Platform & Workplace Engineering Director

Company: Jobtailor
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

  • Leading and developing two engineering teams — Cloud Platform (cloud infrastructure, observability, SRE, incident response) and Enterprise Services (IT support, IAM, Okta, Slack and core SaaS) — setting technical direction, hiring and performance standards across both.
  • Delivering the reliability, performance and cost-efficiency of the cloud platform underpinning production services, including SLOs, on-call and incident response practices, and post-incident learning, in line with the broader infrastructure strategy.
  • Executing the roadmap for enterprise services and identity, treating internal IT as an engineering discipline — automation-first, self-service where possible, and measured on employee productivity and security outcomes.
  • Tracking and reporting meaningful operational metrics — availability, MTTR, change failure rate, identity hygiene, endpoint and SaaS posture, support responsiveness — and using them to drive continuous improvement within the function.
  • Acting as a senior operational escalation point for major incidents across both production and corporate environments, leading technical response and keeping the VP and wider stakeholders informed.

Requirements

  • A track record of leading engineering teams at scale (managers of managers experience preferred)
  • Deep credibility in either cloud platform or modern enterprise engineering — and the breadth to lead both.

Hard Skills

  • Cloud Infrastructure
  • Observability
  • Site Reliability Engineering
  • Automation
  • Performance Metrics
  • Incident Response Practices
  • SLO Management
  • Identity Hygiene
  • Endpoint Security
  • SaaS Management

Soft Skills

  • Stakeholder Communication
  • Team Development
  • Performance Standards Setting

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Posted: July 11th, 2026