AWS Platform Lead — DevOps, SRE & Kubernetes

Hackajob Ltd; Waterside; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 101,000; Full time

Job summary

Hackajob Ltd, in partnership with Kainos, is hiring a Lead Platform Engineer (Consultant) in Scotland. You will lead teams to design, automate, and optimize modern digital service platforms using AWS, Kubernetes, and PaaS, advancing DevOps practices.

In a fast-paced environment, you will mentor staff, coordinate with engineering, testing, product management, and security, and push for best practices, cloud-native architectures, and cost optimization.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience guiding cross-functional teams.
• Strong DevOps culture advocacy and delivery experience.
• Hands-on AWS, Kubernetes, and SaaS/PaaS platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams to design, automate, build, manage, and optimise platforms.
• Collaborate with engineering, testing, product management, and security.
• Mentor staff and foster DevOps practices across projects.

Skills

Team leadership

DevOps culture

AWS

Kubernetes

SRE tooling

Communication

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Platform automation

Job description

Hackajob Ltd, in partnership with Kainos, is hiring a Lead Platform Engineer (Consultant) in Scotland. You will lead teams to design, automate, and optimize modern digital service platforms using AWS, Kubernetes, and PaaS, advancing DevOps practices.

In a fast-paced environment, you will mentor staff, coordinate with engineering, testing, product management, and security, and push for best practices, cloud-native architectures, and cost optimization.