Platform Product Lead

Capabilities: Lead the management of the Gemini agent platform (with access to Anthropic models), reusable patterns and governance to empower teams to ship AI safely and quickly.Stay Hands-On: Write and review IaC (OpenTofu/Terraform, Helm, FluxCD, CI pipelines) and build with AI directly to test standards first-hand.Platform Operations & FinOps: Own cloud costs as a platform outcome, attribution of spend, patch currency, availability scorecards, and end-of-life exposure.Technical Direction & Modernisation: Act as the accountable decision-maker across architecture/design reviews and drive in-flight modernisation programmes.Vendor & Team Leadership: Manage key vendor relationships (Google Cloud, Confluent, Tyk, Datadog) and grow the platform engineering team with SRE, DevSecOps, and agent engineering depth.What you'll bringKubernetes & Cloud Expertise: Substantial hands-on experience running production Kubernetes (ideally Google Cloud/GKE) managing business-critical

estates.Infrastructure as Code & GitOps: Deep practical fluency in Terraform/OpenTofu and FluxCD/Argo CD.Platform Product Mindset: Demonstrate the ability to manage and own our platform as a product (roadmaps, adoption metrics, service levels).Commercial & Stakeholder Acumen: Strong cloud FinOps experience, vendor negotiation, and the ability to articulate technical debt/costs to executives.Key Behaviours: Decisive, customer-focused (treating internal engineers as customers), pragmatic, curious, and collaborative.What you'll getYou'll find every opportunity to be yourself and to bring your personality and potential to work. Wherever you join us there will be opportunities to take your career wherever you want; up the ladder, across the business or into another role in the Travis Perkins Group. And because we want to do our best for you, you'll be supported all the way with training and development. We'll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the