Team Lead Platform Engineering

The role

You will lead a Cloud Platform engineering team to evolve infrastructure and redefine the developer experience. You will drive team performance, mentor engineers, and implement platform engineering best practices.

What you will do

• Champion a culture of continuous improvement through mentorship and feedback
• Drive team performance by resolving bottlenecks and fostering accountability
• Drive the adoption of AI within the team
• Foster open, transparent communication across remote, hybrid, and in-person environments
• Stay hands on in Cloud and Platform engineering
• Define and enforce platform engineering best practices
• Partner with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and QA to align strategy
• Contribute to product decisions regarding speed, quality and scalability
• Proactively identify and mitigate risk
• Embed DevSecOps principles including security, monitoring, compliance, and automation

Required qualifications

• Confident, decisive and supportive leader with experience managing Cloud / Platform engineering teams
• Natural ability to lead cross functional teams
• 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
• Expertise across Azure, Cloud technologies and the suite of tools commonly used in Cloud / Platform Engineering
• Proven experience working & scaling the platform to support a fast paced containerised environment

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

Before you apply

• Stage 1: 30 minute intro call with a Talent Partner
• Stage 2: 60 minute technical interview with the Engineering Manager & People Partner
• Stage 3: 60 minute live technical challenge with the Platform team
• Stage 4: 60 minute case study with Product, the Engineering Manager & Head of Platform Operations

About the company

Capital on Tap is a financial platform that offers a business credit card, SME-focused spend management platform, and a savings product. They have over 1,000 employees and 200,000+ customers.