Lead Platform Engineer

JR United Kingdom; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading PropTech company in London is seeking a platform team lead with extensive experience in DevOps and AWS. This role involves guiding a team in maintaining secure and efficient software delivery, enhancing security standards, and optimizing cloud environments. Join a rapidly growing scale-up committed to building greener and smarter workspaces.

Benefits

Opportunity to shape team culture

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps and AWS.
• 2+ years of experience with C#.
• Experience in mentoring and leading small teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the platform engineering team.
• Work with the security team to maintain a secure infrastructure.
• Optimize the cloud environment to reduce costs.

Skills

DevOps

AWS

C#

Infrastructure as Code

SQL Server

Tools

TeamCity

Octopus Deploy

CloudFormation

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

New Relic

Job description

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Location: Remote (with ability to travel occasionally) or Hybrid, office in Aldgate, London.

Role Introduction:

We are an award-winning, industry-leading PropTech company, developing pioneering tech platforms for building management systems, control, and communication.

We are a rapidly growing, successful scale-up, and are looking for talented and highly motivated individuals who are ready to help take us to the next level.

We are seeking an experienced and proactive platform team lead with a strong background in DevOps, AWS, and security. This role will guide our DevOps team in designing, implementing, and maintaining infrastructure and tools for scalable, secure, and efficient software delivery and monitoring.

Security is critical to our application, used by large enterprise customers; this role will be responsible for enhancing our standards (SOC 2 and ISO27001) to maintain a secure environment and protect customer data, as well as maintaining best practices for the cloud. We are looking for someone who can lead and mentor the platform team as well as possess solid technical skills.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor the platform engineering team, fostering growth, collaboration, and best practices
• Work with the security team to maintain a secure infrastructure aligned with SOC 2 and ISO27001 standards
• Optimize the cloud environment to reduce costs
• Extend automation solutions for infrastructure and application deployment and monitoring
• Improve our CI/CD pipeline (TeamCity and Octopus Deploy)
• Enhance monitoring and alerting systems using Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, and in-house applications (C# / .NET)
• Maintain and improve application reliability in production
• Collaborate with QA for automated testing tasks
• Develop solutions to improve the developer experience

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps and AWS
• Ownership of CI/CD systems, especially with TeamCity and Octopus Deploy
• Strong understanding of Continuous Delivery, Site Reliability, and Developer Experience practices
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with security, development, and product teams
• 2+ years of experience with C#
• Experience in mentoring, technical leadership, or leading small teams
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools such as CloudFormation or Terraform
• DBA skills, especially with SQL Server
• Experience with other cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, OCI)

Our values:

We believe our strong commitment to our values differentiates us. They are at the core of everything we do, whether serving our clients or each other. We welcome candidates who share this ethos.

• We care and are conscientious
• We are personable and respectful
• We are passionate and enthusiastic

If you share our values and believe you can contribute to making our company the best it can be, join us to help build the future of greener, smarter, and more connected workspaces.

• Opportunity to shape team culture and technical direction