Platform Engineering Manager
Join a cutting edge Brokerage House in the heart of The City and lead a team creating a platform where building, testing, and releasing of software can happen rapidly, frequently and reliably.
You will be a DevOps advocate working closely with development and operations teams improving collaboration whilst removing any impediments through automation, improved tooling, or processes. You will oversee the use of our AWS and Azure Cloud environments, ensuring they are resilient and secure whilst providing our teams the capabilities to innovate rapidly.
The Platform Engineering function strives to automate infrastructure management and provide the company's technology teams with self-service tools and workflows with the aim to streamline software delivery in the cloud or on-premises and accelerate the pace of innovation.
Responsibilities
- Identify and manages resources needed for the planning, development and delivery of cloud resources and applications.
- Influences the IT department through automation, cloud best practises, observability and monitoring and managing the performance of automated systems and services.
- Work with systems architects to ensure application-level considerations are met when implementing solutions.
- Develops and builds the team, defining career pathways and identifying new talent to expand the team's skillset and knowledge.
- Deliver and maintain a continuous integration and deployment platform that integrates with the internal application process and internal controls.
- Reporting on costs and seeks opportunities to reduce spend.
- Improving the cloud security posture and reporting on risks.
- Ensuring cloud platform are resilient to availability zone outages.
- Maintaining an inventory of services under the team's ownership.
- Manage vendor relationships and license renewals for services.
- Responsibility for the architecture and security standards within the cloud, ensuring audit and financial safeguards are adhered to.
- Creating and enforcing cloud governance policies, aligned with industry standards.
- Stay abreast of SDLC and Cloud best practices and guide the team on adoption.
- Effectively manage on-call rotas to ensure round the clock service availability and be a point of escalation as required.
Competencies
- A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment
- Demonstrates curiosity
- Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment
- Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others
- Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness
Essential
Skills and Experience:
- Managing a team of experienced cloud/software engineers.
- Agile, Scrum, Kanban.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience with all aspects of SDLC.
- Extensive hands on with AWS.
- Proficiency in Python or PowerShell.
- Infrastructure as code, Terraform or CloudFormation
- Containerisation, docker, ECS, EKS, Kubernetes.
- Security of the cloud, monitoring, compliance, IAM.
Desirable
- Cloud cost optimisation.
- Maturing practices in the cloud and applying to on-premises platforms.
- Hands on with Azure.
- Delivery and management of Observability and monitoring platforms.
- Implementation of API gateways, Lambda.
- Working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this.
If you're forging a career in this area and are looking for your next step, get in touch!