Lead Platform Engineer

When things get complex you’re the person everyone turns too. You love to shape systems, using your expertise to craft engineering excellence, you guide others through challenges you’ve faced before and make technology work at scale. Join to design, deliver and evolve modern cloud platforms, engineering for the future. In this role, you will be recognised as a subject matter expert in core technologies. You will bring deep technical knowledge while also providing hands-on leadership to the engineering teams around you. You’ll set the direction within your team and ensure solutions are designed, built and operated with production in mind, moving the different bits of work along simultaneously to deliver against the bigger picture. Tool wise your expertise is within the cloud, AWS is second nature and you’ve worked with the majority of tools on offer. Terraform modules are bread and butter, you know what to write and how best to automate infrastructure. Kubernetes have been part of the day to day, you understand under the hood, knowing how to troubleshoot, deploy and spin up clusters to meet a scaling platform environment. Fundamentally, you are a problem solver at heart, willing to use tools to figure things out. It doesn’t matter to you whether it’s something you have used before or something new, what matters is the end result. Supporting junior engineers will be part of your day-to-day work, mentoring them when they are unsure how to tackle a problem and helping them develop into confident platform professionals. Above all, this position is about impact. You will combine strong technical judgement with business awareness, understanding how your work fits into the wider business and recognising opportunities to bring the right people together to deliver successful technical outcomes. If you are passionate about modern platform engineering, enjoy influencing technical direction and want to help shape solutions used at real scale, this is an opportunity to make your mark while working alongside some of the brightest engineers in the industry.