Platform Engineering Manager Cloud Foundations

Platform Engineering Manager Cloud Foundations Overview

Join Rightmove as a Platform Engineering Manager in our Cloud Foundations team, where you will play a crucial role in delivering a secure, reliable, and scalable platform that supports hundreds of engineers and numerous mission-critical services. This position is based in London and follows a hybrid working model, requiring at least two days in the office each week.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the Cloud Foundations team to ensure the delivery of secure, reliable, scalable, and cost-optimized platform foundations.
• Develop and execute a cloud platform strategy and roadmap that aligns with Rightmove’s business goals and internal customer needs.
• Manage the platform roadmap and ensure that initiatives and projects are delivered on time and meet expectations.
• Coach and mentor engineers, setting clear development goals and providing constructive feedback to enhance their skills and confidence.
• Foster an inclusive and psychologically safe environment for the team while ensuring the design and delivery of scalable, secure, and resilient platform services.
• Oversee incident management processes, ensuring timely post-incident reviews and follow-up actions are completed.
• Implement proactive monitoring and incident detection to maintain platform reliability and ensure smooth resolution of issues.
• Manage vendor relationships, ensuring due diligence is completed and contract costs and SLAs are negotiated effectively.
• Embed a culture of continuous improvement, regularly evaluating performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Requirements

• Proven experience in managing cloud operations and platform engineering, particularly in product-led technology environments.
• Hands-on experience with large cloud-based website environments, including technologies such as GKE, service mesh, load balancers, CDN/WAF, Kafka, and Elasticsearch.
• Strong knowledge of cloud services, including networking, compute, storage, containerization, security, and IAM.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Python, Go, CI/CD, Terraform, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to implement security controls, IAM policies, and cloud governance frameworks.
• Familiarity with platform engineering concepts and the ability to improve operational processes with documented procedures.
• Excellent leadership, team management, collaboration, and communication skills, especially in managing technical cloud teams.
• Experience in designing scalable and reliable cloud platform architectures.

Benefits

• Cash plan for dental, optical, and physiotherapy treatments.
• Private medical insurance, pension, and life insurance.
• Employee assistance plan.
• 27 days of holiday plus two paid volunteering days annually, with options for holiday buy schemes.
• Contributory stakeholder pension.
• Life assurance at four times the basic salary for beneficiaries.
• Competitive compensation package.
• Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption, and fertility.
• Travel loans, bike-to-work scheme, and rental deposit loans.
• Charitable contributions through payroll giving and donation matching.
• Access to discounts on travel, electronics, fashion, gym memberships, and cinema tickets.

At Rightmove, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We believe that a diverse team leads to better innovation and productivity. If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply through our website.

Degree Requirement: Not Specified

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