Platform Lead

Platform Lead

  

This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.

Job Description:

   

We’re looking for a Platform Lead to own the technical direction, operational health, and continuous improvement of one or more core technology platforms. This role is accountable for platform reliability, standards, and outcomes, while providing hands‑on technical leadership to engineering teams.

You’ll balance hands-on technical credibility with day‑to‑day team leadership, ensuring platforms are stable, secure, automated, and run to agreed standards.

What you’ll do

• Own the end‑to‑end technical health and operational performance of assigned platforms

• Define and maintain platform standards, patterns, and supported configurations

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to platform and operations engineers

• Act as the escalation point for complex technical and operational issues

• Drive automation, standardisation, and repeatable ways of working

• Own incident response, root cause analysis, and problem remediation

• Ensure platforms meet security, governance, and compliance requirements

• Partner with architecture, security, and delivery teams on platform roadmaps

• Balance operational stability with platform evolution and improvement

• Ensure documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures are current

• Support on‑call operations and major incidents as a senior escalation

What you’ll bring

• Strong hands‑on experience operating enterprise platforms in production

• Proven experience in a senior engineer, platform lead, or technical leadership role

• Strong understanding of operational disciplines (incident, problem, change)(ITIL)

• Experience setting standards and driving consistency across teams

• Ability to troubleshoot complex, multi‑layer technical issues

• Strong understanding of security, access control, and governance principles

• Clear, pragmatic communication and decision‑making skills

• Ability to influence without direct authority

This role suits someone who wants to own a platform, set technical direction, and improve operational stability.

Accountability, Accountability, Action Planning, Active Learning, Active Listening, Bias, Business Growth, Business Planning, Coaching, Commercial Acumen, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Customer Experience Strategy, Customer Solutions, Data Analysis Management, Data Collection Management (Inactive), Data Controls, Design Thinking, Empathy, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity {+ 5 more}

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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Job:

Services

Job Level:

Master

    

    

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.

   

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