Lead Platform Engineer - Cloud-Native Infra & Scale

SF Technology Partners; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

SF Technology Partners is recruiting for a senior platform engineer to help build, operate and improve multi-account AWS platforms, Kubernetes/EKS, and internal developer tooling for critical national services in a hybrid UK setting.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, platform ownership and mentoring, with the opportunity to influence standards and technical direction across large-scale programmes.

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS and Kubernetes/EKS in production environments.
• Hands-on IaC with Terraform/Terragrunt/OpenTofu and CI/CD tooling.
• Ability to explain technical decisions, trade-offs and production performance.

Responsibilities

• You will build, operate and improve platforms used by national services.
• Mentor engineers and influence technical direction beyond your team.
• Contribute to security, reliability and engineering standards.

Skills

Production engineering

Platform ownership

Mentoring engineers

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes / EKS

Terraform

Terragrunt / OpenTofu

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

SF Technology Partners is recruiting for a senior platform engineer to help build, operate and improve multi-account AWS platforms, Kubernetes/EKS, and internal developer tooling for critical national services in a hybrid UK setting.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, platform ownership and mentoring, with the opportunity to influence standards and technical direction across large-scale programmes.