Hybrid Engineering Manager – Environments

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About the role

  • 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

Job title

Engineering Manager – Environments

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Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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