Lead Platform Engineer

LinuxRecruit; England; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

LinuxRecruit seeks a Platform Engineering leader to guide a team of engineers within a national-scale Centre of Excellence. You will shape how modern cloud platforms are designed, built, and operated across AWS, Kubernetes, and microservices architectures.

You will mentor engineers, influence technical direction, and champion best practices in IaC, CI/CD, and observability to deliver reliable services at scale.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead engineering teams and shape technical direction.
• Strong background in designing cloud native platforms at scale.
• Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams across England to deliver platform solutions at scale.
• Architect secure, cloud native platforms on AWS and Kubernetes.
• Drive adoption of IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling.

Skills

Leadership

Platform engineering

Cloud platforms

Mentoring

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Looking for a opportunity, where you can lead engineers and still get stuck into real engineering challenges? Well.. this is the role for you

You’ll be joining a global organisation, but within a close knit engineering unit of around 300 Platform Engineers across the UK, giving you the backing of a major player with the autonomy to actually shape how things are built.

You’ll be part of a Platform Engineering Centre of Excellence, helping deliver and evolve critical public sector services at national scale. This means designing secure, cloud native platforms across AWS, building out multi account landing zones, scaling Kubernetes environments that are the largest in Europe and modernising legacy systems into microservices architectures that are built to last and the much more

Not only that they genuinely invest in their people. There’s structured learning from day one, a dedicated career coach, access to a huge range of training resources, and full funding for certifications like CKA, CKAD and CKS, with clear support to keep progressing. They've even helped 260 out of the 300 platform engineers gain the CKA cert which is the most from anyone company so you're in good hands

They’re looking for Platform Engineers across England with experience in:

Cloud – AWS at scale

Kubernetes & container platforms in production (EKS)

Infrastructure as Code – Terraform

CI/CD & automation – GitHub Actions, Jenkins or similar

Observability & reliability – Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry

Platform thinking – internal developer platforms, self service tooling

Leadership – mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction

In return, you’ll work on meaningful systems, lead strong engineering teams, and shape how modern platforms are delivered at scale, all while continuing to grow your own skill set.

If you’re ready to take ownership, push modern engineering forward and make a real impact, this could be the role for you.