Kubernetes Platform Engineering Lead

Trust In SODA; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Certification Scheme (AWS) by company

CKA certification program

Hashicorp certification

Uncapped progression

Pension 10%

Travel expenses to client site

Hybrid working

Job summary

Trust In SODA is recruiting a Managing & Lead Platform Engineer to join a high-profile UK government transformation project. You will lead Kubernetes-heavy platform teams and own ongoing support, optimisation and scaling across IaC, CI/CD and observability tools in production.

You will mentor managers and engineers, collaborate with client stakeholders to deliver robust, secure platforms, and help drive a multi-year DevOps transformation in hybrid working environments.

Qualifications

• Experience leading Kubernetes-heavy platforms.
• Strong background in IaC (Terraform/Ansible).
• Proven ability to own and drive CI/CD and observability in production.

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale Kubernetes-based platform teams across projects.
• Mentor engineers and manage line reporting relationships.

Skills

Leadership

Line management

Mentoring

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitOps

Github Actions

Jenkins

Observability

Dynatrace

Grafana

Job description

Trust In SODA is recruiting a Managing & Lead Platform Engineer to join a high-profile UK government transformation project. You will lead Kubernetes-heavy platform teams and own ongoing support, optimisation and scaling across IaC, CI/CD and observability tools in production.

You will mentor managers and engineers, collaborate with client stakeholders to deliver robust, secure platforms, and help drive a multi-year DevOps transformation in hybrid working environments.