Lead Platform Engineer

Investigo; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech recruitment firm seeks a Lead Platform Engineer to design and expand a cutting-edge internal platform on AWS EKS. This role demands extensive Kubernetes knowledge and strong software engineering skills. You will lead a globally distributed team, enhance the developer experience, and drive architectural decisions within a collaborative environment. Ideal candidates will have proven leadership abilities and an agile mindset along with a commitment to operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Expert level knowledge of Kubernetes and related tooling.
• Strong software engineering foundation, particularly in cloud technologies.
• Familiarity with Extreme Programming practices, including pair programming.

Responsibilities

• Lead and evolve the internal developer platform, ensuring security and scalability.
• Own the roadmap embedding customer feedback and data-driven metrics.
• Drive technical architecture decisions for platform consistency.

Skills

Kubernetes expertise

Leadership in software engineering

Cloud technologies knowledge

Agile delivery mindset

Collaboration and team knowledge-sharing

Tools

AWS EKS

Python

Golang

Job description

Location: London – Hybrid working 3 days on site

We are looking for a Lead Platform Engineer to take a key role in designing, building, and expanding a cutting-edge internal platform on AWS EKS.

As the Lead Platform Engineer, you will have extensive Kubernetes expertise and a solid foundation in software engineering.

You thrive in leadership roles, or are a senior engineer looking to move into a leadership role. You will combine a collaborative and transparent management style with the technical acumen to lead decisions on architecture and strategy.

You will foster learning and development within teams and have the judgement to scale capabilities while maintaining operational excellence under growing platform complexity.

You will shape and extend their greenfield platform, leading a globally distributed engineering team to deliver secure, resilient, and highly scalable developer capabilities.

This role is a unique opportunity to influence the architectural direction and drive the vision behind a platform that underpins the entire organisation’s engineering ecosystem. You will collaborate with stakeholders across teams to streamline application delivery while maintaining compliance, security, and operational excellence.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Leading and evolving our internal developer platform, delivering automated, secure, and commercially viable self-service capabilities.
• Owning the roadmap, embedding customer feedback and data‑driven metrics (like DORA) to improve user experience and outcomes.
• Driving technical architecture decisions to ensure security, scalability, and resiliency consistency across the platform.
• Collaborating across engineering, product, and infrastructure teams to build awareness and optimise platform usage.
• Participating in technical deep dives and design reviews to maintain top‑tier engineering standards.
• Supporting and developing a strong global engineering team culture, encouraging ownership and continuous learning.
• Advocating for and influencing adoption of modern engineering practices, creating a culture of improvement through regular feedback.
• Embedding operational readiness and automating compliance through policy‑as‑code.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Expert level knowledge of Kubernetes and related tooling.
• Strong software engineering foundation, particularly in cloud technologies.
• Experience designing and reasoning about secure and scalable systems.
• Practical understanding of Continuous Delivery pipelines.
• Proven leadership in software engineering teams (globally distributed preferred).
• Product ownership experience and confident customer engagement.
• Familiarity with Extreme Programming practices, including pair programming.
• Agile delivery mindset with practical Kanban experience.
• Ability to solve issues across the stack using structured root cause analysis.
• Strong collaborative and transparent approach to team knowledge‑sharing.

Experience across these areas would be beneficial

• In-depth AWS EKS operation and management experience.
• Hands‑on involvement in building or managing an Internal Developer Platform.
• Visible contributions to the cloud native community (open source, speaking engagements).
• Solid experience with Python and Golang pull requests, paired with strong object‑oriented programming skills.
• Leadership of globally distributed engineering teams.

If you are interested and looking or your next role, please apply with a copy of your CV or email: [e-mail]