Lead Platform Engineer - Internal DevEx, Hybrid

SR2 | Socially Responsible Recruitment | Certified B Corporation™; England; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working (2 days in office)

25 days’ annual leave plus birthday

Pension contribution

Life assurance

Private medical cover

Travel paid if 60 miles from office

Job summary

SR2 | Socially Responsible Recruitment | Certified B Corporation™ is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to take ownership of its internal platform product and lead the team building it. The role focuses on creating a reliable, usable platform product and reducing day-to-day toil for engineers.

You’ll lead a four-engineer platform team (with plans to hire another) with delivery focus and path to management, shaping the platform for growth and ensuring alignment with security and regulatory

Qualifications

• Led or built cloud platforms, internal developer platforms or DevEx tooling.
• Thinks in terms of products, not just projects or infrastructure.
• An up-and-coming people leader who enjoys building teams and holding them accountable for outcomes.
• Delivery-focused, pragmatic and comfortable making decisions.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD and modern engineering practices.
• Experience in regulated environments is a plus, but mindset and approach matter most.

Responsibilities

• Owning the Cloud Platform and Developer Experience as an internal product, with a clear roadmap focused on reliability, reuse and developer productivity.
• Leading a platform team delivering reusable CI/CD pipelines, shared infrastructure patterns and automation that engineers can rely on.
• Taking on the "nitty gritty" infrastructure and platform concerns so product teams don’t have to.
• Improving platform reliability and consistency so engineers can move faster with confidence.
• Acting as a strong people leader — coaching, supporting and growing a small but high-impact team.
• Identifying friction points in the developer journey and turning them into solved problems.
• Driving delivery end-to-end, from problem definition through to implementation and adoption.
• Partnering closely with engineering leadership and stakeholders to ensure the platform enables business growth.
• Ensuring platform services meet security, operational and regulatory requirements.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Delivery leadership

People leadership

Developer experience

CI/CD tooling

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

SR2 | Socially Responsible Recruitment | Certified B Corporation™ is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to take ownership of its internal platform product and lead the team building it. The role focuses on creating a reliable, usable platform product and reducing day-to-day toil for engineers.

You’ll lead a four-engineer platform team (with plans to hire another) with delivery focus and path to management, shaping the platform for growth and ensuring alignment with security and regulatory