Company: Inara
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Job Description:
Engineering Manager: Cloud Platform | £600–£650/day | Contract (Inside IR35)
We’re looking for a technically grounded Engineering Manager to take ownership of a platform engineering team within a high-profile government organisation. This is a hands-on leadership role, you’ll guide the build of a production-grade cloud landing zone while shaping engineering standards across a wider programme.
The team sits within the Cloud Centre of Excellence and has its roots in DevOps, so CI/CD, automation, and infrastructure delivery are all part of the mix. You’ll be stepping into a principal engineering capacity as much as a people management one.
WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING
- Leading a team of three senior platform engineers, with three junior roles currently in hire
- Driving the design and delivery of a multi-cloud landing zone across AWS and Azure
- Setting technical direction, architecture patterns, IaC standards, container orchestration, automation approaches
- Acting as principal technical voice within the Cloud Centre of Excellence, providing guidance across the broader engineering community
- Supporting other delivery teams in building and managing their own cloud infrastructure
- Managing civil servant stakeholders across multiple concurrent workstreams
- Mentoring engineers at all levels, shaping career development and building long-term team capability
- Owning security and compliance standards across platform build and deployment pipelines
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- Demonstrable experience designing and delivering cloud landing zones at scale (AWS and/or Azure)
- Strong grounding in Terraform, Bash, Ansible, and GitHub Actions
- Background in platform or DevOps engineering, you understand the pipelines, not just the theory
- Comfortable operating in a government or regulated environment, you know how to navigate complexity and stakeholder politics without losing pace
- A leader who earns technical credibility by doing, not just directing
- Strong communicator at all levels, from junior engineers to senior civil servants
Please apply now as this one will move quickly!!
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Posted: May 24th, 2026