Cloud Platform Product Manager - UK Security Clearance eligibility required

Cloud Platform Product Manager - Appvia - Security Clearance eligibility required.

Location: London, UK (Hybrid ~ 1-2 days in-office per week)
Package: £90,000 - 120,000 + 10% Bonus + 10% Shares + Benefits (see more below)

Contract: Permanent / Full-time

About Us

At Appvia, we're committed to helping our customers navigate their journey to Cloud and DevOps maturity. As a leading provider in the industry, we offer cutting-edge technologies and services to support our clients' cloud adoption journey.

Our mission is to enable every company to deliver apps in the cloud. We dedicate ourselves to building a cloud infrastructure layer that allows platform engineering teams to manage, monitor and update with ease - at the same time, offering devs the flexibility to deploy their apps in the cloud without a hassle. We are passionate about driving value to our clients and have a desire to make their organisation succeed.

About the role

As a Cloud Platform Product Manager, you’ll sit at the intersection of engineering, delivery, and user outcomes. You’ll lead product delivery for secure AWS-based platforms in government transformation programmes, shaping roadmaps that balance compliance, security, and performance with user experience.

This role is ideal for someone with a DevRel, DevEx, Platform or Product Lead background, who thrives in highly technical environments and is confident engaging both hands-on engineers and senior government stakeholders, aligning them with business objectives. Internally, you’ll have the opportunity to establish and lead Appvia’s strategy towards product management as part of our ambitious long term growth plans.

Interview process - 3 stage

• Discovery conversation with our Talent Acquisition Manager.
• Interview with Hiring Manager.
• Final Interview with Leadership.

Important

You must either hold active SC, or be eligible for SC:

• British Passport or ILR
• To have resided in the UK for at least the last 5 years.
• Have no criminal records.
• Have no financial irregularities.

Requirements

About you

Proven experience as a Technical Product Manager / Platform Product Owner in secure, complex environments, including the following:

• Strong AWS knowledge, including core services (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, CloudFront).
• Understanding of platform engineering concepts.
• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps toolchains
• Containerisation and Kubernetes.
• Secure multi-tenanted environments / landing zones.
• Experience working with UK government programmes (SC clearance eligible).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Skills & Experience

• Product Ownership
• Define and own the product vision and roadmap for secure AWS-based platform products used within government programmes.
• Align product delivery with business objectives, government standards (e.g., NCSC Cloud Security Principles), and compliance frameworks.
• Drive backlog prioritisation, balancing feature delivery, security requirements, and operational excellence.
  
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Act as the product voice with government stakeholders, ensuring user needs, compliance requirements, and strategic goals are met.
• Facilitate workshops, discovery sessions, and demos with end-users, security officers, and senior decision-makers.

• Technical Leadership
• Collaborate closely with platform engineers, architects, and security specialists to translate requirements into deliverables.
• Support the definition and rollout of outcome focussed SOWs, ensuring clear lines of responsibility between different platform focussed product teams. (eg CI/CD, Observability etc)
• Ensure delivery aligns with DevSecOps best practices (automation, IaC, continuous assurance).
  
• Governance & Reporting
• Define and monitor KPIs/OKRs for product success, including adoption, performance, cost optimisation, and compliance.
• Provide clear reporting to government stakeholders on progress, risks, and measurable outcomes.

Desirables

• Multi-cloud (Azure, GCP) exposure.
• Knowledge of FinOps and cloud cost optimisation.
• Hands-on software development or platform engineering background.
• Agile delivery at scale (dual-track agile, SAFe, LeSS).

Qualifications

• Certification in relevant cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP) at an expert/professional level is highly desirable, e.g.:
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional

• Certification in Kubernetes administration is desirable:
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKSS)

Benefits

Why join Appvia?

We are a self-funded, London based startup; providing businesses with a fast and secure way to deploy containerised applications into the cloud.

We are on a mission to enable organisations to make cloud-based software delivery simple and efficient, whilst having the insights into costs, security and cadence. As a company that holds customers at the heart of everything we do, we are looking for candidates that want to make a real change to how Dev and Ops is working in the industry.

With us our customers, like the UK’s Home Office & Bank of England, are harnessing cloud-native technologies, limiting the challenges of infrastructure management and rapidly delivering digital products.

What’s on offer?

⚖️ Work-life balance

• Flexible working with core hours of 10-4pm because we know life happens outside of work
• Hybrid working - only one compulsory office day per month
• 25 days’ holiday a year, plus bank holidays
• An additional day off for your birthday
• Enhanced maternity and paternity to full pay
• Workplace Nursery Benefit to help working parents

💚 For your well-being

• Full Private Healthcare cover for you with partners and children covered 50%
• Death in Service
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• Pension plus a salary sacrifice option for even greater savings
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Free hygiene products available in the London office

🧠 Mental health support

• Free therapy through AXA
• Access to the Headspace App
• Trained Mental Health First Aiders

😃 Other fun perks

• Learning budget of £1,000 a year
• Your own MacBook Pro while you work at Appvia
• Dog friendly office
• Wear what makes you comfortable
• Free snacks in the office
• Pool table & ping pong table
• Regular team socials, board game nights, industry meetups and more!

But don’t just take our word for it, you can check out what our Appvians say about us on Glassdoor and by following us on LinkedIn, Twitter and TikTok.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and actively encourage, respect, and recognise diversity of thought and background throughout the business. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity, and disability status.

Note: While all roles are active and approved at the time of posting, the dynamic nature of our start-up means some applications may be processed to pipeline talent for future opportunities rather than current openings. We will strive to keep you informed of any changes to the status of your application.