Lead Platform Engineer: Build Large-Scale Cloud Platforms

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

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.