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About the Role
Lead the strategy, design, and operation of shared engineering platforms to enable product teams to build, release, and run software securely, reliably, and efficiently. This hands-on leadership role combines platform strategy, technical direction, operational excellence, and people leadership for Platform Engineering, SRE, and DevSecOps.
Responsibilities
- Define and lead the platform engineering strategy, roadmap, and operating model.
- Lead the evolution from on-premise hosting to a cloud-native platform model on AWS.
- Build, lead, and develop the Platform Engineering team.
- Own the design and evolution of shared engineering platforms, including cloud foundations, CI/CD, and observability.
- Help engineering teams move towards continuous deployment.
- Improve developer experience by providing reusable patterns, templates, standards, and golden paths.
- Enable the safe and effective use of AI within platform engineering and product development.
- Champion engineering excellence across automation, reliability, security, resilience, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Embed modern DevSecOps and SRE practices.
- Partner with security and architecture teams to ensure platforms are secure by design.
- Ensure platform capabilities support customers in highly regulated industries.
- Partner with the Data function to turn repeatable data platform needs into reusable services.
- Lead cloud and infrastructure cost management, embedding FinOps disciplines.
- Own and use DORA metrics to guide priorities and drive improvement.
Requirements
- Proven experience directly leading and developing platform engineering, cloud engineering, DevOps, SRE, DevSecOps, or infrastructure teams in a complex software product environment.
- Strong technical breadth across cloud-native platform engineering, including internal developer platforms, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, containerization, automation, and modern software delivery practices.
- Practical experience with platform engineering tooling and patterns such as Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, GitOps, policy as code, self-service provisioning, and secure-by-default platform capabilities.
- A strong understanding of secure software delivery, operational resilience, incident management, release automation, and production support models.
- A product mindset toward internal platforms, treating engineering teams as customers.
- Practical experience with cloud or infrastructure cost management and FinOps practices.
- A collaborative, pragmatic leadership style with the ability to balance hands-on technical involvement with strategic direction and team development.
- AWS experience is advantageous.
- Experience modernizing legacy or on-premise hosting environments into cloud-native platforms.
- Experience defining platform strategy, setting technical standards, and delivering shared capabilities.
- Prior experience working with customers in highly regulated industries and operating within certified environments.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills.
- Experience partnering with data, analytics, or AI/ML teams.
- Experience enabling or adopting AI-assisted and agentic engineering practices.
Skills
- Platform Engineering
- Cloud Engineering
- DevOps
- SRE
- DevSecOps
- Infrastructure Engineering
- Internal Developer Platforms
- Infrastructure as Code
- CI/CD
- Continuous Delivery/Deployment
- Observability
- Containerization
- Automation
- Modern Software Delivery Practices
- Terraform
- Kubernetes/EKS
- GitOps
- Policy as Code
- Self-Service Provisioning
- Secure-by-default Platform Capabilities
- Secure Software Delivery
- Operational Resilience
- Incident Management
- Release Automation
- Production Support Models
- Product Mindset
- Cloud Cost Management
- FinOps
- Stakeholder Management
- Data Platform Capabilities
- AI-Assisted Engineering
- Agentic Engineering Practices
Location
- Stoke-on-Trent (Head Office)
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid working
Experience Level
- Senior leadership role
- Proven experience directly leading and developing platform engineering, cloud engineering, DevOps, SRE, DevSecOps or infrastructure teams
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package designed to support wellbeing, development and work-life balance.
About the Company
- Synectics are a leading force in the provision of innovative, data‑driven business solutions.
- For more than 30 years, we have specialised in building complex data management and software products for well‑known organisations around the world.
- We pride ourselves on creating technology that makes a meaningful impact, supported by a collaborative and people‑focused culture.