Hybrid Manager, Platform Design

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About the role

  • Manager, Platform Design leading a team of engineers at CloudPay. Focus on infrastructure solutions, CI/CD, and DevOps excellence while fostering a collaborative culture.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of platform engineers, fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing culture.
  • Provide expert technical guidance to the team, ensuring all implementations align with architectural standards and industry best practices.
  • Manage the full performance lifecycle, including regular reviews, feedback, and the creation of development plans to facilitate engineering growth.
  • Effectively allocate tasks and resources to ensure timely project delivery and optimal team utilization across multiple workstreams.
  • Partner closely with Platform Architect and the Director to define designs, translate vision into actionable roadmaps, and dissolve complex technical challenges.
  • Lead the design and implementation of complex infrastructure solutions using Terraform, ensuring they scale with CloudPay's global requirements.
  • Drive the design and development of major IDP features, ensuring the platform enhances developer productivity and adheres to scalability principles.
  • Evangelize and drive the continuous improvement of DevOps practices across the department, ensuring alignment with modern architectural principles.
  • Act as the escalation point for complex production support project, guiding the team through root cause analysis (RCA) and implementing long-term solutions to minimize downtime.
  • Design and maintain robust, efficient CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment of infrastructure and applications.
  • Refine automated testing framework to guarantee the reliability and security of all platform components.
  • Implement comprehensive monitoring and alerting solutions to proactively detect and mitigate issues within the CI/CD pipelines and the broader platform.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience in infrastructure engineering or DevOps, with a proven track record of managing or leading technical teams.
  • Demonstrated success in mentoring engineers to achieve technical excellence and career progression.
  • Deep Technical Expertise: Mastery of Terraform, CI/CD tooling (e.g., Argo CD, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD), and major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
  • Proficiency in programming/scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Groovy.
  • Advanced knowledge of networking, security, and system administration.
  • Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and strategic decision-making abilities.
  • Ability to prioritize and manage multiple high-impact projects in a fast-paced environment.
  • A passion for automation, technical excellence, and continuous operational improvement.

Benefits

  • Competitive Salary
  • Competitive vacation allowance
  • Calm app
  • WFH Allowance
  • Life Assurance
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Cycle to Work Scheme
  • EAP
  • Eye Tests & Glasses Contribution
  • Simplyhealth Enhanced Health Plan
  • Pension Scheme
  • Give-As-You-Earn (GAYE)
  • Employee Referral Program
  • CloudPay NOW
  • Paid Volunteering days
  • Marriage Leave
  • Bereavement Leave
  • Vacation Purchase Plan

Job title

Manager, Platform Design

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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