Lead Platform Engineer — AI-Driven Cloud Transformation

Kyndryl Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Be Well program

Hybrid-friendly culture

Job summary

Kyndryl is seeking a Forward Deployed Lead / Principal Engineer (FDE) with a Platform Engineering focus in the UK. You will own architectural direction for major digital transformation programmes, aligning target-state cloud architectures with business goals while hands-on guiding the team on Azure, GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, and GenAI platforms.

You will build and govern IaC, automate delivery, and act as the technical reference on complex engagements, partnering with AI engineers and senior

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years in enterprise or platform architecture with client-facing delivery.
• Deep, hands-on cloud experience across Azure, GCP and AWS.
• Strong Kubernetes, GitOps and IaC experience with Terraform and Helm.
• End-to-end security integration in CI/CD and security tooling.
• Experience with LLM hosting, gateways and MLOps for AI deployments.

Responsibilities

• Design and build target-state cloud platforms across Azure, GCP, AWS.
• Establish enterprise Kubernetes platforms and GitOps delivery.
• Build self-service developer frameworks and landing zones.
• Architect platforms hosting generative AI systems and LLM gateways.
• Guide modernisation, microservices migrations and API integrations.
• Ensure security end-to-end within CI/CD pipelines and landing zones.
• Define architectural standards with policy-as-code and guardrails.
• Provide observability instrumentation and stakeholder roadmaps.

Skills

Azure

GCP

AWS

Kubernetes

GitOps (ArgoCD)

Terraform

Helm

CI/CD Security

Observability (Grafana/OpenTelemetry)

LLM hosting / Gen AI

Stakeholder communication

Education

Degree in Computer Science / IT / Software Engineering

Tools

ArgoCD

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Kyndryl is seeking a Forward Deployed Lead / Principal Engineer (FDE) with a Platform Engineering focus in the UK. You will own architectural direction for major digital transformation programmes, aligning target-state cloud architectures with business goals while hands-on guiding the team on Azure, GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, and GenAI platforms.

You will build and govern IaC, automate delivery, and act as the technical reference on complex engagements, partnering with AI engineers and senior