Platform Engineering Manager

Company: hackajob
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Location: London
Job Description:

hackajob is collaborating with Baringa Partners to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

What you will be doing

  • Focus on the hardening of environments and ensuring policies are planned and enforced
  • Implement and advocate for security best practices in all aspects of the development and deployment lifecycle
  • Ensure compliance with industry standards and manage risks associated with cloud deployments
  • Prioritize modularity and the toolchain produced by the platform engineering team to support accelerators and automation
  • Design, architect, develop, deploy, and evolve CI/CD systems to help our clients transition to cloud-based data analytics platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and leverage modern architecture patterns (e.g., APIs, events)
  • Write and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automate application deployment using industry-standard tools and services
  • Scale the services and toolchain produced by the platform engineering team to support accelerators and automation of configuration improvements
  • Build reusable, extensible, secure artifacts and drive Cloud and DevOps industry best practices on engineering teams
  • Design and implement solutions that ensure high availability and disaster recovery
  • Define and implement monitoring best practices and deploy health check agents
  • Ensure logging best practices are defined and implemented
  • Develop and process an alerting strategy to define severity and direct alerts appropriately
  • Translate business requirements (both functional and non-functional) into a simplified solution, ensuring compliance with the organisations strategy, policies and standards
  • Create high-level designs and architectures which deliver on the needs of the project
  • Financial operations and cost optimisations of infrastructure and proposed architecture

Your Skills And Experience

  • Experience in designing, architecting, and deploying CI/CD systems for modern data analytics platforms and modern web applications in the cloud
  • Skilled in writing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automating application deployment using industry standard tools and services
  • Hands on experience on designing, architecting and implementing security, High Availability, Disaster Recovery and monitoring aspects of cloud solutions.
  • Competent in at least one popular programming language, such as Python or JavaScript
  • 5+ years of experience in hands on delivery of devops, platform engineering, solution design, cloud architecture & development
  • Understanding of how to architect modern solutions in the cloud that are robust and scalable, striving for simplicity and low maintenance
  • Desire to support and help build internal development platforms and design systems to use as accelerators, using the developer teams as key stakeholders to drive and influence demand and prioritisation
  • Ability to justify and define best practices and standards, influencing the software development lifecycle policy
  • Experience of building robust modular CI/CD templates, that centralise and govern responsibility while always challenging raising the bar in quality for the development team
  • Comfortable to be challenged by other architect/security teams and explain the merits of your proposal
  • We expect applying candidates to hold or willing to obtain one of the below certifications or better: AWS Associate (Developer, Architect, SysOps) Azure Associate (Developer, Administration) GCP Associate (Cloud Engineer) Hashicorp: Terraform Associate

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Posted: August 4th, 2026