Job Description
This hybrid role offers a great balance of home and office working. You’ll join your colleagues in our Telford office at least 1 day per week.
As the UK’s largest fibre-only network, and its only proven wholesale challenger, we’re busy setting new standards for what digital infrastructure can and should be.
Designed from scratch for the internet, our network is greener, more reliable and ready for the future. The products we provide over it not only lead the market on speed, value and service, they help businesses to innovate, provide entire communities with a better foundation for their digital lives and support economic growth, locally and nationally.
What does that mean for you? The opportunity to make internet connections (and daily life) a whole lot better, for a lot of people!
Joining us as a Head of Platform Engineering
The Head of Platform Engineering is a key leadership role responsible for designing, developing, and implementing scalable platform solutions, driving SRE initiatives, optimising CI/CD pipelines, adopting DevSecOps practices, and enhancing AWS cloud infrastructure.
You’ll receive a competitive salary, a performance related bonus, and a range of benefits to support you across your financial, physical and mental wellbeing.
This is some of what you can expect to be doing:
* Defining and executing the platform engineering strategy to ensure scalability, reliability, security, and performance
* Leading the adoption of best practices in CI/CD, DevSecOps, SRE, and cloud-native technologies
* Implementing and managing robust observability and incident response processes to enhance system reliability and performance
* Driving the development and optimisation of CI/CD pipelines to accelerate software delivery and improve developer productivity
* Collaborating with DevOps teams and product managers to ensure seamless delivery of high-quality software products
What you’ll bring to the role
You will bring a wealth of experience in platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, and cloud infrastructure, along with strong leadership skills and a passion for driving continuous improvement and innovation. You’ll also have:
* Proven experience in leading platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure teams in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
* Deep expertise in CI/CD pipeline development and tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI, or equivalent
* Strong knowledge of SRE principles and experience improving system reliability and performance at scale
* Extensive experience with AWS cloud services and cloud-native architecture
Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We’re a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality. We’re endorsed by WORK180 and we’re a partner of Diversifying. We have pledged our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant and we’re a Disability Confident Employer. Working together with our Employee Networks, we’re wholly committed to ensuring that our people’s voices are heard, and that everyone feels a sense of belonging and pride to be a part of CityFibre. If you’d like to explore our culture and values, check out The CityFibre Way .
What you can expect from us
We want to offer you all the support you need to thrive inside and outside of work. This means giving you the tools to grow your career with us, as well as a comprehensive benefits package that you can adapt to your lifestyle. This includes 25 days annual leave, a day off on your birthday, a day off to support a charity or organisation of choice, a range of wellbeing and savings initiatives including private medical insurance, and supportive family friendly and menopause policies.
Additional Information
We want to create a sense of belonging for everyone. We celebrate our differences and work to ensure everyone has the best chance to succeed, starting with our recruitment process. No matter your background, family or carer status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, gender, or gender identity, we welcome your application. If you need any support or reasonable adjustments throughout the application process, please email us at careers@cityfibre.com. We want to help!