Platform Engineering Manager

Place of Work:  

Remote. Occasional travel within the UK 

About the role: 

As a Platform Engineering Manager at Civica, you will be responsible for leading a team of engineers that design, build and maintain Civica’s cloud-based platforms. You will ensure that the team has the people, processes and tools to excel at delivering services for our customers. You’ll be involved in the technical detail, helping the team to find solutions to technical problems. You’ll co-ordinate activities with stakeholders and other teams, proactively remove blockers, and help plan work, making sure that the team delivers impact for the citizens that we serve. If you enjoy challenging, multi-faceted roles that allow you to excel in technical contribution as well as people and project management, this role would be a good fit. 

What you will be doing: 

• Working with the team to deliver systems that are performant, reliable, secure, and scalable 
• Facilitating fast and effective communication within your team and with other teams 
• Thinking strategically, proposing team roadmaps that feed into larger organisational roadmaps 
• Delivering high-quality, high-impact results 
• Growing individuals and improving team performance 
• Establishing psychological safety and trust within your team and with other teams 
• Building relationships with colleagues across Civica

We’d like you to have experience with: 

• Managing one or more platform teams in a fast-paced environment 
• Working with stakeholders to set and manage priorities 
• Agile methodologies 
• DevOps concepts and practices 
• Designing, building and maintaining cloud platforms 

It would also be great if you have experience with: 

• Implementing an internal developer platform 
• Software development or managing software development teams 

Some technologies that we use: 

• AWS & Azure platforms 
• Terraform 
• Ansible 
• Datadog 
• Github 
• Azure DevOps  

You should apply if you: 

• Are knowledgeable and experienced yet flexible; we value strong opinions, loosely held 
• Are comfortable with ambiguity 
• Enjoy mentoring colleagues 
• Are able to both collaborate closely, and work independently 
• Can communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues, including senior management 

Last updated on Jul 8, 2024