Engineering Manager leading engineering environments for product engineering teams at Hargreaves Lansdown. Focused on automation, observability, and supporting regulated financial services delivery.
Responsibilities
Lead and develop a team of platform and environment engineers focused on software-defined infrastructure, automation, and observability.
Own the lifecycle of engineering environments across production and non-production.
Ensure environments are consistently release-ready, supporting modern deployment practices while meeting financial services change and governance controls.
Drive automation and standardisation using Infrastructure as Code and configuration management, tightly integrated with CI/CD pipelines.
Build and evolve platform capabilities that enable self-service provisioning, consistency, and repeatability for development teams.
Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging to support application reliability, operational resilience, and regulatory expectations.
Lead large-scale platform improvement programmes, modernising legacy environment patterns and reducing technical debt.
Support disaster recovery and resilience testing from a platform and application continuity perspective.
Partner with security and risk teams to embed controls, auditability, and policy-as-code into environment platforms.
Oversee incident management, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements using SRE-style practices.
Collaborate closely with Product Engineering, Architecture, Security, and Delivery teams to align environments with software design and product needs.
Requirements
Strong engineering leadership experience with a software or platform-first mindset, ideally in regulated or complex environments.
Proven experience leading Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE teams.
Hands-on familiarity with on premise private cloud and public cloud platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code and tools such as Terraform and Puppet.
Experience delivering platform modernisation and technical debt reduction programmes at scale.
Strong understanding of software delivery lifecycles, release management, and deployment strategies in regulated environments.
Ability to engage deeply with engineers on system design, reliability, and architectural trade-offs.
Experience embedding security, compliance, and operational controls into software platforms.
Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts for risk, compliance, and senior leadership audiences.
Benefits
Discretionary annual bonus * and annual pay review
25 days * holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure
Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday **
Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
Enhanced parental leave
Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
Income Protection and Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
Private medical insurance*
Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and out patient care
Health screening programme
Help@hand - confidential support including mental health counselling and remote GP
Wellhub - unlimited access to fitness provider s and w ellness c oach sessions
Variety of travel to work schemes with bike storage and shower facilities
Inhouse barista and deli serving subsidised coffee and sandwiches
Two paid volunteering days per year * dependant on role level ** only available to select during our annual benefits window, in November each year
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