Developer Platforms Specialist

£65,000 - 65,000 per year

• We are looking for a Developer Platforms Specialist with experience owning and evolving developer platforms at enterprise scale.
• We need strong experience with platform strategy, governance, standards, and policy setting.
• We require a solid understanding of security, compliance, and enterprise architecture alignment.
• We are looking for experience managing developer tooling such as Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Power Platform.
• We need experience defining platform lifecycles, including onboarding, upgrades, and retirement.
• We value experience with provisioning, automation, self service enablement, and standardised tooling patterns.
• We are looking for someone comfortable tracking platform health, usage, compliance, and service resilience.
• We need proven capability in adoption, change management, documentation, and technical leadership.
• We are seeking someone who can drive outcomes, influence standards, and support engineering teams at scale.
• Microsoft ecosystem experience or alignment is highly desirable.

• We own the end-to-end developer platform landscape, from strategy through execution and continuous improvement.
• We set governance, standards, and policies for our developer platforms.
• We ensure our platforms remain secure, compliant, and aligned with enterprise architecture.
• We make decisions on platform usage, integrations, and tooling.
• We manage our developer tooling portfolio, including Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Power Platform.
• We define and manage platform lifecycles, including onboarding, upgrades, and retirement.
• We shape platform roadmaps to align with business priorities and the Microsoft ecosystem direction.
• We enable self service environments, repositories, and pipelines.
• We embed security and compliance guardrails into our platform processes.
• We standardise tooling patterns to improve consistency and scalability.
• We monitor platform health, usage, and compliance, and use insights to guide optimisation and investment.
• We define our support model, resilience approach, and service management practices.
• We lead platform adoption and change management across the organisation.
• We provide guidance, documentation, and technical leadership to engineering teams.
• We support engineering teams and innovation initiatives.

• Azure
• DevOps
• GitHub
• Support
• Security
• Cloud

We are offering a Developer Platforms Specialist role with end-to-end ownership of the platforms that underpin software delivery across our global organisation. This is a platform ownership role, not a traditional support role, and we are looking for someone who can shape, govern, and evolve our developer ecosystem to keep it secure, scalable, modern, and effective. The salary is c£60,000 to £65,000 plus benefits.