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We are seeking a highly skilled individual to lead large-scale agile Platform and Cloud engineering teams supporting key Vodafone markets such as the UK, Germany, Spain and Italy. This role involves setting the technical direction, managing complex engineering delivery, and guiding a sizeable team while driving excellence in infrastructure automation, cloud solutions and engineering standards.
Job Responsibility:
Lead technical delivery across a large agile engineering organisation, ensuring high-quality standards, guidelines and tools are defined and adopted
Act as the primary technical lead supporting multiple delivery squads and digital application teams
Support, coach and empower 30+ Platform/Cloud engineers through continuous feedback, talent development and structured performance reviews
Own the engineering development roadmap, driving growth, capability uplift and career progression for team members
Oversee hiring, onboarding and retention of diverse engineering talent in collaboration with the recruitment team
Ensure visibility, coordination and alignment across all engineering initiatives, roadmaps and deliveries
Champion CI/CD implementation and automated infrastructure provisioning to enable fast, secure and scalable deployments
Requirements:
10+ years of hands-on experience in Platform and Cloud engineering, including leadership of technical squads
deep expertise in automated infrastructure, cloud platform design and Infrastructure as Code
strong people leadership skills, including mentorship, coaching and performance development
innovative, adaptable and comfortable driving engineering excellence in a dynamic environment
strong knowledge of Terraform, Terragrunt, Zero Trust security, observability tooling, GIT and static code analysis
capable of leading post-incident reviews and long-term remediation actions with a solution-focused approach
What we offer:
Opportunity to lead strategic engineering initiatives across major Vodafone markets
A collaborative environment that values innovation, autonomy and engineering best practices
Exposure to cutting-edge cloud technologies and modern automation frameworks
A culture that supports continuous learning, growth and career acceleration
The ability to influence engineering standards, architecture decisions and delivery models at scale