Platform Engineering Manager (Cloud Foundations)

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.

The Role

Platform Engineering Manager (Cloud Foundations) Location: London / Hybrid (2 days per week in office)

Reporting to:

Head of Technology Operations The Role

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 FinOps. The successful candidate brings deep operational experience in product‑led technology companies and understands how to run cloud foundations as a modern internal platform.

Key Outcomes for This Role

Strategy, Delivery and Execution

Through working with your team, key stakeholders, and the platform product

manager, we

provide a

cloud

platform strategy and roadmap

that aligns to Rightmove business goals and our internal

customer’s

needs.

The

team

provides

accurate

estimates and realistic plans.

The

platform roadmap, initiatives/projects, and OKRs are

well managed

and delivered

in line with expectations.

People Leadership & Team Development

Through coaching and mentoring engineers, setting clear, achievable development goals and provides actionable feedback, they improve skills, confidence, and impact.

Individual growth plans align with team

objectives

and organisational priorities.

Engineers are supported

to

designing and delivering scalable, secure, resilient platform services without micromanagement.

Achievements are

recognised

and rewarded, performance issues are addressed early and fairly.

There is an inclusive, psychologically safe

environment;

with leadership tailored to individual strengths and motivations.

Platform Engineering , Operations

&

Reliability

Cloud

platform and key

services are

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.

Backup,

restore

and resilience mechanisms are regularly tested, ensuring the platform can recover predictably.

Incident management processes are consistently followed, including

timely

post‑incident reviews (PIRs) and completion of follow‑up actions.

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.

Finops

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.

Governance, Guardrails & Security

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.

What

you’ll

bring

Proven experience in cloud operations and platform engineering

management, overseeing cloud infrastructure

and platforms, monitoring,

reliability, and service delivery in production environments.

Previous

hands‑on experience running large cloud-based website environments

with GKE, service mesh, load balancers, CDN/WAF, Kafka, Elasticsearch.

Strong understanding of cloud

services

including networking,

compute, storage,

containerisation,

security

and