We are seeking a Head of Platform to lead our Platform team, who are responsible for building, running and securing our AWS-based highly available, efficient and scalable compute platform and cloud infrastructure. More than that, they work closely with our Product Engineering teams to define a golden path for technology, and help design and build efficient and reliable services, driving operational excellence, and creating a robust developer experience.
Reporting into the Director of Platform Engineering, youll be leading and developing a team of Platform engineers, working closely with your peers across the Platform Engineering Group, and collaborating with stakeholders from across the business in Product teams, Infosec and Data. Youll help the team to build tools, processes, platforms and capabilities that support our engineering teams. As we scale the business, youll also be driving cost-efficiency and critically, setting the strategic direction of what our technical platforms look like into the future.
Platform Engineering is part of the On the Beach Product & Technology department, collaborating closely with our partners in Product Engineering who build the technology to support our customers.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead the team: Lead and develop a team of ~10 engineers that provides efficient, resilient and performant technical platforms that support Product Engineering. Identify tools to improve the developer experience and remove friction and complexity for engineering teams.
* Manage vendor relationships: Own and manage the relationship with external suppliers that supply core services related to the operating of the platform, such as AWS, our CDN, and our Observability platforms.
* Drive cost efficiency: Establish and drive the key Fin-ops metrics that the business can use to determine the efficiency of the technical platform
* Build a platform Centre of Excellence: Help drive the golden path for core engineering practices such as CI/CD, Observability, health, quality and other initiatives, always accounting for the emergence of new opportunities, and allowing teams to understand the cost impact of new products and services.
* Focus on Operational Excellence: Drive continuous improvements in our platforms reliability, scalability, and performance.
* Steer the Platform Engineering Strategy: Own the strategic direction of the platform, factoring in opportunities provided by new technology, keeping the wider business strategy front and centre.
Skills and Experience:
* Leadership: Significant experience in leading engineering teams focused within the Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps or Platform Engineering spaces.
* Cloud Expertise: Extensive experience of cloud compute with AWS and Kubernetes, including EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, Terraform, and experience designing cost-efficient, secure, and high-performance platforms.
* Platform as a Product: experience of building platform tools that people want to use, through fostering a close relationship with product engineering teams.
* Communication and Stakeholder management: the ability to communicate complex technical ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
* Strategic Vision: Ability to think critically about the future of platform engineering, particularly as it relates to AI, automation, regional and edge compute. Drawing on the latest best practice in the platform engineering space. A passion for troubleshooting and resolving challenges with a focus on improving team efficiency.
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