Lead Platform Engineer – Cloud, AWS & DevOps (Hybrid)

Searchability; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Travel expenses covered

Training & certifications

Job summary

Searchability in London is seeking Senior Platform Engineer to design, build and shape cloud platforms for critical UK government projects. You will join a leading tech consultancy delivering secure, scalable services across public sector environments.

You’ll mentor engineers, drive platform engineering best practices, optimize CI/CD, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver robust, compliant solutions that meet security standards.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps or Cloud Engineering
• Hands‑on AWS and Terraform experience
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, Linux, Git and CI/CD
• Experience troubleshooting complex production environments
• For senior and lead positions, experience mentoring engineers or providing technical direction

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain cloud infrastructure, particularly across AWS
• Automate infrastructure using Terraform and configuration management tools
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes
• Support reliable, highly available production environments
• Work with Kubernetes, Linux and modern DevOps tooling
• Share knowledge, mentor engineers and provide technical leadership where appropriate

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

Cloud engineering

AWS

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

Linux

Job description

Searchability in London is seeking Senior Platform Engineer to design, build and shape cloud platforms for critical UK government projects. You will join a leading tech consultancy delivering secure, scalable services across public sector environments.

You’ll mentor engineers, drive platform engineering best practices, optimize CI/CD, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver robust, compliant solutions that meet security standards.