Platform Engineering Manager

Platform Engineering Manager

Kubernetes, Multi-Tenancy & Developer Platform Lead

London | Hybrid

Up to £115 + £25K Bonus, Pension, Health, 30 Days Holiday

This role requires a hybrid leader who can run a team of engineers and hold their own on Kubernetes architecture with the sharpest technical stakeholders and Leadership of a platform engineering team (c. 20 engineers), coaching and raising standards

Kubernetes platform architecture, developer enablement, engineering leadership and platform governance & deep on multi-tenancy design.

✔️Kubernetes platform design and operating model

✔️Multi-tenancy strategy: namespace, cluster and virtual-cluster trade-offs

✔️Guardrails across RBAC, admission control, network policy & policy-as-code

✔️Self-service capabilities golden paths & improve dev experience

✔️Platform roadmap, adoption, lifecycle, upgrades, observability, compliance.

Must Have

✔️Real production Kubernetes platform engineering, ideally multi-tenant at scale

✔️Fluency in control plane vs data plane isolation, API server tenancy, RBAC and admission control

✔️Policy-as-code (Kyverno / OPA Gatekeeper) and network policy (Cilium or equivalent)

✔️GitOps and IaC (ArgoCD / Flux, Terraform / Terragrunt)

✔️A track record of leading engineers, setting standards and driving platform adoption

✔️Strong stakeholder management across engineering, security and architecture

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Nice to have

AWS EKS or OpenShift ownership · Internal Developer Platform / Backstage / Port.io · financial services or other regulated enterprise background · pair programming / XP / engineering-culture uplift.