Director - Platform Engineering

Director, Platform Engineering UK Remote | Permanent | Leadership Opportunity Candidates must have permanent eligibility to work in the UK. Are you passionate about building world-class platforms that enable engineering teams to move faster, innovate confidently, and deliver at scale? We are looking for a Director of Platform Engineering to lead the evolution of a modern platform engineering function. This is a strategic leadership role where you will shape the vision, roadmap, and operating model for a platform organisation responsible for cloud infrastructure, automation, reliability, identity, networking, and developer enablement. This is an opportunity to influence how engineering is delivered across a growing technology business, driving platform adoption, operational excellence, and the use of emerging technologies including AI-assisted engineering. The role - Define and execute the platform engineering strategy and long-term roadmap. - Lead and develop high-performing engineering teams across infrastructure, network, reliability, identity, and platform services. - Drive automation-first principles through Infrastructure as Code, self-service platforms, and engineering enablement. - Champion reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence across critical platforms. - Partner with technology and business leadership to align platform investment with organisational objectives. - Enhance developer productivity through modern platform tooling and engineering practices. - Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies, including AI-driven engineering capabilities and automation. - Build a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and accountability. Your profile We are interested in technology leaders who combine strategic vision with strong technical credibility. - Proven experience leading and developing production engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, and technical leadership. - Deep expertise in at least one Platform Engineering domain (Infrastructure, Network, Reliability/SRE, or Identity), with hands-on experience writing and reviewing code and Infrastructure as Code. - Strong knowledge of modern platform technologies including Terraform, Ansible, secrets management, service discovery, OIDC, observability, and public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP or OCI). - Demonstrated success delivering platform and infrastructure initiatives, managing budgets, vendors, and measurable improvements in service reliability, automation, and developer enablement. - Experience operating production services within regulated environments such as PCI DSS and SOX, including incident management, on-call ownership, and audit-ready controls. - Practical experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code, Codex or Cursor to accelerate software development, automation, infrastructure management, and operational investigations. - Understanding of MCP, agent-based tooling, AI governance, model selection, context management, verification, and secure AI adoption in engineering environments. - Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders through documentation, architecture reviews, incident reports, and strategic updates. Desirable Experience - Experience with HashiCorp Vault, including dynamic secrets for databases, PKI and cloud. - Experience with HashiCorp Consul for service discovery. - Experience with Active Directory and Entra ID. - Experience with OpenTelemetry. - Experience with VMware vSphere, Palo Alto or HAProxy Enterprise at scale Additional information - On the escalation rota for incidents in your platforms, with occasional out-of-hours work for planned changes and major incidents. - Fully remote, working with teams and stakeholders across locations and time zones. What is on Offer - Fully remote working within the UK. - Opportunity to shape the future direction of a growing technology organisation. - High-impact leadership role with significant influence across technology strategy. - Collaborative and forward-thinking engineering culture. - Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. If you are excited by the challenge of building modern engineering platforms and leading teams through the next generation of cloud, automation, and AI-enabled engineering, please get in touch. Apply today or contact us for a confidential discussion. Candidates must have permanent eligibility to work in the UK.