Platform Engineering Manager

Role: Platform Engineering Manager

Salary: £60,000 - £70,000 + exceptional pension + package

Location: Remote with occasional UK travel

I am working with a fantastic organisation who are in a period of growth. They are looking to hire a Platform Engineering Manager with a broad Azure background. Heading up a team of 10 Platform Engineers you will play a vital role in the shaping of the organisation's Azure platform. This role will give you see you working with the latest Microsoft technologies delivering platforms and services that make a real difference.

The organisation are a truly people-centric organisation who value their staff and offer a true work/life balance. The organisation make a really positive contribution to the UK and this role offers the opportunity to make a real difference within the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Platform Engineers to design, build test and maintain the cloud application infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines that underpin all internal and external Digital services.
• Ensure security, stability and capacity is Embedded in the development and deployment of services.
• Champion a Platform Engineering culture by creating and building close collaboration and working practices between the product, engineering and operational business services teams supported by the appropriate use of automation tools.
• Manage and develop the Platform Engineering capability by providing technical leadership for the in-house team and external suppliers.
• Contribute to business case development, articulating benefits and return on investment. Ensure solutions delivered to time, cost and quality requirements.
• Design solutions and services with security controls Embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats as a core part of the solutions and services.
• Lead the teams in support, design and implementation of infrastructure technologies and solutions such as: compute, storage, networking, physical infrastructure, database, software, commercial off the shelf (COTS) and open source packages and solutions, virtual and cloud including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.

Required Skills/Experience

• Demonstrable experience managing highly skilled Platform Engineers, DevOps Engineers or Software Engineers including mentoring and driving best practice.
• Strong technical background, either from a software engineering or infrastructure engineering background, with strong experience in Platform Engineering tooling and techniques.
• Experienced driving efficiencies, through automation and process design and implementation in particular in the automation of application deployment methodologies.
• Experience of building and optimising deployment pipelines and deployment strategies on popular CI/CD tools such as Jenkins.
• Experience designing, securing, scaling and administering cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure.
• Experience managing complex, multi-server services in a high availability production environment.
• Solid understanding of containerisation, ideally having implemented Docker containers into production environments.
• Experience of Agile tools and processes eg Azure DevOps etc.
• Knowledge and understanding of latest trends in DevOps/Platform Engineering methodologies, processes, and tools as well as emerging solutions and ability to apply them when appropriate.

If this role would be of interest, then please apply to this advert and I will be in contact to give you more detail.

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