Director - Platform Engineering

Director, Platform Engineering

UK Remote | Permanent | Leadership Opportunity

Candidates must have permanent eligibility to work in the UK.

Are you passionate about building world-class platforms that enable engineering teams to move faster, innovate confidently, and deliver at scale?

We are looking for a Director of Platform Engineering to lead the evolution of a modern platform engineering function. This is a strategic leadership role where you will shape the vision, roadmap, and operating model for a platform organisation responsible for cloud infrastructure, automation, reliability, identity, networking, and developer enablement.

This is an opportunity to influence how engineering is delivered across a growing technology business, driving platform adoption, operational excellence, and the use of emerging technologies including AI-assisted engineering.

The role

Define and execute the platform engineering strategy and long-term roadmap.
Lead and develop high-performing engineering teams across infrastructure, network, reliability, identity, and platform services.
Drive automation-first principles through Infrastructure as Code, self-service platforms, and engineering enablement.
Champion reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence across critical platforms.
Partner with technology and business leadership to align platform investment with organisational objectives.
Enhance developer productivity through modern platform tooling and engineering practices.
Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies, including AI-driven engineering capabilities and automation.
Build a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and accountability.

Your profile

We are interested in technology leaders who combine strategic vision with strong technical credibility.

Proven experience leading and developing production engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, and technical leadership.
Deep expertise in at least one Platform Engineering domain (Infrastructure, Network, Reliability/SRE, or Identity), with hands-on experience writing and reviewing code and Infrastructure as Code.
Strong knowledge of modern platform technologies including Terraform, Ansible, secrets management, service discovery, OIDC, observability, and public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP or OCI).
Demonstrated success delivering platform and infrastructure initiatives, managing budgets, vendors, and measurable improvements in service reliability, automation, and developer enablement.
Experience operating production services within regulated environments such as PCI DSS and SOX, including incident management, on-call ownership, and audit-ready controls.
Practical experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code, Codex or Cursor to accelerate software development, automation, infrastructure management, and operational investigations.
Understanding of MCP, agent-based tooling, AI governance, model selection, context management, verification, and secure AI adoption in engineering environments.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders through documentation, architecture reviews, incident reports, and strategic updates.

Desirable Experience

Experience with HashiCorp Vault, including dynamic secrets for databases, PKI and cloud.
Experience with HashiCorp Consul for service discovery.
Experience with Active Directory and Entra ID.
Experience with OpenTelemetry.
Experience with VMware vSphere, Palo Alto or HAProxy Enterprise at scale

Additional information

On the escalation rota for incidents in your platforms, with occasional out-of-hours work for planned changes and major incidents.
Fully remote, working with teams and stakeholders across locations and time zones.

What is on Offer

Fully remote working within the UK.
Opportunity to shape the future direction of a growing technology organisation.
High-impact leadership role with significant influence across technology strategy.
Collaborative and forward-thinking engineering culture.
Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.

If you are excited by the challenge of building modern engineering platforms and leading teams through the next generation of cloud, automation, and AI-enabled engineering, please get in touch.

Apply today or contact us for a confidential discussion.

Candidates must have permanent eligibility to work in the UK.