Lead Cloud Platform Engineer - AWS

Lead Cloud Platform Engineer

Join a forward-thinking technology business where platform engineering is central to delivering secure, scalable cloud services. This is an opportunity to combine deep technical expertise with leadership, helping shape the platform strategy while mentoring a high-performing engineering team.

Role Overview

• Location: Hybrid / Remote (location to be confirmed)
• Package: Competitive salary + benefits
• Industry: Regulated

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead the reliability, scalability and continuous evolution of a Kubernetes platform running on AWS EKS.
• Own the platform engineering roadmap, working closely with technical and business stakeholders to prioritise initiatives and align delivery with wider objectives.
• Lead, mentor and support a team of platform engineers, promoting technical excellence, collaboration and continuous development.
• Act as the primary technical contact for platform-related initiatives across engineering, product and operations teams.
• Drive GitOps practices using Flux, maintaining and improving deployment and reconciliation processes across environments.
• Manage and optimise AWS managed services including EKS, MSK and RDS, ensuring performance, resilience and cost efficiency.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, creating scalable, reusable modules across multiple environments.
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to support the reliable delivery of containerised applications.
• Work alongside development teams to support and troubleshoot Java, Kotlin and Python services running within Kubernetes.
• Identify technical debt and lead continuous platform improvements that strengthen reliability, security and operational efficiency.
• Participate in the on-call rota, leading incident response, driving root cause analysis and embedding long-term improvements.

Main Skills Needed

• Extensive experience managing Kubernetes in production, ideally within AWS EKS environments.
• Strong expertise with GitOps using Flux, alongside Helm and Kustomize.
• Hands-on experience with AWS managed services including EKS, MSK and RDS.
• Strong Terraform experience building and maintaining modular Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience developing and supporting CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Good understanding of containerised Java, Kotlin and/or Python applications.
• Proven experience leading platform or infrastructure engineering teams, including mentoring, coaching and supporting performance.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A strong operational mindset with experience leading incident management, on-call processes and post-incident reviews.

What's in It for You

• A leadership role with real influence over platform strategy and engineering direction.
• The opportunity to work with a modern cloud-native technology stack and best-in-class tooling.
• A collaborative environment where you'll help shape engineering standards and mentor talented engineers.
• The autonomy to drive technical improvements and platform innovation.
• Competitive salary and benefits package with opportunities for ongoing professional growth.

If you bring the spark, we'll give you the platform.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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