DevOps and Platform Engineering Manager

Oversees the reliability, scalability, and security of build-and-deploy pipelines and core platforms. Aligns infrastructure strategy with product roadmaps, driving automation, observability, and incident response excellence across the organisation’s technology estate.

Site Reliability Manager, Platform Lead, Infrastructure Engineering Manager

Architect platform roadmaps, enforce infrastructure standards, guide engineers on container orchestration, champion incident post-mortems, and report service-level metrics. Works with cloud consoles, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring suites, and on-call tooling.

Software-as-a-Service vendors | Cloud-native start-ups | Online gaming platforms | Banking technology divisions | Retail digital operations | Telecoms infrastructure providers

Starts by gaining mastery in system administration or cloud engineering, moves into senior DevOps roles owning critical services, then takes on leadership of a small reliability team. Demonstrating robust incident management and cost-efficient architecture supports promotion to managing larger platform groups.

Cloud adoption and automation are accelerating, keeping high-calibre platform leaders in demand. Paths include director of reliability engineering, cloud practice head, or strategic consultancy specialising in scalable infrastructure.

Kubernetes cluster design and maintenance | Infrastructure-as-code with version control | Service-level objective definition and tracking | Automated rollback and blue-green deployments | Cloud cost allocation and forecasting | Security hardening of build pipelines | High-availability database provisioning

Calm decision-making under production pressure | Cross-team collaboration to reduce silos | Budget awareness and optimisation | Coaching for incident response maturity | Influencing senior stakeholders on risk | Documentation that accelerates onboarding