operations or Infrastructure Engineering team.

Operating and supporting cloud platforms and technology services within a production environment.

Managing service reliability, incident response, operational resilience and continual service improvement activities.

Implementing and supporting Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, automation tooling and engineering enablement practices.

Evaluating, implementing or supporting AI-enabled engineering capabilities, including developer productivity tooling, automation solutions across engineering teams.

Working with third-party technology suppliers and managed service providers.

Supporting secure engineering practices and collaborating with Security, Architecture and Engineering teams.

Coaching and developing engineers within either direct or matrix management structures.

AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms.

Infrastructure as Code and automation tooling.

CI/CD platforms and developer productivity tooling.

Observability, monitoring and operational reporting practices.

Secure engineering and security-by-design principles.

Incident management, operational resilience and disaster recovery concepts.

AI-assisted software engineering practices and the application of AI agents within DevOps, SecOps, FinOps and operational support workflows.

Modern Platform Engineering, DevOps and cloud operations practices

Collinson is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all their forms including: colour, race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodivergence, family status, age, individuals with disabilities and people from all backgrounds, cultures and experiences as we strongly believe this contributes to our on-going success.

We are focused on continually evolving our purpose driven, high performing culture, providing an environment where our people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential and do interesting and meaningful work. Our company values are: Take Action, Do the right thing, One team and Be insight led. These help guide everything we do internally in terms of how we think, act and interact, right through to how we deliver value to our customers and clients.

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