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About the Role
As Head of Platform Engineering, you will own the strategy, delivery, and operation of easyJet's internal developer platform. This pivotal role involves leading teams, defining platform architecture, managing budgets, and driving developer experience in a revenue-critical, high-pace environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead 4-5 Platform, DevOps, and Developer Enablement teams through their managers, focusing on leader development, capacity planning, and talent growth.
- Define and drive the roadmap for the Internal Developer Platform and tooling, setting technical direction with Enterprise Architecture, and making build/buy decisions.
- Hold end-to-end accountability for delivery, ensuring quality, predictability, and pace, while proactively surfacing risks and driving continuous improvement.
- Manage the operating budget (opex) and headcount, implement a cost-effective tooling strategy, and embed FinOps for cloud spend management and value demonstration.
- Enhance developer experience by making the platform desirable, reducing friction, and utilizing metrics like DORA and feedback for continuous improvement.
- Oversee performance, resilience, and observability for revenue-critical services, ensuring security and compliance (e.g., PCI-DSS, GDPR).
- Align platform strategy with business goals and translate technical trade-offs into clear decisions for executive stakeholders.
Requirements
- Demonstrated expertise in modern platform engineering principles, including Continuous Delivery, Team Topologies, developer experience, and engineering culture.
- Proven track record of leading multiple engineering teams at scale as a leader of managers/leads, defining platform strategy, and achieving delivered outcomes.
- Experience owning budget and headcount, with commercial judgment to balance cost, speed, and risk.
- Strong cloud-native and modern DevOps background, including cloud platforms (ideally AWS), Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability.
- Sufficient engineering depth (e.g., Java, .NET, Python) to engage credibly with senior engineers.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, with a record of influencing at the executive level and growing engineering leaders.
- Experience building or operating an Internal Developer Platform or developer tooling (Backstage experience is a plus).
- Familiarity with tools such as Terraform, GitHub Actions, and Octopus (or equivalents), and FinOps/cloud cost management.
- Experience in regulated, high-availability, or high-transaction-volume domains (e.g., travel, retail, payments) is desirable.
- Ability to identify opportunities to drive greater success for the team and build strong relationships with internal stakeholders.
- Must not require visa sponsorship to work in the UK.
Skills
- Platform Engineering
- DevOps
- Developer Enablement
- Internal Developer Platform
- Cloud-Native
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- Infrastructure as Code
- Observability
- Java
- Python
- FinOps
- Team Topologies
- Continuous Delivery
- Developer Experience
- Engineering Culture
- Budget Management
- Headcount Management
- Communication
- Influencing
- Stakeholder Management
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions
- Octopus
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Head of
- Leader of managers/leads
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive base salary
- 30%25 bonus potential
Benefits
- 25 days holiday
- Pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Flexible benefits package
- Discounted staff travel scheme for friends and family
- Annual credit for discount on easyJet holidays
- ‘Work Away’ scheme (30 days abroad per year)
- Electric vehicle lease salary sacrifice scheme
About the Company
- easyJet is a FTSE-250 listed, multi-billion pound low-cost airline serving millions of customers annually across Europe.
- We operate over 1,207 routes, connecting 38 countries and employing over 18,000 colleagues.
- Our mission is to make low-cost travel easy, connecting people through Europe's best airline network, great value fares, and friendly service.
- Our Promise Behaviours are Safe, Bold, Welcoming, and Challenging.
Equal Opportunity
- easyJet is dedicated to fostering an inclusive workplace that reflects the diverse customers we serve across Europe.
- We welcome candidates from all backgrounds.
- We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to ensure accessibility and accommodation.