Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager: Cloud Platform | £600–£650/day | Contract (Inside IR35) We're looking for a technically grounded Engineering Manager to take ownership of a platform engineering team within a high-profile government organisation. This is a hands-on leadership role, you'll guide the build of a production-grade cloud landing zone while shaping engineering standards across a wider programme. The team sits within the Cloud Centre of Excellence and has its roots in DevOps, so CI/CD, automation, and infrastructure delivery are all part of the mix.

You'll be stepping into a principal engineering capacity as much as a people management one. WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING Leading a team of three senior platform engineers, with three junior roles currently in hire Driving the design and delivery of a multi-cloud landing zone across AWS and Azure Setting technical direction, architecture patterns, IaC standards, container orchestration, automation approaches Acting as principal technical voice within the Cloud Centre of Excellence, providing guidance across the broader engineering community Supporting other delivery teams in building and managing their own cloud infrastructure Managing civil servant stakeholders across multiple concurrent workstreams Mentoring engineers at all levels, shaping career development and building long-term team capability Owning security and compliance standards across platform build and deployment pipelines WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR Demonstrable experience designing and delivering cloud landing zones at scale (AWS and/or Azure) Strong grounding in Terraform, Bash, Ansible, and GitHub Actions Background in platform or DevOps engineering, you understand the pipelines, not just the theory Comfortable operating in a government or regulated environment, you know how to navigate complexity and stakeholder politics without losing pace A leader who earns technical credibility by doing, not just directing Strong communicator at all levels, from junior engineers to senior civil servants Please apply now as this one will move quickly!!