Rightmove
Platform Engineering Manager (Cloud Foundations) London, UK 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 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 Platform Engineering, Operations & Reliability Backup, restore and resilience mechanisms are regularly tested, ensuring the platform can recover predictably. The platform is 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. Incident management processes are consistently followed, including timely post incident reviews (PIRs) and completion of follow up actions. Repeat incidents are rare due to effective root cause analysis and remediation. 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. Delivery and Execution Ensure the team is providing accurate estimates and realistic plans. Manage platform roadmap, initiatives/projects, and OKR delivery in line with expectations. Align cloud platform strategy and delivery plans with business goals, partnering with technical product manager, DX, DBA, security, SRE, and data teams. Coach and mentor engineers to improve skills, confidence, and impact. Sets clear, achievable development goals and provides actionable feedback. Aligns individual growth plans with team objectives and organisational priorities. Run effective 1:1s, set clear growth goals, recognise achievements and address performance early and fairly. Create an inclusive, psychologically safe environment; tailor leadership to individual strengths and motivations. 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. 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 IAM. Experience with IAC, python, Go, CI/CD, Terraform, Kubernetes, modern ops tooling and DevOps workflows. Demonstrated experience implementing security controls, IAM policies, and cloud governance frameworks. Familiarity with platform engineering concepts including developer platforms, reusable platform components and enabling internal product teams. Experience improving operational processes and developing documented procedures (monitoring, DR, incident response, upgrade processes). Strong leadership, team management, collaboration and communication skills, aligned with expectations for managing technical cloud teams. Experience designing scalable, reliable cloud platform architectures, consistent with Cloud. About Rightmove Our vision is to give everyone the belief that 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. Despite this growth, we've remained a friendly, supportive place to work, with employee still working here! We've done this by placing the Rightmove Hows at the heart of everything we do. These are the essential values that reflect our culture, and include: We create value by delivering results and building trust with partners and consumers. We think bigger by acting with curiosity and setting bold aspirations. We care deeply by being real, having fun, and valuing diversity. We move together by being one team - internally collaborative, externally competitive. We make a difference by focusing on delivering measurable impact. We believe in careers that open doors and help our team develop by providing an open and inclusive work environment, offering ongoing training opportunities, and supporting charity fundraising events. And with 88% of Rightmovers saying we're a great place to work, we're clearly doing something right! If all of this has caught your eye, you may well be a Rightmover in the making People are the foundation of Rightmove - We'll help you build a career on it. What we offer Cash plan for dental, optical and physio treatments. Private Medical Insurance, Pension and Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Plan. 27 days holiday plus two (paid) volunteering days a year to give back, and holiday buy schemes. Hybrid working pattern with 2 days in the office. Contributory stakeholder pension. Life assurance at 4x your basic salary to a spouse, family member or other nominated person in your life. Competitive compensation package. Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility. Travel Loans, Bike to Work scheme, Rental Deposit Loan. Charitable contributions through Payroll Giving and donation matching. Access deals and discounts on things like travel, electronics, fashion, gym memberships, cinema discounts and more. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Rightmove will never discriminate based on age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage / civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity or sexual orientation. At Rightmove, we believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce leads to better innovation, productivity, and overall success. We are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of their background or identity, to develop and promote a diverse culture that reflects the communities we serve. By applying, you confirm that you are aged at least 18 or over and that you've read and understood our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle and protect your personal information during the recruitment process.
Platform Engineering Manager (Cloud Foundations) London, UK 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 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 Platform Engineering, Operations & Reliability Backup, restore and resilience mechanisms are regularly tested, ensuring the platform can recover predictably. The platform is 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. Incident management processes are consistently followed, including timely post incident reviews (PIRs) and completion of follow up actions. Repeat incidents are rare due to effective root cause analysis and remediation. 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. Delivery and Execution Ensure the team is providing accurate estimates and realistic plans. Manage platform roadmap, initiatives/projects, and OKR delivery in line with expectations. Align cloud platform strategy and delivery plans with business goals, partnering with technical product manager, DX, DBA, security, SRE, and data teams. Coach and mentor engineers to improve skills, confidence, and impact. Sets clear, achievable development goals and provides actionable feedback. Aligns individual growth plans with team objectives and organisational priorities. Run effective 1:1s, set clear growth goals, recognise achievements and address performance early and fairly. Create an inclusive, psychologically safe environment; tailor leadership to individual strengths and motivations. 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. 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 IAM. Experience with IAC, python, Go, CI/CD, Terraform, Kubernetes, modern ops tooling and DevOps workflows. Demonstrated experience implementing security controls, IAM policies, and cloud governance frameworks. Familiarity with platform engineering concepts including developer platforms, reusable platform components and enabling internal product teams. Experience improving operational processes and developing documented procedures (monitoring, DR, incident response, upgrade processes). Strong leadership, team management, collaboration and communication skills, aligned with expectations for managing technical cloud teams. Experience designing scalable, reliable cloud platform architectures, consistent with Cloud. About Rightmove Our vision is to give everyone the belief that 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. Despite this growth, we've remained a friendly, supportive place to work, with employee still working here! We've done this by placing the Rightmove Hows at the heart of everything we do. These are the essential values that reflect our culture, and include: We create value by delivering results and building trust with partners and consumers. We think bigger by acting with curiosity and setting bold aspirations. We care deeply by being real, having fun, and valuing diversity. We move together by being one team - internally collaborative, externally competitive. We make a difference by focusing on delivering measurable impact. We believe in careers that open doors and help our team develop by providing an open and inclusive work environment, offering ongoing training opportunities, and supporting charity fundraising events. And with 88% of Rightmovers saying we're a great place to work, we're clearly doing something right! If all of this has caught your eye, you may well be a Rightmover in the making People are the foundation of Rightmove - We'll help you build a career on it. What we offer Cash plan for dental, optical and physio treatments. Private Medical Insurance, Pension and Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Plan. 27 days holiday plus two (paid) volunteering days a year to give back, and holiday buy schemes. Hybrid working pattern with 2 days in the office. Contributory stakeholder pension. Life assurance at 4x your basic salary to a spouse, family member or other nominated person in your life. Competitive compensation package. Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility. Travel Loans, Bike to Work scheme, Rental Deposit Loan. Charitable contributions through Payroll Giving and donation matching. Access deals and discounts on things like travel, electronics, fashion, gym memberships, cinema discounts and more. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Rightmove will never discriminate based on age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage / civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity or sexual orientation. At Rightmove, we believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce leads to better innovation, productivity, and overall success. We are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of their background or identity, to develop and promote a diverse culture that reflects the communities we serve. By applying, you confirm that you are aged at least 18 or over and that you've read and understood our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle and protect your personal information during the recruitment process.
Rightmove
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 As a Data Analyst at Rightmove, you'll play a pivotal role in driving business growth by providing actionable insights to our valued partners. You'll work closely with stakeholders across different departments to uncover trends, optimise operations, and enhance partner satisfaction. Your work will directly impact strategic decision making and contribute to the overall success of the business. What you'll be doing Data Analysis: Conduct in depth analysis of large datasets to uncover trends, patterns, and key insights. Lead on generating insights about Rightmove's partners, including market share changes, product and operational effectiveness. Produce insights that demonstrate the value that partners receive from our advertising products. Identify and document reporting requirements based on stakeholder needs. Collaborate with Analytics Engineering to build robust and reliable data models. Create and maintain high quality reports and dashboards, encouraging self service of information. Develop effective visualisations to communicate complex data in a clear and concise manner. Cross Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with cross functional teams to align data initiatives with business objectives. Present findings to key stakeholders and external partners. Support sales team with contract proposals. Data Governance: Adhere to data governance standards and best practices to ensure data quality and security. We're looking for someone who Has a minimum of 3 years' experience in a similar role. Has a proven track record in delivering data driven insights with a measurable impact on business outcomes in a fast paced, dynamic environment. Possesses advanced proficiency in SQL and experience with Looker Core; experience in DBT would be a bonus. Thrives in a fast paced environment, building strong partnerships with stakeholders and sharing knowledge openly within a collaborative team. Possesses exceptional problem solving abilities, attention to detail, and the capacity to handle multiple projects simultaneously. Effectively conveys complex data insights to both technical and non technical audiences through strong written and verbal communication skills. Is passionate about data and a desire to use it to drive business growth. Enjoys continuously learning and staying up to date with the latest data technologies and trends. Benefits Cash plan for dental, optical and physio treatments. Private Medical Insurance, Pension and Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Plan. 27 days holiday plus two paid volunteering days a year and holiday buy schemes. Contributory stakeholder pension. Life assurance at 4 your basic salary to a spouse, family member or other nominated person. Competitive compensation package. Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility. Travel loans, bike to work scheme, rental deposit loan. Charitable contributions through payroll giving and donation matching. Access deals and discounts on travel, electronics, fashion, gym memberships, cinema, etc. Hybrid working with a minimum of 2 days in the office. Equal Opportunity Employer We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will never discriminate based on age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, or sexual orientation. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce leads to better innovation, productivity, and overall success, and we are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of their background or identity, so that we can develop and promote a diverse culture that reflects the communities we serve.
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 As a Data Analyst at Rightmove, you'll play a pivotal role in driving business growth by providing actionable insights to our valued partners. You'll work closely with stakeholders across different departments to uncover trends, optimise operations, and enhance partner satisfaction. Your work will directly impact strategic decision making and contribute to the overall success of the business. What you'll be doing Data Analysis: Conduct in depth analysis of large datasets to uncover trends, patterns, and key insights. Lead on generating insights about Rightmove's partners, including market share changes, product and operational effectiveness. Produce insights that demonstrate the value that partners receive from our advertising products. Identify and document reporting requirements based on stakeholder needs. Collaborate with Analytics Engineering to build robust and reliable data models. Create and maintain high quality reports and dashboards, encouraging self service of information. Develop effective visualisations to communicate complex data in a clear and concise manner. Cross Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with cross functional teams to align data initiatives with business objectives. Present findings to key stakeholders and external partners. Support sales team with contract proposals. Data Governance: Adhere to data governance standards and best practices to ensure data quality and security. We're looking for someone who Has a minimum of 3 years' experience in a similar role. Has a proven track record in delivering data driven insights with a measurable impact on business outcomes in a fast paced, dynamic environment. Possesses advanced proficiency in SQL and experience with Looker Core; experience in DBT would be a bonus. Thrives in a fast paced environment, building strong partnerships with stakeholders and sharing knowledge openly within a collaborative team. Possesses exceptional problem solving abilities, attention to detail, and the capacity to handle multiple projects simultaneously. Effectively conveys complex data insights to both technical and non technical audiences through strong written and verbal communication skills. Is passionate about data and a desire to use it to drive business growth. Enjoys continuously learning and staying up to date with the latest data technologies and trends. Benefits Cash plan for dental, optical and physio treatments. Private Medical Insurance, Pension and Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Plan. 27 days holiday plus two paid volunteering days a year and holiday buy schemes. Contributory stakeholder pension. Life assurance at 4 your basic salary to a spouse, family member or other nominated person. Competitive compensation package. Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility. Travel loans, bike to work scheme, rental deposit loan. Charitable contributions through payroll giving and donation matching. Access deals and discounts on travel, electronics, fashion, gym memberships, cinema, etc. Hybrid working with a minimum of 2 days in the office. Equal Opportunity Employer We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will never discriminate based on age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, or sexual orientation. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce leads to better innovation, productivity, and overall success, and we are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of their background or identity, so that we can develop and promote a diverse culture that reflects the communities we serve.