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About the Role
As the Cloud Platform team scales, we are evolving our infrastructure to meet the diverse needs of a global engineering effort. We aren’t just building a platform; we are redefining the developer experience and pushing the technical limits of what cloud infrastructure can achieve.
Responsibilities
- Champion a culture of continuous improvement, providing meaningful mentorship and constructive feedback that helps engineers grow.
- Drive team performance by resolving bottlenecks, fostering accountability, and sustaining high engagement to ensure consistent delivery & resource efficiency.
- Drive the adoption of AI within the team, ranging from day to day operations to large scale projects.
- Foster open, transparent communication across remote, hybrid, and in-person environments.
- Stay hands on in Cloud and Platform engineering, leading by example at a technical level.
- Define and enforce platform engineering best practices that ensure consistency, scalability and operational excellence across the organisation.
- Partner with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and QA to align strategy and turn ideas into well-executed outcomes.
- Contribute to product decisions, bringing a platform perspective that balances speed, quality and scalability.
- Proactively identify and mitigate risk before they become blockers.
- Embed DevSecOps principles; ensuring security, monitoring, compliance, and automation are built in from the start.
Requirements
- Confident, decisive and supportive leader with experience managing Cloud / Platform engineering teams.
- Natural ability to lead cross functional teams, working with engineering teams, QA and other stakeholders.
- Strong communicator who can bridge the gap between technical and non-technical audiences.
- Deep understanding of modern cloud / platform engineering practices and scalable system architectures.
- Experience driving a culture around reliability, performance and continuous improvement.
- Proven experience working & scaling the platform to support a fast paced containerised environment.
Skills
- Azure
- Cloud technologies
- Cloud / Platform Engineering tools
- DevSecOps
Location
- London (Moorgate)
Work Type
- 2 Days in the Office
- Remote
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Management experience
Benefits
- Private Healthcare including dental and opticians services through Vitality
- Worldwide travel insurance through Vitality
- Anniversary Rewards (£250, £500, £750, 4-week fully paid sabbatical)
- Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme up to 7% match
- Octopus EV Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- 28 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
- Annual Learning and Wellbeing Budget
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Season Ticket Loan
- 6 free therapy sessions per year
- Dog Friendly Offices
- Free drinks and snacks in our offices
About the Company
- Capital on Tap started because small businesses were underserved. Big banks were slow, their products weren't fit for purpose, and small business owners often couldn't access what they needed. We set out to fix that.
- Today we're a financial platform - not just a credit card company. We offer a best-in-class business credit card, SME-focused spend management platform, a savings product that hit £1 billion in funds within its first year, and a growing suite of tools and financial products that make running a small business easier.
- 1,000+ employees, £20bn in annual card spend, 200,000+ customers, 17,000+ Trustpilot reviews averaging 4.7 stars, and we're profitable. We’ve done a pretty good job so far, but we’re just getting started!
- We’re redefining the developer experience and pushing the technical limits of what cloud infrastructure can achieve.
Equal Opportunity
- We welcome, consider and encourage applications from anyone who shares our commitment to inclusivity. Join us in creating a space where authenticity thrives, and everyone can do their best work.