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,scalableand cost‑optimisedplatform foundations used by hundreds of engineers and dozens of mission‑critical services. As we ensure safe, low friction delivery of core services andoperateat scale, the Engineering Manager will lead a team providing cloudplatforms andinfrastructure, cloud security, governance, automation, and operational excellence.

This position blendspeopleleadership, 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 productmanager, weprovide acloudplatform strategy and roadmapthat aligns to Rightmove business goals and our internalcustomer’sneeds.

• Theteamprovidesaccurateestimates and realistic plans.

• Theplatform roadmap, initiatives/projects, and OKRs arewell managedand deliveredin 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 teamobjectivesand organisational priorities.

• Engineers are supportedtodesigning and delivering scalable, secure, resilient platform services without micromanagement.

• Achievements arerecognisedand rewarded, performance issues are addressed early and fairly.

• There is an inclusive, psychologically safeenvironment;with leadership tailored to individual strengths and motivations.

Platform Engineering, Operations&Reliability

• Cloudplatform and keyservices arereliable,incident detection and resolutionaresmooth due to proactive monitoring, well‑maintainedalerts/logs, and complete observability coverage.

• Platform resilience and DR planning/testing strategyisdefined and operational,working across the business with validated requirements and outcomes.

• Backup,restoreand resilience mechanisms are regularly tested, ensuring the platform can recover predictably.

• Incident management processes are consistently followed, includingtimelypost‑incident reviews (PIRs) and completion of follow‑up actions.

• On‑call is well staffed, sustainablyoperated, 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, withprioritisationbased 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.

• Finopsculture is embedded with tooling and process across product development teams

• Vendor relationships aremanaged