Kubernetes Platform Owner, Engineering Manager

About The Opportunity

Job Type: Permanent

Application Deadline: 31 May 2026

Title: Kubernetes Platform Owner, Engineering Manager

Department: Enterprise Technology Services

Location: Cannon St/Kingswood Fields UK

Reports To: Head of Cloud Hosting Platforms (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes Product Owner)

Level: Associate Director

We share a commitment to making things better for clients and each other. We continually explore new technology and different ways of working to put our clients first. So bring your boldest ideas to our Cloud Engineering group and Kubernetes team and feel like you’re making progress.

About Your Team

We’re a platform engineering team across three regions, building Fidelity’s greenfield internal developer platform on AWS EKS. Everyone contributes to both development and operations of the platform, working iteratively in Kanban. We come from varied specialisations but share the same Extreme Programming principles and pull work from a common backlog. Engineers work across the full feature set, while having space to develop as subject-matter experts in specific areas.

We offer a Namespace-as-a-Service Kubernetes platform that offers isolated environments and on-demand infrastructure such as databases, caching and deployment tooling. Our approach is open source first, using CNCF projects including Cilium, Kyverno and Karpenter as core cluster add-ons.

We enable teams to deliver and scale applications by abstracting infrastructure through self-service. It’s an exciting time to join as we expand the platform to support more complex use cases and a multi-cluster model, you’ll hire engineers globally to support this growth.

About Your Role

You will play a central part in shaping and extending our internal developer platform which underpins how engineers build, deploy and operate applications across the organisation. Your decisions will directly influence developer experience, security and scalability.

You will lead a distributed engineering team, support their development, and guide day-to-day technical direction for the platform. You will define and refine the product vision, using customer feedback, stakeholder needs and market insight to set priorities and maintain a clear backlog. The role requires close collaboration with application developers, product owners, security and data teams, and includes contributing to enterprise architecture reviews to maintain engineering quality and compliance.

You will also work closely with our enablement group, who build features and resources that augment the platform and improve the developer experience. You will be a peer within the cloud engineering leads group and partner with the AWS and Azure platform product owners. As the platform expands to support more complex use cases, you will draw on your Kubernetes experience to set architectural direction, challenge technical leads and help them grow.

About You

You have strong Kubernetes experience and a solid software engineering background. You can lead technical direction, making architectural decisions that balance competing concerns to fit the context, and you are willing to challenge approaches when needed.

You have experience managing and developing engineers and shape team culture by leading through example. You build teams that take ownership of their systems, and take pride in delivering secure, resilient and reliable services as standard practice. As the platform grows in scope and complexity, you help engineers develop the judgment and confidence needed to support it.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the accountable lead for delivering secure, automated and commercially viable self service capabilities into the platform.
• Own and evolve the platform roadmap, using developer feedback, surveys and DORA metrics to guide priorities and improve developer experience.
• Build strong relationships across engineering, product and infrastructure teams, helping customers understand and use the platform effectively.
• Review and challenge proposed architectures to ensure they are secure, scalable and consistent, identifying risks and required changes.
• Contribute directly through design reviews and technical deep dives to maintain high engineering standards.
• Advocate for change within FIL Delivery, proposing improvements and agreeing solutions aligned with the Head of Cloud’s strategy.
• Lead a global engineering team, supporting individual growth and collective performance.
• Promote modern engineering practices and drive continual improvement through regular feedback loops.
• Ensure operational readiness and secure by default workflows, embedding policy as code to automate compliance.
• Use practical experience to influence adoption and raise engineering standards across teams.

Experience And Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have

• Excellent knowledge of Kubernetes and its ecosystem.
• A strong software engineering background with hands-on experience of cloud technologies.
• Confidence designing and reasoning about systems at scale.
• Strong experience designing and operating Continuous Delivery pipelines.
• Experience leading software engineering teams.
• Confidence owning a product and managing customer engagement.
• Familiarity with Extreme Programming practices, including pairing.
• A practical technical leadership style that supports agile Kanban delivery.
• Ability to solve problems across the stack using structured root cause analysis rather than relying solely on tooling.
• Works transparently, shares knowledge openly and builds strong, collaborative relationships across global teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• A genuine interest in technology, security and the cloud native ecosystem.

What Sets You Apart From The Crowd

• Strong experience with AWS EKS.
• Hands-on experience operating and engineering services on Kubernetes.
• Experience building or leading an Internal Developer Platform.
• Visible presence in the cloud native community through open source contributions, community engagement or conference speaking.
• Confident reviewing pull requests in Python and Golang.
• Strong object-oriented programming skills.
• Experience leading globally distributed engineering teams.

Key skills/competency

• Kubernetes
• Platform Ownership
• Engineering Leadership
• AWS EKS
• Cloud Native
• Continuous Delivery
• Product Roadmap
• Developer Experience
• Distributed Teams Management
• Architecture Review