Hybrid AWS/Kubernetes Senior Platform Engineer

Netcompany; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Private medical

Pension

Life Assurance

Certifications supported

Employee discounts

ERGs

Job summary

Netcompany in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the platform engineering function for a major client, owning technical direction, delivery and reliability of a large-scale AWS platform. You will shape the multi-year roadmap, mentor a team of engineers, and act as the senior technical point of contact.

You will lead a team responsible for designing, building and operating a large-scale AWS platform, working closely with the customer and internal delivery teams.

Qualifications

• Significant leadership in DevOps/platform/SRE.
• Expert AWS across compute, networking, data, security and edge services.
• Hands-on production Kubernetes with EKS, service mesh, autoscaling and GitOps deployment.
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and a code-first approach.
• Proven CI/CD ownership with Azure DevOps and Argo CD with automated gates.
• Strong observability, incident management, resilience and DR in 24/7 environments.
• Security/compliance knowledge, vulnerability management and external providers.
• FinOps and cloud cost optimisation experience balancing cost, performance and resilience.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and develop the platform engineering team, covering resourcing, recruitment, performance management and on-call rota design.
• Own the platform across environments, setting multi-year technical direction and roadmap, including Kubernetes and service mesh upgrades.
• Design, build and operate AWS infrastructure as code using Terraform, and run AWS platforms (EKS, Karpenter, Istio, GitOps).

Skills

People leadership

Team collaboration

Strategic thinking

Effective communication

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Argo CD

Istio

GitOps

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

OpenSearch

CloudWatch

Job description

Netcompany in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the platform engineering function for a major client, owning technical direction, delivery and reliability of a large-scale AWS platform. You will shape the multi-year roadmap, mentor a team of engineers, and act as the senior technical point of contact.

You will lead a team responsible for designing, building and operating a large-scale AWS platform, working closely with the customer and internal delivery teams.