Platform Engineering Manager
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£54,700
(£28.05 per hour)
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Description
About Waystone
Waystone is a leading asset-servicing solutions provider of institutional governance, administration, risk and compliance services to financial institutions. With over 25 years’ experience and a comprehensive range of specialist services to its name, Waystone helps our clients structure, operate and grow through our expertise, innovation and digitisation, backed by the operational scale to support global expansion.
Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced, hands-on, proactive Platform Engineering Manager to lead our Platform Engineering team. Sitting within the wider IT Platforms department, the role manages a team of 9 engineers based in the UK, Ireland and Mumbai and is accountable for the day-to-day running and improvement of our IT platforms across Azure, AWS, OCI and on-premises infrastructure supporting 25 offices globally. Waystone is a regulated financial services business, so the role needs someone who can move at pace but with the care needed to meet our regulatory obligations. We’re looking for a manager who is automation-first, lives and breathes innovation, and has used AI tooling to make operations faster and more reliable.
Key Responsibilities
Waystone is a leading asset-servicing solutions provider of institutional governance, administration, risk and compliance services to financial institutions. With over 25 years’ experience and a comprehensive range of specialist services to its name, Waystone helps our clients structure, operate and grow through our expertise, innovation and digitisation, backed by the operational scale to support global expansion.
Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced, hands-on, proactive Platform Engineering Manager to lead our Platform Engineering team. Sitting within the wider IT Platforms department, the role manages a team of 9 engineers based in the UK, Ireland and Mumbai and is accountable for the day-to-day running and improvement of our IT platforms across Azure, AWS, OCI and on-premises infrastructure supporting 25 offices globally. Waystone is a regulated financial services business, so the role needs someone who can move at pace but with the care needed to meet our regulatory obligations. We’re looking for a manager who is automation-first, lives and breathes innovation, and has used AI tooling to make operations faster and more reliable.
Key Responsibilities
- Team Leadership: Lead and develop a team of 9 platform engineers across the UK, Ireland and Mumbai. Run one-to-ones, set objectives, manage performance and grow the team’s capability.
- On-Call & Coverage: Own the team’s on-call rota to provide reliable 24x7 support across regions.
- Cloud & Platform Engineering: Run and improve our multi-cloud estate (Azure, AWS, OCI) and the on-premises infrastructure that supports our 25 office locations.
- Automation First: Make Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), configuration management (Ansible) and CI/CD the default way the team delivers change.
- AI for Operations: Use AI tooling to speed up day-to-day work – scripting, IaC generation, incident triage, runbook automation and knowledge management.
- Proven experience leading a platform or cloud engineering team, ideally one that is geographically distributed.
- Strong hands-on background with Azure and AWS in production.
- Solid DevOps experience: Terraform, Ansible, Git, CI/CD pipelines.
- Practical experience using AI tooling to improve operational work.
- Good experience across the operational lifecycle: backups and restore testing, DR and resilience testing, monitoring and alerting, incident and problem management, and on-call.
- Experience working in a regulated environment, preferably financial services, with mature change, audit and risk processes.
- Cloud certifications in Azure, AWS or OCI.
- Experience managing teams across multiple time zones.
- Background running platform engineering practices such as golden paths, paved roads and self-service tooling.
This is a chance to lead a global platform team in a fast-moving, regulated business and to shape how we use automation and AI to run our infrastructure. If you enjoy building strong teams, raising the engineering bar and turning ideas into improvements that customers feel, we would like to hear from you.