Your key responsibilities
This is a senior, dual-mode leadership role for someone who can operate equally well as a technical practitioner and a people-focused engineering manager. The Cloud Platform Engineering Manager owns the vision, delivery, and operation of internal cloud platform services — treating those services as a product with internal development teams as customers. They'll remain hands‑on technically (architecture, IaC, code, incidents) while also leading a team, managing stakeholder relationships across engineering, security, and architecture, and driving the cultural shift toward platform thinking. The role sits at the intersection of product, engineering, and operations, with a strong emphasis on reducing cognitive load for delivery teams, raising the engineering bar, and building a healthy, high‑trust team.
Platform‑as‑a‑Product leadership
- Own the platform vision, value proposition, and roadmap for cloud platform services, grounded in internal customer needs and measurable outcomes.
- Treat stream‑aligned teams as customers, maintaining strong feedback loops and iterating the platform based on real usage and pain points.
- Evangelise platform thinking across the organisation: the platform should be chosen, not mandated.
Hands‑on engineering leadership
Act as a senior engineer within the platform team, contributing directly to:
- Architecture and design decisions
- Code, IaC, and platform automation
- Technical reviews and quality standards
- Incident response and post‑incident learning
- Set the technical bar for production‑grade engineering, security, and operability across platform services.
- Lead by example in applying engineering discipline: testing, automation, observability, documentation, and continuous improvement.
Cloud platform services & paved roads
- Build and evolve a portfolio of cloud platform services (e.g. landing zones, CI/CD enablement, IaC patterns, identity and access guardrails, runtime patterns, observability, vulnerability scanning, backup and DR)
- Ensure services are self‑service, discoverable, and opinionated, making the secure and reliable path the easiest path.
- Reduce cognitive load by curating complexity, not pushing it onto delivery teams.
Operational excellence & platform health
Own the production operation of platform services:
- Clear service ownership
- SLOs / SLAs and error budgets
- On‑call and incident management
- Post‑incident reviews and learning loops
- Build strong observability for platform services and connect technical signals to customer and product impact where possible.
- Drive improvements in reliability, security, performance efficiency, and cost optimisation, including the use of Azure Well‑Architected reviews.
- Prefer mechanisms over manual process: policy‑as‑code, automation, guardrails, and continuous controls that scale with adoption.
Governance, risk, and enablement
- Establish safe boundaries for teams building and running in Azure, balancing autonomy with compliance and risk management
- Work with security, architecture, and delivery teams to ensure platform services actively reduce risk, rather than shifting it
- Support delivery teams during security incidents and resilience events, improving the platform based on real failures
People leadership & team health
- Line manage and grow the platform engineering team: coaching, mentoring, performance management, and career development.
- Create a safe, high‑trust environment where engineers can learn, experiment, and improve.
- Build a strong sense of shared ownership for platform outcomes, quality, and reliability.
Your key responsibilities
This is a senior, dual-mode leadership role for someone who can operate equally well as a technical practitioner and a people-focused engineering manager. The Cloud Platform Engineering Manager owns the vision, delivery, and operation of internal cloud platform services — treating those services as a product with internal development teams as customers. They’ll remain hands‑on technically (architecture, IaC, code, incidents) while also leading a team, managing stakeholder relationships across engineering, security, and architecture, and driving the cultural shift toward platform thinking. The role sits at the intersection of product, engineering, and operations, with a strong emphasis on reducing cognitive load for delivery teams, raising the engineering bar, and building a healthy, high‑trust team.
Platform‑as‑a‑Product leadership
- Own the platform vision, value proposition, and roadmap for cloud platform services, grounded in internal customer needs and measurable outcomes.
- Treat stream‑aligned teams as customers, maintaining strong feedback loops and iterating the platform based on real usage and pain points.
- Evangelise platform thinking across the organisation: the platform should be chosen, not mandated.
Hands‑on engineering leadership
Act as a senior engineer within the platform team, contributing directly to:
- Architecture and design decisions
- Code, IaC, and platform automation
- Technical reviews and quality standards
- Incident response and post‑incident learning
- Set the technical bar for production‑grade engineering, security, and operability across platform services.
- Lead by example in applying engineering discipline: testing, automation, observability, documentation, and continuous improvement.
Cloud platform services & paved roads
- Build and evolve a portfolio of cloud platform services (e.g. landing zones, CI/CD enablement, IaC patterns, identity and access guardrails, runtime patterns, observability, vulnerability scanning, backup and DR)
- Ensure services are self‑service, discoverable, and opinionated, making the secure and reliable path the easiest path.
- Reduce cognitive load by curating complexity, not pushing it onto delivery teams.
Operational excellence & platform health
Own the production operation of platform services:
- Clear service ownership
- SLOs / SLAs and error budgets
- On‑call and incident management
- Post‑incident reviews and learning loops
- Build strong observability for platform services and connect technical signals to customer and product impact where possible.
- Drive improvements in reliability, security, performance efficiency, and cost optimisation, including the use of Azure Well‑Architected reviews.
- Prefer mechanisms over manual process: policy‑as‑code, automation, guardrails, and continuous controls that scale with adoption.
Governance, risk, and enablement
- Establish safe boundaries for teams building and running in Azure, balancing autonomy with compliance and risk management
- Work with security, architecture, and delivery teams to ensure platform services actively reduce risk, rather than shifting it
- Support delivery teams during security incidents and resilience events, improving the platform based on real failures
People leadership & team health
- Line manage and grow the platform engineering team: coaching, mentoring, performance management, and career development.
- Create a safe, high‑trust environment where engineers can learn, experiment, and improve.
- Build a strong sense of shared ownership for platform outcomes, quality, and reliability.
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