Platform Engineering Manager - Internal Developer Platform

• We prioritise office presence and emphasise in-person collaboration, but also offer appropriate adjustments where needed, in line with company policy
• Extra wellbeing days on top of your annual leave allowance
• Up to 3 paid volunteering days each year
• 24/7 confidential Employee Assistance Programme (wellbeing, mental health, legal and financial support)
• Learning and development support via the Frontiers Learning Hub
• Competitive local benefits country dependent (e.g. healthcare and pension/retirement provision)

At Frontiers Media, we are rewriting the rules of scientific publishing. Our Internal Developer Platform helps engineering teams move faster through golden paths, self-service capabilities, and built-in guardrails, while supporting a broader vision for an AI-first, governed Agentic Engineering Platform.

This is an opportunity to shape a platform at the centre of how engineering happens at Frontiers. You will help create the foundations that enable teams to build, ship, and operate with confidence while balancing speed, reliability, and governance in an evolving agent-enabled environment.

As Platform Engineering Manager - Internal Developer Platform, you will lead a high-impact team responsible for the platform capabilities that support engineering teams across the organization. You will guide delivery and technical direction, support the growth of your team, and work closely with platform, product, and cloud architecture partners to evolve the platform toward safe, scalable agent-enabled workflows. Few companies have turned an IDP into an Agentic Engineering Platform yet. You'll do it with a clear mandate from top management, and with the team that already owns AI-First Delivery at Frontiers. Platform engineering gets more valuable in the agentic era, not less: the platform does most of the work and the model a small part, and the throughput of many agents working in parallel is a property of the platform, not of the model. You'll lead the people who make agents safe and useful for every engineering team - all in service of a mission that matters: making science open for everyone.

• Delivery (DORA): lead time, deployment frequency and change failure rate improve, for changes agents write too: a growing share of agent-written changes without a higher change failure rate.
• Agentic maturity: agent paths in production and the level of autonomy they run at; the share of generated code that goes through a governed path.
• Agent quality & cost: success rate of agent runs, acceptance and revert rates of agent changes, review overhead, cost per merged pull request, and spend within budget.
• Governance: every agent has an identity, a scope and a budget, and every agent run can be traced: who acted, with what, at what cost.
• Adoption & developer experience: teams on golden paths and agent paths, developer satisfaction, fewer shadow tools.
• People: team health, retention and growth; engineers who own paths, agents and feedback loops.

• Lead the team that builds and operates Frontiers' Internal Developer Platform and evolves it into an AI-first, governed Agentic Engineering Platform.
• Own team delivery, technical direction, and people development.
• Partner in a delivery triad with the Platform Product Manager, Senior Platform Engineers, and Senior Cloud Architect.
• Ensure deterministic capabilities-including CI/CD, policy gates, and deployments-remain reliable while adding path specifications, agent infrastructure, governance, and model access for safe probabilistic and hybrid workflows.
• Oversee a platform environment spanning Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Backstage, Azure API Management, SonarQube, Entra ID, Key Vault, Azure Policy, New Relic, Grafana, C#/.NET, and Node.js.