Platform and Infrastructure Manager

🕒 May 23

🏢🏡 London – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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The Crown Estate

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501 - 1000 employees

The Crown Estate is a significant national landowner with a diverse £16bn portfolio that includes urban centres and development opportunities; one of the largest rural holdings in the country; Regent Street and St James’s in London’s West End; and Windsor Great Park. We also manage the seabed and much of the coastline around England, Wales and Northern Ireland, playing a major role in the UK’s world leading offshore wind sector.

📋 Description

• 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

🎯 Requirements

• 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 • 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• 28 days paid holiday • Flexible working • Market leading family policies • Private healthcare • Life and critical illness cover