Director, Platform Engineering
Primis · United Kingdom
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Engineers and AI agents use it to get what they need without raising a ticket.They're looking for a Director to lead one of the platform teams (Systems, Network, Identity, or Reliability & Performance). You'll be the team's technical authority and still hands on, while owning the people, the roadmap and the results.What you'll be doingLeading, hiring and developing a team of platform engineersSetting technical direction and owning your team's architecture and design decisionsTurning your area of the estate into self service, API driven capabilitiesWriting and reviewing code, IaC and designs every week, and going deep in incidentsOwning the roadmap, quarterly plans and delivery, measured by tickets eliminated and service levelsMaking AI assisted engineering the norm across your teamBuilding PCI DSS and SOX controls into the platform with automatic evidenceWhat you'll bringExperience leading production engineering teams, including hiring and performance managementHands on expertise in systems, network, reliability or identityStrong IaC (Terraform, Ansible) plus secrets management, service discovery, OIDC and observabilityPublic cloud experience (AWS and/or Azure, GCP or OCI)Experience running production services in regulated environments (PCI DSS, SOX)Daily use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) and an understanding of MCP and agentsBonus points for Vault, Consul, Entra ID, OpenTelemetry, vSphere, Palo Alto or HAProxyWhy it's worth a conversationReal ownership, without the red tape you'd get at a hyperscalerFully remote, with flexible hours45 days paid holiday£5,000 a year for certifications£500 home office setup budget and a £60 a month WFH allowancePrivate healthcare, a pension, generous annual leave, hackathons and team meetupsYou’ll need to be based in the UK or Ireland and already have the right to work there. Visa sponsorship isn’t available.Research indicates that men will apply to a role when they only meet 50-60% of the descriptions, however, when looking at women and other minority groups, they can look for up to a 99% match in order to apply to a role. If you feel you are a fit for our role, please still apply, don’t worry if you don’t tick every single box. We’d still love to hear from you. We encourage underrepresented talent to apply to all our roles & support accessibility needs