Lead Platform Engineer - AWS/Kubernetes & FinOps

Netcompany Group A/S; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Private medical health care

Pension & life assurance

Certifications supported

Employee discounts

ERGs

Job summary

Netcompany is a major European tech partner with offices in the UK, delivering cloud platforms for government and business clients. We seek a Senior Platform Engineer to own the technical direction, roadmap and reliability of a large AWS platform.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with delivery teams, and drive secure, scalable operations. You will design, build, and operate AWS infrastructure as code using Terraform, run modern container platforms (EKS, Istio, Karpenter), and lead CI/CD

Qualifications

• Lead platform/DevOps teams with a proven delivery record of reliable cloud platforms.
• Deep expertise in AWS infrastructure as code using Terraform across networking, compute, data, security.
• Experience running container platforms (EKS, Istio) and GitOps deployments.
• Own CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Argo CD) with automated testing and quality gates.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, and on-call design experience.
• Experience with external SOC providers and FinOps/cost optimisation initiatives.
• Hold AWS certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect/SysOps/DevOps as a minimum.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and develop the platform engineering team, covering resourcing and on-call rota design.
• Own the platform across environments, setting multi-year technical direction and roadmap.
• Design, build and operate AWS infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Run container platforms including EKS, Karpenter, Istio and GitOps deployment.
• Ensure CI/CD pipelines are fast, secure and REV-ready with testing and rollback.
• Drive platform availability, resilience, DR, backups and incident response.
• Manage security, vulnerability management and access control with SOC providers.

Skills

Leadership

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Security

FinOps

Observability

Cost optimisation

Stakeholder mgmt

Tools

Amazon EKS

Istio

GitOps

Argo CD

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

OpenSearch

CloudWatch

Karpenter

Job description

Netcompany is a major European tech partner with offices in the UK, delivering cloud platforms for government and business clients. We seek a Senior Platform Engineer to own the technical direction, roadmap and reliability of a large AWS platform.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with delivery teams, and drive secure, scalable operations. You will design, build, and operate AWS infrastructure as code using Terraform, run modern container platforms (EKS, Istio, Karpenter), and lead CI/CD