Head of Cloud Platform Engineering

Head of Cloud Platform Engineering | AWS | Fully Remote

I’m currently working on an exciting opportunity for a hands-on Head of Cloud Platform Engineering to take ownership of a critical AWS cloud estate supporting technology at national scale.

This is a role for someone who enjoys being both the technical leader and the engineer.

You’ll have the opportunity to shape cloud architecture, lead a high-calibre platform team and influence the wider engineering strategy — while still getting hands-on with the technology.

The Role

You’ll take ownership of:

• AWS cloud architecture and platform engineering

• Cloud-native infrastructure and open-source technologies

• Kubernetes & Infrastructure as Code

• Terraform and CI/CD

• Cloud security, IAM and compliance

• FinOps and cloud cost optimisation

• High availability, resilience & disaster recovery

• Observability, incident management & SRE practices

• Technical standards and engineering guardrails

• Building and developing a small platform engineering team

The environment supports critical energy and smart-metering infrastructure, so reliability, security, scalability and operational excellence are fundamental to the role.

What I'm Looking For

I'm particularly interested in speaking with people who have:

• Deep, hands-on AWS experience

• Strong cloud/platform engineering experience

• Excellent Terraform / IaC skills

• Kubernetes experience

• Strong CI/CD knowledge

• Experience designing highly available, production-scale platforms

• Cloud security & IAM experience

• FinOps / cloud cost optimisation experience

• Experience with incident management and SRE practices

• Previous technical leadership or team management experience

Energy/utilities experience would be highly advantageous, particularly experience within a regulated or critical-infrastructure environment.

The Key Thing

This isn't a role for someone who has moved completely away from engineering.

I'm looking for someone who can comfortably move between:

Strategic leadership → Architecture → Team leadership → Keyboard time

Someone who can speak to senior stakeholders about the future of the platform in the morning and then get hands-on with AWS, Terraform or Kubernetes when required.

Location: Fully Remote | UK

Salary : Competitive salary, dependent on experience

If you're a Head of Cloud, Head of Platform, Cloud Engineering Manager, Principal/Staff Engineer or senior AWS engineer ready to step into a Head-of-level position , I'd be keen to have a confidential conversation.

Drop me a message or connect with me and I'll share the full details.