Risk Ledger

Supply chain security risk monitoring platform

Engineering Manager - Platform, Enablement

Engineering LeadershipConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeLondon, UK

About the Job

Requirements

Hands-on experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or site reliability engineering, including running production systems at scale.
Strong production experience with Amazon Web Services and Kubernetes or Docker.
Experience with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform or CloudFormation, and modern continuous integration and continuous delivery practices.
Experience owning reliability, including incident management, service-level objectives, observability, performance, and capacity planning.
Security-minded design and a working understanding of cloud security and compliance.
A solid grounding in relational databases, including Postgres or SQL, and asynchronous messaging.
Enough familiarity with Go and the wider stack to engage credibly in design reviews.
A track record of managing engineers or teams, ideally platform or infrastructure teams.
Clear communication with senior and non-technical stakeholders on capacity, constraints, and risk.
Motivation by the growth and success of your people.

Responsibilities

Set technical direction and a roadmap for platform, DevOps, and site reliability engineering work, and prioritize it against feature demand.
Treat the platform as a product by understanding internal teams’ needs, measuring adoption and satisfaction, and investing where it removes the most friction.
Improve continuous integration and continuous delivery, infrastructure as code, and developer tooling to reduce lead times and operational toil.
Make trade-offs on scalability, security, cost, and resilience in Amazon Web Services, and own the platform’s cloud spend.
Own service-level objectives, error budgets, and observability across the platform and the services that run on it.
Lead incident response and on-call practices, and run blameless post-incident reviews that lead to change.
Build security-minded design into platform defaults, working with security and compliance.
Partner with the Expansion team lead and Product Managers so platform capacity and constraints are visible in planning.
Balance technical investment against new development, and communicate trade-offs on capacity and risk to senior and non-technical stakeholders.
Use team charters (Team APIs) to define Enablement’s mission, interaction modes, and boundaries with stream-aligned teams.
Coach and develop engineers, and build a culture of constructive feedback and psychological safety.
Lead hiring and retention for platform and site reliability engineering roles.
Lead complex cross-team projects such as migrations and platform changes, and guide teams through technical and organizational change.
Work with the Head of Engineering and Principal Engineers to mature engineering practices across technology, people, and process.

Desired Qualifications

Experience treating a platform as an internal product, with measurable developer-experience outcomes.
Familiarity with Team Topologies and the DORA metrics.
Experience working with Product on prioritization across platform and feature work.

About us

Risk Ledger is developing a network of connected organisations, all working together to defend against cybersecurity attacks in the supply chain.

Organisations rely on us to establish trust, through sharing their security maturity and visualising the risks posed by their supply chain ecosystem. And we’re already trusted by customers like British Airways, BAE Systems and the NHS.

We are putting together an amazing and talented team from a diverse set of backgrounds and skillsets to drive us towards our vision. Risk Ledger is built on the respect we have for one another and our users, united by our shared values and mission.

Every one of us is still learning: it’s how we grow as individuals. We’re curious. We’re ambitious. And we’re humble and honest. At Risk Ledger, we aim high to find the best solutions we can and always put our users first.

The role

You’ll lead Enablement, our platform group, which owns the infrastructure, delivery pipelines and reliability practices every engineering team builds on. You’ll also work closely with Expansion, the group building new features and product specs, so the platform speeds up feature delivery and product ambitions are grounded in what the platform can safely support.

Our core stack is Go, AWS and Vue.js, built cloud-native with modern design principles.

What you’ll do

Platform strategy and delivery

Set technical direction and a roadmap for platform, DevOps and SRE work, and prioritise it against feature demand.
Treat the platform as a product: understand what internal teams need, measure adoption and satisfaction, and invest where it removes the most friction.
Improve CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code and developer tooling to cut lead times and operational toil.
Make sound trade-offs on scalability, security, cost and resilience in AWS, and own the platform’s cloud spend.

Reliability and operations

Own SLOs, error budgets and observability across the platform and the services that run on it.
Lead incident response and on-call practices, and run blameless post-incident reviews that lead to real change.
Build security-minded design into platform defaults, working with security and compliance, which matters given the sensitive data our customers entrust to us.

Working with Product and Expansion

Partner with the Expansion team lead and Product Managers so platform capacity and constraints are visible in planning.
Balance technical investment against new build, and communicate trade-offs on capacity and risk clearly to senior and non-technical stakeholders.
Use team charters (Team APIs) to define Enablement’s mission, interaction modes and boundaries with stream-aligned teams.

People and leadership

Coach and develop engineers, and build a culture of constructive feedback and psychological safety.
Lead hiring and retention for platform and SRE roles.
Lead complex cross-team projects such as migrations and platform changes, and guide teams through technical and organisational change.
Work with the Head of Engineering and Principal Engineers to mature engineering practices across technology, people and process.

What you’ll bring

Essential

Hands-on experience in platform engineering, DevOps or SRE, including running production systems at scale.
Strong production experience with AWS and Kubernetes/Docker.
Infrastructure-as-code experience (for example Terraform or CloudFormation) and modern CI/CD practice.
Experience owning reliability: incident management, SLOs, observability, performance and capacity planning.
Security-minded design and a working understanding of cloud security and compliance.
Solid grounding in relational databases (Postgres/SQL) and asynchronous messaging.
Enough familiarity with Go and our wider stack to engage credibly in design reviews.
A track record of managing engineers or teams, ideally platform or infrastructure teams.
Clear communication with senior and non-technical stakeholders on capacity, constraints and risk.
Motivation by the growth and success of your people.

Desirable

Experience treating a platform as an internal product, with measurable developer-experience outcomes.
Familiarity with Team Topologies and the DORA metrics.
Experience working with Product on prioritisation across both platform and feature work.

The perks:

💰Competitive base salary
📈Generous EMI equity package
👌Private pension
✈️28 days annual leave + bank holidays
🏖Additional 30 days of unpaid leave per year to use as you wish
🎆Ad-hoc companywide time off over the festive period
🏥Private healthcare with AXA Insurance - including enhanced mental wellbeing coverage
🏠Hybrid working policy, typically 2-3 days in the office
👶Enhanced family (parental) leave - gender-neutral policy, 12 weeks paid leave
👪5 days Caretaker's leave
😷Enhanced occupational sick pay
💻£500 WFH budget
📚All the learning resources and books you want to aid in your personal development
🎉 Regular socials to unwind and have some fun

Salary range

£110,000—£135,000 GBP

Salary range 110000 - 135000 GBP

About the Company

Risk Ledger

Supply chain security risk monitoring platform

Risk Ledger provides a subscription-based platform for supply chain security that continuously monitors and assesses the security posture of a company’s vendors and supply chain partners. It helps large enterprises manage vendor risk through real-time monitoring, risk assessments, and compliance management tools, aiming to prevent security breaches and financial failures and to ensure operational continuity. The platform differentiates itself by offering an award-winning, comprehensive solution tailored for complex supply chains, enabling proactive risk mitigation across the entire vendor ecosystem. The company’s goal is to reduce risk exposure and increase resilience for organizations’ supply chains, especially during crises.

Company size: 51-200
Company stage: Series B
Total funding: $45.3M
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 2018

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