Manager of Infrastructure – Platform Engineering

Job summary

The Infrastructure Platform Engineering Manager serves as the design authority for hosting modern workloads on a container platform, combining architecture, engineering delivery, and team leadership. The role defines designs and standards for containerised applications and AI/ML workloads, contributes to Red Hat OpenShift, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD delivery, and develops hybrid patterns with Azure. It also leads technical evaluations, documentation, and collaboration across infrastructure and service teams.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of Kubernetes and OpenShift architecture, operations, security, networking, storage, multi-tenancy, and lifecycle management
• Strong knowledge of AI/ML platform architecture, GPU scheduling and allocation, and storage patterns for training and inference
• Advanced infrastructure as code capability using Terraform or equivalent
• Current, hands-on Kubernetes architecture experience; OpenShift experience preferred
• Experience designing AI/ML workloads on Kubernetes; OpenShift AI experience preferred
• Experience leading engineers or a lead-level track record involving mentoring, hiring, development planning, and performance conversations
• Experience delivering architecture with engineering teams through pairing, sprint participation, and operationally grounded design decisions
• Experience working effectively in distributed, asynchronous teams
• Exposure to NVIDIA DGX-class systems, InfiniBand or RoCE fabrics, and VAST Data or comparable HPC/AI storage is preferred
• Experience with vSphere or VMware Cloud Foundation and virtualisation-to-container transitions, including OpenShift Virtualisation, is preferred

Responsibilities

• Prioritise delivery for the Platform Engineering pillar, including backlog sequencing, work acceptance, estimation, and day-to-day trade-offs
• Lead solution designs, reference architectures, and global standards for container hosting and AI/ML workload placement
• Contribute to OpenShift, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD engineering delivery
• Develop hybrid patterns with the Azure-focused Technical Architect
• Author Architecture Decision Records for significant technology decisions and patterns
• Lead time-boxed vendor and product evaluations and develop recommendations
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams, design specifications, reference patterns, decision records, and operational guidance
• Coordinate with security, network, storage, application, monitoring, and service management teams
• Coach and mentor engineers and promote collaborative working practices

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Relocation