Offer summary

Qualifications:

Extensive experience in platform engineering leadership roles, ideally at the Head of or Director level., Strong experience in cloud platforms, containerisation, and orchestration technologies., Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures, DevOps principles, and SRE practices., Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills..

Key responsibilities:

Providing strategic leadership and direction to the Engineering Platform group.

Building and growing a high-performing team of teams within the Engineering Platform group.

Collaborating with leadership, product and tech teams to define platform strategy and roadmap.

Mentoring, coaching, and growing engineers and engineering managers within the Engineering Platform group.

Job description

About Numan

Founded in 2018, we’ve already grown to be a 200+ team distributed across the globe united by a singular mission: empowering people to take control of their health.

Numan is transforming health: we’ve built a cutting-edge platform that integrates diagnostics, medication, supplements, digital programmes, and doctor consultations. Giving people the tools they need to maximise life.

To deliver on our transformative mission, we are guided by our 5 company values:

• Patients first.

• Learn Fast.

• Own the quality.

• Succeed together.

• Care deeply.

Backed by top-tier investors, Numan is already having a positive impact on hundreds of thousands of patients here in the UK, and we want you to help us deliver this mission!

The role

We are looking for an experienced and passionate Engineering Leader to head our Engineering Platform group. In this pivotal role, you will leverage your technical expertise and experience to lead your team into building, supporting, and advancing a highly scalable, dependable, secure, and affordable infrastructure that is easily accessible to our engineers. You will also be responsible for cultivating an exceptional developer experience throughout Numan's product and technology organisation, promoting software delivery performance, autonomy, and reliability.

You’ll be:

Providing strategic leadership and direction to the Engineering Platform group, currently consisting of two teams: Platform Engineering team and DevEx & QA team.

Building and growing a high-performing team of teams within the Engineering Platform group.

Leading and helping your teams to design, implement, and manage infrastructure, automation platforms and DevEx improvements.

Ensuring the highest levels of availability, performance, security, and resilience for all platform services.

Collaborating with leadership, product and tech teams and other departments to define platform strategy and roadmap using a value-driven approach and engineering metrics.

Developing and applying industry best practices for infrastructure architecture, security, operational management and developer experience.

Driving a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and operational excellence.

Mentoring, coaching and growing engineers and engineering managers within the Engineering Platform group and the Engineering function.

We’re looking for someone who has:

Extensive experience in platform engineering leadership roles, ideally at the Head of or Director level.

Strong experience in cloud platforms, containerisation and orchestration technologies, infrastructure as code tools and CI/CD pipelines.

Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures, DevOps principles, and SRE practices.

Proven track record of successfully managing large-scale infrastructure projects.

Strong strategic planning and decision-making skills.

Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.

A passion for building and leading high-performing engineering teams.

It’s a bonus if you have:

Led a DevOps transformation within a tech organisation.

Hands-on experience with DevEx initiatives and automation.

Hands-on experience on any of the technologies we currently use: GCP, Terraform, K8s, Grafana, Circle CI, Cypress, Python/Django, Ruby/Rails, TypeScript/React, Postgress.

Our benefits include...

📈 - Share options.

🏖 - 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays (increasing to 30 the longer you stay with Numan).

🩺 - Health insurance with Vitality.

🧸 - Enhanced maternity and parental leave.

🐥 - Nursery benefit provided by YellowNest.

💼 - Employee assistance programme (access to therapy, financial planning and discounts).

⚖️ - Generous pension (includes both employee and employer contributions).

💻 - Flexible working options, including a dog friendly office in Farringdon.

📚 - Personal training and development budget via Learnerbly.

👟 - Wellhub membership, giving you access to over 2,000 locations in the UK.

☕️ - Free office snacks including breakfast items, soft drinks, tea and coffee.

🚲 - Cycle to work scheme.

🚆 - Season ticket loan.

% - Discount to Numan products for your friends and family.

🤲 - Paid volunteering days.

📅 - An additional 2 weeks off once you reach your 5th anniversary with Numan.

Diversity at Numan

At Numan, people are at the heart of who we are. We recognise and value the unique perspectives and experiences that individuals from all backgrounds bring.

We promote innovation and creativity, enabling us to tackle things from various viewpoints and are committed to equal opportunities and continuously strive to create a workplace where everyone feels respected, heard, and valued.

Embracing diversity isn't just our goal; it's our strength, driving us towards a more inclusive future.

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