Platform Engineering Manager

Job summary

The Platform Engineering Manager at Open GI is a senior leadership role focused on leading the platform engineering team, fostering a high-trust culture, and advocating for a platform-as-a-product mindset. The position requires strong people leadership, technical credibility, and the ability to connect platform work to business impact while ensuring operational excellence.

Qualifications

• A track record of leading and growing engineering teams of 5-6 senior engineers.
• Demonstrable ability to take a team on a journey and shift how it thinks.
• Experience owning a platform, internal product, or service as a product.
• Strong stakeholder and influencing skills.
• A deep and credible cloud engineering background (Azure and infrastructure-as-code).
• Experience of owning production services, including incident management.
• Focus on outcomes: values impact over activity.
• Ownership mindset: accountable for results, trade-offs, and follow-through.
• Continuous improvement mindset: curious, reflective, and always raising the bar.
• Emotional intelligence as a leader to build trust, clarity, and psychological safety.

Responsibilities

• People leadership and team health
• Take the team on a journey: build a shared sense of purpose, raise the level of ownership, and grow individuals so the team's capability outlasts any single person, including you.
• Line manage, coach, and develop a team of platform engineers: performance, career growth, and day-to-day support.
• Create a safe, high-trust environment where engineers can learn, experiment, challenge, and improve without fear.
• Build genuine shared ownership for platform outcomes, quality, and reliability.
• Own the platform vision, value proposition, and roadmap.
• Embed the product mindset into the team.
• Be the platform's ambassador and envoy across the organisation.
• Set the direction for a portfolio of cloud platform services.
• Ensure services are self-service, discoverable, and opinionated.
• Own the production operation of platform services through the team.
• Build strong observability for platform services.
• Drive improvements in reliability, security, performance efficiency, and cost optimisation.
• Establish safe boundaries for teams building and running in Azure.
• Support delivery teams during security incidents and resilience events.
• Set and uphold the technical bar for production-grade engineering, security, and operability across platform services.
• Lead by example on engineering discipline.

Skills

Relocation