Lead Platform Engineer (Hybrid) – AWS, Kubernetes & FinOps

Netcompany; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model with flexible安排

Private medical health care via Vitali

Pension contribution

Life Assurance

Professional certifications supported

Employee discounts

Employee Resource Groups

Job summary

Netcompany is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the platform engineering function for a major UK client. You will own the technical direction, delivery and reliability of a large-scale AWS platform, shaping multi-year roadmaps and mentoring engineers across London, Leeds and Birmingham.

You will oversee designing, building and operating AWS infrastructure as code with Terraform, container platforms like EKS, Karpenter and Istio, and Kubernetes upgrades.

Qualifications

• Lead platform or DevOps engineering teams to deliver reliable cloud platforms.
• Experience with AWS IaC using Terraform across networking, compute, data, security and edge services.
• Experience running modern container platforms (EKS, Karpenter, Istio) and GitOps deployments.
• Strong leadership in mentoring engineers, managing performance and on-call rotas.
• Experience with SOC providers and leading FinOps and cost optimisation.
• AWS certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer or SysOps Administrator.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the platform engineering team, covering resourcing, recruitment, performance management and on-call rota design.
• Own the platform across environments, setting multi-year technical direction and roadmap, including Kubernetes upgrades and architectural improvements.
• Design, build and operate AWS infrastructure as code using Terraform, and run container platforms including EKS, Karpenter, Istio and GitOps deployments.
• Own the reliability and performance of CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Argo CD), with automated testing and quality gates.
• Drive platform availability, resilience and disaster recovery, including backup/restore testing and incident response leadership with observability tools.
• Lead security/compliance with vulnerability management, patching, access control and secrets management.
• Lead FinOps and cost optimisation including budgeting, tagging and right-sizing.
• Present designs, risks, incidents, cost and roadmap to the customer, coordinating release planning with product/delivery/architecture teams.

Skills

Platform leadership

AWS infrastructure

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps

Security & compliance

FinOps

Team mentoring

Incident response

Tools

Azure DevOps

Argo CD

Karpenter

Istio

GitOps

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

OpenSearch

CloudWatch

Job description

Netcompany is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the platform engineering function for a major UK client. You will own the technical direction, delivery and reliability of a large-scale AWS platform, shaping multi-year roadmaps and mentoring engineers across London, Leeds and Birmingham.

You will oversee designing, building and operating AWS infrastructure as code with Terraform, container platforms like EKS, Karpenter and Istio, and Kubernetes upgrades.