Platform Engineering Manager; Cloud Foundations

Platform Engineering Manager (Cloud Foundations)

London, UK

Our vision is to give everyone the belief they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler, by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust, and belief to make it happen.

We’re home to the UK’s largest choice of properties and are the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what’s on the market.

Rightmove’s Cloud Foundations team delivers the secure, reliable, scalable and cost‑optimised platform foundations used by hundreds of engineers and dozens of mission‑critical services. As we ensure safe, low friction delivery of core services and operate at scale, the Engineering Manager will lead a team providing cloud platforms and infrastructure, cloud security, governance, automation, and operational excellence.

This position blends people leadership, cloud operations, platform engineering, security governance, and Fin Ops. The successful candidate brings deep operational experience in product‑led technology companies and understands how to run cloud foundations as a modern internal platform.

• Backup, restore and resilience mechanisms are regularly tested, ensuring the platform can recover predictably.
• The platform is reliable, incident detection and resolution are smooth due to proactive monitoring, well‑maintained alerts/logs, and complete observability coverage.
• Platform resilience and DR planning/testing strategy is defined and operational, working across the business with validated requirements and outcomes.
• Incident management processes are consistently followed, including timely post‑incident reviews (PIRs) and completion of follow‑up actions.
• Repeat incidents are rare due to effective root‑cause analysis and remediation.
• On‑call is well staffed, sustainably operated, and fosters a healthy on‑call culture.
• Automation (AI‑driven or traditional) delivers increased speed, reduced toil, and enhanced reliability.
• Support requests are triaged and responded to promptly, with prioritisation based on upstream impact.
• Capacity and cloud spend are effectively managed—no incidents caused by under‑provisioning, and costs are controlled by avoiding unnecessary over‑provisioning.
• Fin Ops culture is embedded with tooling and process across product development teams.
• Vendor relationships are managed, supplier due diligence is completed on time, contract costs and SLAs are negotiated as needed.
• Continuous improvement culture is embedded: teams regularly evaluate performance, reliability and cost efficiency, feeding learnings back into the platform.

• Infrastructure‑as‑Code, Policy‑as‑Code and automated guardrails accelerate delivery while strengthening governance and consistency across the platform.
• Secure software delivery practices and policies are followed, vulnerabilities are managed within SLAs, Platform configuration standards are maintained (CIS Benchmarks).
• Cloud security policies, governance standards and privacy controls consistent with predefined roles, least‑privilege IAM patterns and role‑based access practices are implemented and followed.
• The organisation meets regulatory, contractual and audit obligations, maintaining documentation, policies and process evidence for compliance reviews.
• Secure cloud configurations, WAF policies, bot protection, and cloud‑native security tooling are maintained.
• Architecture diagrams for network and key components are maintained for audit, security, knowledge sharing purposes.

• Ensure the team is providing accurate estimates and realistic plans.
• Manage platform roadmap, initiatives/projects, and OKR delivery in line with expectations.
• Align cloud platform strategy and delivery plans with business goals, partnering with technical product manager, DX, DBA, security, SRE, and data teams.
• Coach and mentor engineers to improve skills, confidence, and impact.
• Sets clear, achievable development goals and provides actionable feedback.
• Aligns individual growth plans…