Lead Platform Engineer - K8s, AWS & CI/CD (Hybrid)

Trust in SODA; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Certification Scheme (AWS, CKA, Hashi)

Uncapped Progressions

10% combined pension

Travel expenses to client site

Hybrid Working

Job summary

Trust in SODA is seeking a Managing & Lead Platform Engineer for a major UK government digital transformation project. You will lead the platform engineering function, shaping DevOps strategy and driving delivery across a multi-year program.

Expect to own IaC (Terraform, Ansible), CI/CD (GitOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and Observability (OTel, Dynatrace, Grafana), while providing leadership to teams and guiding change across the stack. Hybrid working and client travel are offered.

Qualifications

• Experience leading platform engineering teams
• Strong IaC experience with Terraform and Ansible
• Hands-on CI/CD delivery using GitOps, GitHub Actions and Jenkins
• Proven leadership and people-management capabilities

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the platform engineering function on a multi-year DevOps transformation for a UK government project
• Drive IaC adoption and automation across environments
• Oversee CI/CD pipelines, GitOps practices and toolchains (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
• Enhance observability and incident response using OTel, Dynatrace and Grafana

Skills

IaC (Terraform/Ansible)

CI/CD (GitOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins

Observability (OTel, Dynatrace, Grafna

Leadership / Line Management

Job description

Trust in SODA is seeking a Managing & Lead Platform Engineer for a major UK government digital transformation project. You will lead the platform engineering function, shaping DevOps strategy and driving delivery across a multi-year program.

Expect to own IaC (Terraform, Ansible), CI/CD (GitOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and Observability (OTel, Dynatrace, Grafana), while providing leadership to teams and guiding change across the stack. Hybrid working and client travel are offered.