Engineering Manager, Platform (Enablement) (AWS/Kubernetes)

Location: London; hybrid working policy, typically 2–3 days in the office

Salary: £110,000–£135,000 GBP per year

Company

hirify.global is developing a network of connected organisations that share security maturity information to defend against cybersecurity attacks and manage supply-chain risk.

What you will do

• Lead Enablement, the platform group responsible for infrastructure, delivery pipelines, reliability practices, and developer tooling.
• Set platform, DevOps, and SRE strategy and roadmap, prioritising technical investment against feature demand.
• Improve CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, developer experience, scalability, security, cost efficiency, and resilience in AWS.
• Own SLOs, error budgets, observability, incident response, on-call practices, and blameless post-incident reviews.
• Partner with Product and Expansion to communicate platform capacity, constraints, and risk and define team boundaries.
• Coach and develop engineers, lead hiring and retention, and guide complex migrations and organisational change.

Requirements

• Hands-on platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE experience, including running production systems at scale.
• Strong production experience with AWS and Kubernetes/Docker.
• Infrastructure-as-code experience, such as Terraform or CloudFormation, and modern CI/CD practice.
• Experience owning reliability, including incident management, SLOs, observability, performance, and capacity planning.
• Security-minded design and working knowledge of cloud security and compliance.
• Solid grounding in relational databases, including Postgres/SQL, and asynchronous messaging.
• Enough familiarity with Go and the wider stack to engage credibly in design reviews; the core stack includes Go, AWS, and Vue.js.
• Experience managing engineers or teams, ideally platform or infrastructure teams.
• Clear communication with senior and non-technical stakeholders about capacity, constraints, and risk, plus motivation to support the growth and success of people.

Nice to have

• Experience treating a platform as an internal product with measurable developer-experience outcomes.
• Familiarity with Team Topologies and DORA metrics.
• Experience working with Product on prioritisation across platform and feature work.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working, typically 2–3 days in the office.
• Generous EMI equity package, private pension, and private healthcare with enhanced mental wellbeing coverage.
• 28 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, an additional 30 days of unpaid leave per year, and companywide festive-period time off.
• Enhanced gender-neutral family leave with 12 weeks paid leave, five days of Caretaker's leave, and enhanced occupational sick pay.
• £500 work-from-home budget, learning resources and books, and regular company socials.