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Cloud Platform Engineering Manager

Hunter SelectionWest Midlands, UK🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 18 Sept 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid role offers a competitive salary of up to £77k and the opportunity to provide strategic leadership and inspiration to a high-performing platform engineering team. You will thrive here if you possess a 'Platform First' mindset, enjoy fostering transparency, and have experience with public cloud and modern SaaS platforms, allowing you to enhance an already talented team. Apply now to bring your expertise to this reputable company and shape the future of their cloud infrastructure.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
West Midlands, UK, United Kingdom
Posted
14 hours ago
DockerAnsibleAzureKubernetesTerraform

Job Description

Cloud Platform Engineering Manager

Up to £77k

West Midlands - Hybrid - twice per week in the office

Benefits:

Bonus Scheme

Hybrid Working

I am working with a client in the West Midlands who are looking for a Platform Engineering Manager with a 'Platform First mindset that can provide strategic leadership to the existing team.

You will be coming into a mature team environment, where there is technical capability and proven delivery. What is lacking at the moment is leadership.

You won't be coming in to turn things around, as they are already on track. This is about bringing inspiration and motivation to an already performing team.

The right person will recognise what is working and encourage continuity, whilst taking the senior responsibilities over and managing efficiently.

Technical capability is important, and in an ideal world you will have recent or current hands on experience with:

Running platforms in public cloud

Working in close proximity to Engineering teams in an environment that encourages transparency.

Experience building modern SaaS platforms

Strategic oversight, Roadmap delivery

Investigating Platform health and pushing boundaries

You should be the type of person that makes informed decisions and takes the time to investigate before jumping to conclusions.

You should follow best practice ITIL standards and can evidence this.

You should have a 'Prioritisation through blast radius' mindset; ranging tasks and alerts based on maximum damage if a failure or breach occurs.

This is an excellent team of talented individuals in a company where quality is paramount, and they need someone to enhance their already significant abilities. Is that you?

Key responsibilities and experience:

Line management of a cross functional team - covering Infrastructure and Software disciplines.

Platform as a Product

Understanding and appreciation of Cloud Platform Principles.

Experience enabling teams to go faster safely.

Azure preferred, other Cloud environments considered.

Architectural understanding.

Setting long term strategy.

Developing new services and capabilities.

Deliver and maintain reliable, secure, and performant platform improvements.

This is an urgent vacancy, so if this feels like a good fit for you then please apply quoting reference AR103037.

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If you are interested in this position please click 'apply'.

Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent & contract roles within Engineering & Manufacturing, IT & Digital, Science & Technology and Service & Sales sectors.


Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.


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