Platform and Infrastructure Manager (12 Month FTC)
London, England, United Kingdom Full-time Posted 1 week ago
Are you the visionary engineering leader who can take our platforms from excellent to exceptional?
We are looking for a Platform and Infrastructure Manager who thrives at the intersection of strategy, technology and leadership. Someone who can set a bold direction for our cloud and on-premises platforms, elevate engineering performance, and ensure our systems are secure, scalable and future-ready.
If you are a forward-thinking technologist with a passion for automation, modernisation and high-performing teams, this is your opportunity to make a meaningful impact at the very core of our technology organisation.
Why This Role Matters
Our platforms are the backbone of the business. Their reliability, security and performance directly shape how we operate, innovate and grow. In this role, you will own that foundation end-to-end, ensuring it remains robust today and evolves for tomorrow.
You will lead a team of platform and network engineers, guide our technology roadmap, and drive the shift toward automation, DevOps excellence and enterprise-grade resilience. It is a rare opportunity to blend hands-on expertise with strategic influence and leave a lasting mark on the organisation.
What You’ll Be Doing
Technical Leadership and Delivery
Technical Expertise
Our Offering / benefits:
As well as a competitive salary, pension and performance related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from flexible working; market leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self to work.
Disability Disclaimer:
We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.
If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us directly.
The Crown Estate is a unique business with a distinct heritage and a portfolio unlike any other.
It includes some of central London’s best places to work, shop and spend time, retail and leisure destinations across the country, and a substantial rural portfolio. As manager of the seabed and half the foreshore around England, Wales and Northern Ireland, we play a role in the UK’s world-leading offshore wind sector as well as marine aggregates, cables and pipelines. We are also responsible for the Windsor Estate, including the world-renowned Windsor Great Park.
We are looking for a Platform and Infrastructure Manager who thrives at the intersection of strategy, technology and leadership. Someone who can set a bold direction for our cloud and on-premises platforms, elevate engineering performance, and ensure our systems are secure, scalable and future-ready.
If you are a forward-thinking technologist with a passion for automation, modernisation and high-performing teams, this is your opportunity to make a meaningful impact at the very core of our technology organisation.
Why This Role Matters
Our platforms are the backbone of the business. Their reliability, security and performance directly shape how we operate, innovate and grow. In this role, you will own that foundation end-to-end, ensuring it remains robust today and evolves for tomorrow.
You will lead a team of platform and network engineers, guide our technology roadmap, and drive the shift toward automation, DevOps excellence and enterprise-grade resilience. It is a rare opportunity to blend hands-on expertise with strategic influence and leave a lasting mark on the organisation.
What You’ll Be Doing
Technical Leadership and Delivery
- Lead, motivate and develop a high-performing team of platform and network engineers
- Own and maintain the technical lifecycle roadmap for all platforms
- Strengthen relationships with key third-party partners to maximise value and velocity
- Drive technology upgrades, platform enhancements and continuous improvement
- Align infrastructure and platform strategies with wider business objectives
- Design, implement and maintain secure, scalable and resilient solutions across cloud and on-premises environments
- Mature DevOps practices by embedding automation, IaC and codified engineering approaches
- Ensure network performance, security, compliance and operational excellence
- Oversee disaster recovery planning and maintain high availability systems
- Provide hands-on engineering input when needed, leading by example
- Troubleshoot complex issues and champion performance optimisation
- Build a collaborative, accountable and high-performance engineering culture
- Promote ownership, craftsmanship and quality of delivery
- Provide coaching, mentoring and career development for team members
- Conduct performance reviews and offer constructive, meaningful feedback
- Set clear expectations and celebrate high performance
- Play a key role in shaping career pathways and engineering development frameworks
Technical Expertise
- Deep experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices and network management
- Excellent proficiency in Azure, ARM, Bicep, Terraform and CI/CD (Azure DevOps)
- Proven experience deploying platforms at scale using IaC and automation
- Understanding of enterprise data platforms and modern data methodologies
- Exposure to AI technologies and how they support enterprise-level services
- Expertise across Azure and infrastructure-as-code tooling
- Great knowledge of Cisco networking and Fortinet firewall/VPN management
- Experience with disaster recovery and high-availability architectures
- Awareness of security and compliance across identity, platform and EUC
- Excellent troubleshooting and performance optimisation capability
- Experience working within Agile delivery environments
- Comfortable leading sprint ceremonies and contributing to iterative delivery
- Able to foster agility, adaptability and collaboration within the team
- Skilled in backlog and sprint management to ensure timely delivery
- Confident, decisive and supportive leader with experience managing engineering teams
- A problem-solver with the ability to break down complexity
- Excellent communicator, able to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Adaptable and curious, always learning and bringing innovation forward
- Detail-oriented with a commitment to engineering excellence and rigorous testing
Our Offering / benefits:
As well as a competitive salary, pension and performance related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from flexible working; market leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self to work.
Disability Disclaimer:
We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.
If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us directly.
The Crown Estate is a unique business with a distinct heritage and a portfolio unlike any other.
It includes some of central London’s best places to work, shop and spend time, retail and leisure destinations across the country, and a substantial rural portfolio. As manager of the seabed and half the foreshore around England, Wales and Northern Ireland, we play a role in the UK’s world-leading offshore wind sector as well as marine aggregates, cables and pipelines. We are also responsible for the Windsor Estate, including the world-renowned Windsor Great Park.
