Platform Engineering Manager
Posted 10 hours 31 minutes ago by Evotix EHS Academy Evotix Limited
Permanent
Full Time
Engineering Jobs
Not Specified, United Kingdom
Job Description
Platform Engineering Manager
Description Lead innovation, optimise infrastructure, and drive platform excellence.
Are you a hands-on technical leader with a passion for platform engineering and a focus on enabling modern, scalable infrastructure? At Evotix, we're looking for a Platform Engineering Manager to guide and grow our team as they design, develop, and support the infrastructure powering our products.
In this role, you'll mentor a team of platform engineers, champion AI-enhanced development practices, and ensure our platform delivers on security, performance, and resilience. You'll work closely with Product, Engineering, and Architecture teams to embed modern tools and techniques while staying ahead of emerging trends. From proactive platform operations to supporting critical issue resolution, your leadership will help us scale with confidence and deliver consistent value to customers.
If you're ready to lead by example and make a strategic impact, we'd love to hear from you.
What You'll Do
What You'll Bring
Why Join Evotix? At Evotix, we're transforming the way businesses approach health, safety, and wellbeing. Our team thrives on bold ideas, celebrates diversity, and embraces the power of collaboration.
Here's why you'll love working with us:
Join us at Evotix and help shape a people-first culture that supports our mission to create a healthier, safer future.
Apply now and start your journey with us!
Thank you for your interest. Please note, we are not seeking support from external recruitment agencies at this time. Direct applications from candidates are warmly welcomed.
Department: Software Engineering
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Remote, UK
Reporting To: Andy Potter
Description Lead innovation, optimise infrastructure, and drive platform excellence.
Are you a hands-on technical leader with a passion for platform engineering and a focus on enabling modern, scalable infrastructure? At Evotix, we're looking for a Platform Engineering Manager to guide and grow our team as they design, develop, and support the infrastructure powering our products.
In this role, you'll mentor a team of platform engineers, champion AI-enhanced development practices, and ensure our platform delivers on security, performance, and resilience. You'll work closely with Product, Engineering, and Architecture teams to embed modern tools and techniques while staying ahead of emerging trends. From proactive platform operations to supporting critical issue resolution, your leadership will help us scale with confidence and deliver consistent value to customers.
If you're ready to lead by example and make a strategic impact, we'd love to hear from you.
What You'll Do
- Mentoring, coaching, and supporting our platform engineers to succeed in their roles and further their professional development.
- Collaborating with our support teams operate our products effectively in production environments with a focus on proactive methods for minimising issues and downtime.
- Developing a secure, scalable, performant PaaS on AWS cloud in conjunction with technical leads and architects.
- Creating technical requirements and specifications for major software systems and subsystems.
- Communicating and presenting system solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Assisting with the development of technology and product roadmaps through researching, emerging and alternate technologies.
- Delivering development environments and software delivery pipelines to support our development agile teams and enable the adoption of continuous delivery practices.
- Defining and applying design patterns and guard rails platform infrastructure to platform infrastructure in collaboration with architects.
- Ensuring that our infrastructure as code adheres to agreed best practices throughout the software development lifecycle, including compliance with business accreditations.
- Supporting continuous improvement of platform engineering processes, tools, and skills.
- Focusing on appropriate use of the latest practices and tools to drive efficiency whilst maintaining quality
- Assisting with the development of technology and product roadmaps through researching, emerging and alternate technologies.
- Working with internal and external customers to better understand their needs.
- Understanding and demonstrating the company and engineering values and behaviours all the time (leading by example).
- Effectively managing the platform engineering team in a constructive manner.
- Owns and delivers medium scope of work. Demonstrates confidence in work breakdown and estimation.
- Ensures that their team has clear goals and the support they need to deliver.
- Takes responsibility for the team's performance.
- Enthusiastic, results driven, relied upon as a trusted problem solver within teams capable of solving critical problems or challenges.
- Engages with internal teams outside engineering, in cross functional initiatives.
- Engages with external technology partners in solving complex problems.
- Productivity and quality are consistently high.
- Identifies areas for improving efficiency, quality, and time to market of the team's output.
- Contributes to departmental goals and meets expectation.
What You'll Bring
- Minimum 10 years of experience in an engineering role, with at least 5 years in DevOps/Platform Engineering, and 5 years of AWS experience.
- Experience in building and managing high performance technical teams.
- Developing and operating PaaS for Cloud based SaaS solutions utilizing AWS with experience using serverless and managed services.
- Experience with modernisation of legacy SaaS applications to work in a cloud native platform.
- Analysis of SaaS platform cost to serve with the ability to identify and implement cost optimisation initiatives (including those that require engineering teams to make product software changes).
- Experience with DevSecOps lifecycle and managing it's application to cloud based SaaS products.
- SaaS platform performance and resilience (including backup and cross-region DR).
- Integrating third-party services/software with the PaaS and supporting the integration of third-party services/software into SaaS applications.
- Agile SDLC experience with Continuous Delivery.
- API, Microservices and event driven architectures.
- Python, and other scripting languages.
- Unit testing and TDD.
- Experience working with Database Administrator to build and operate SQL and NoSQL databases (OLTP and data warehouses).
- Documenting and communicating technical knowledge to teams.
- Problem solving in operational and development contexts.
- Migrating legacy application to the latest native cloud solutions.
- AI, ML, and cognitive services.
- Databricks
Why Join Evotix? At Evotix, we're transforming the way businesses approach health, safety, and wellbeing. Our team thrives on bold ideas, celebrates diversity, and embraces the power of collaboration.
Here's why you'll love working with us:
- Competitive Compensation: Enjoy a competitive base salary and company-based performance bonus.
- Time to Recharge: Unlimited Annual Leave and your birthday off!
- Financial Future: Generous tiered pension scheme that increases over time.
- Comprehensive Benefits: Private Medical Coverage.
- Support for You: Quarterly wellness days and access to our Employee Assistance Program, including mental health, legal, and financial guidance.
- Growth Opportunities: Educational benefits to help you keep learning and growing.
- Team Culture: Regular team events, an inclusive environment, and a shared commitment to making an impact.
Join us at Evotix and help shape a people-first culture that supports our mission to create a healthier, safer future.
Apply now and start your journey with us!
Thank you for your interest. Please note, we are not seeking support from external recruitment agencies at this time. Direct applications from candidates are warmly welcomed.