Platform Engineering Manager

Location: Glasgow or Edinburgh - Hybrid 2 days onsite 3 from home

We're looking for a skilled Platform Engineering Manager to lead a growing Azure-focused engineering team. This is a chance to take ownership of a early stage evolving function and shape how modern infrastructure and automation are delivered across the organisation.

About the Role

You'll lead a team of Platform Engineers responsible for developing and improving the Infrastructure‑as‑Code estate using technologies such as Terraform and Ansible. The team plays a central role in designing, maintaining, and enhancing platform templates and automation used to deploy and operate customer environments.

As the team's first dedicated manager, you'll bring structure, support, and direction. Your focus will be developing people, improving engineering standards, and ensuring the backlog of work is delivered efficiently while balancing incoming requests and occasional support escalations. Collaboration with Software Engineering, Product, and Cloud Operations is a key part of the role.

What You'll Do

• Guide, mentor, and develop a team of Platform Engineers, creating a supportive and high‑performance environment.
• Oversee delivery of platform enhancements, new templates, automation improvements, and operational tooling.
• Work closely with technical and non‑technical teams to prioritise backlog items and manage competing demands.
• Provide technical leadership around Azure, Terraform, Ansible, scripting, and automation best practice.
• Support the team during 2nd/3rd‑line escalations and help drive long‑term fixes through documentation and improved processes.

What You Bring

• Strong experience with Microsoft Azure and core cloud infrastructure concepts.
• Solid background in Terraform, Ansible, scripting (PowerShell or Bash), and CI/CD tooling.
• Experience managing or leading technical teams and delivering work through Agile practices.
• A collaborative mindset with the ability to support engineers, manage expectations, and build strong cross‑team relationships.
• Comfortable balancing delivery, people leadership, and occasional hands‑on technical contribution.

You'll Thrive Here If You Are

Someone who enjoys solving problems, improving automation, and helping engineers grow. You'll be at your best if you're calm under pressure, confident making technical decisions, and driven to create consistent, repeatable, well‑documented infrastructure.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.