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About the Role
Lead F1’s Cloud and Platform Engineering as the accountable technical owner, reporting into the Head of Cloud & DevOps.
Responsibilities
- Shape cloud and platform strategy and translate it into roadmaps and measurable objectives aligned with the race calendar.
- Manage Cloud and Platform Engineering teams, including objectives, standards, recruitment, development, and succession planning.
- Allocate work, plan capacity and skills, and coach technical leads and engineers.
- Serve as the accountable technical owner for the cloud estate, Kubernetes, and shared platforms, operating them as internal products.
- Own platform architecture and engineering standards, review designs, and document decisions through governance.
- Be accountable for platform availability, race-event rotas, SLOs, and tested backup and disaster recovery.
- Lead technical coordination for major incidents, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
- Oversee the remediation of cloud and platform security findings in collaboration with Information Security.
- Manage cloud and platform budgets, forecasts, and supplier relationships with Finance and Procurement.
- Partner with Solutions, DevOps, AI/ML, Software, Networks, and Media teams, maintaining sufficient hands-on capability to guide complex engineering efforts.
Requirements
- Clear, credible communication with engineers, stakeholders, and senior leaders.
- Collaborative leadership with sound judgment and calm prioritization during incidents.
- Accountability for delivery, proactive risk escalation, and commitment to developing others.
- Organized, adaptable, and focused on continuous improvement.
- Ability to translate strategy into engineering plans, investment cases, and outcomes.
- Proficiency in AWS networking, identity, security governance, and cost management.
- Expertise in Kubernetes architecture, lifecycle, security, and capacity.
- Experience with Terraform, Git, GitOps, Helm, containers, and CI/CD integration.
- Knowledge of observability, SLOs, recovery objectives, and failure testing.
- Experience leading and line-managing cloud, infrastructure, or platform teams.
- Hands-on design and operation experience with enterprise AWS and Kubernetes.
- Proven ability to deliver complex cross-functional initiatives from strategy to roadmap.
- Strong experience with IaC and GitOps (Terraform, secure multi-account foundations).
- Experience owning production reliability, major incidents, DR, and cloud budgets.
- Experience with live-event, broadcast, media, or motorsport operations is desirable.
- Experience with Platform-as-a-product and self-service engineering is desirable.
- Experience with AWS Control Tower, AFT, and large-scale cloud modernization is desirable.
Skills
- AWS networking
- AWS identity
- AWS security governance
- AWS cost management
- Kubernetes architecture
- Kubernetes lifecycle
- Kubernetes security
- Kubernetes capacity
- Terraform
- Git
- GitOps
- Helm
- Containers
- CI/CD integration
- Observability
- SLOs
- Recovery objectives
- Failure testing
- IaC
- Platform-as-a-product
- Self-service engineering
- AWS Control Tower
- AFT
Location
- Biggin Hill
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Degree or HND/C in an IT-related subject (or relevant experience)
- AWS Solutions Architect certification
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Benefits
- Private Healthcare scheme
- Dental Care
- 4 x Grand Prix Paddock passes per season
- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave and other family planning policies
- A free staff shuttle service running to and from surrounding trains stations near to Biggin Hill
- Free healthy snacks in our offices
- Subsidised canteen in Biggin Hill, serving breakfast and lunch
- 25 days annual leave and 8 Bank Holiday days, plus a Christmas period closure
- Opportunities to develop and request training for your role via our in-house Learning and Development team
- Discount on F1 merchandise
- Discount at F1’s experiences including F1 Arcade and F1 Drive
- Perkbox benefit portal
About the Company
- At Formula 1, we are passionate about delivering the world’s greatest sports and entertainment spectacle leaving a positive legacy wherever we race.
- Innovation has always been at the heart of what we do ever since our first Grand Prix in 1950.
- Now, more than 75 years on, the sport remains a pioneer, developing technologies that have made a significant impact on society beyond the track.
- Everything you see on screen or at an event comes via our passionate and dedicated people.
- Whether its engineering, broadcast, legal, logistics, security, event management, commercial, media rights, marketing, or communications there is always a talented team working to maximise the potential of the sport.
- Joining F1 means becoming part of a team that values innovation, collaboration and personal growth.
- We offer a dynamic work environment where ideas are heard, and employee contributions truly make an impact.
- We seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people to play their role in accelerating the future of the sport.
Equal Opportunity
- We only communicate with candidates through official @f1.com email addresses. We will never contact you via personal email accounts, messaging apps, or request payment as part of our recruitment process. If you receive suspicious communication claiming to be from our talent team, please report it to recruitment@f1.com.