Platform Lead - Hosting
Easyjet
Overview
As Platform Lead – Hosting, you own the internal developer platform and cloud foundations, delivering self‑service capabilities used by hundreds of engineers. You’ll treat the platform as a product with a clear vision, prioritized backlog, and measurable outcomes, driving adoption through great experience. You’ll lead a cross‑functional team and communicate progress and value to senior leaders. This role supports easyJet’s growth by ensuring secure, scalable multi‑cloud foundations and developer enablement.
Pay / Benefits- Competitive base salary
- 20% bonus potential
- 25 days holiday
- pension scheme
- life assurance
- discounted staff travel scheme
- Own multi-cloud Landing Zone strategy (AWS, Azure, GCP) including account design, network patterns, identity, policy-as-code, security baselines
- Build and promote golden paths that simplify secure, compliant workflows
- Drive adoption through excellent developer experience, not mandates
- Lead a cross-functional team with ownership culture and enablement
- Report progress, risks and value to senior leadership with clarity and confidence
- Led a platform, SRE or internal developer platform function with measurable outcomes
- Experience with product discovery and prioritization without over-building
- Strong background in cloud foundations: Landing Zones, IaC, guardrails, policy-as-code
- Ability to bridge engineering, security, architecture and leadership
- Treats agile as a mindset rather than ceremony
- Hands-on enough to earn credibility with engineers and strategic enough for director-level influence
- cross-functional collaboration
- stakeholder management
- product-minded problem solving
- multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Landing Zone design
- IaC (infrastructure as code)
Reference: WJ-747_30169925