Lead Platform Engineer - Remote UK (Kubernetes & Cloud)

Moonnox, Inc.; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Certinia is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer for UK remote work to direct the platform's technical direction. You will oversee Kubernetes on AWS, a service mesh and the platform's runtime, identity, AI gateway, cost governance and audit layers, enabling safe AI workloads against Salesforce data.

You will influence Helm/Terraform practices, CI/CD pipelines, and tooling, while guiding application teams to ship features securely and efficiently.

Qualifications

• Deep experience with Go or a similar systems language.
• Designing, building and operating production platforms at scale.
• Deep experience with Kubernetes and cloud services (AWS preferred).
• Infrastructure-as-code at scale (Terraform).
• CI/CD at scale, release management and quality gates.
• Strong networking fundamentals: TCP/HTTP, DNS, TLS, mTLS, service identity.
• Experience coordinating and leading other engineers; strong communication.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical direction of the platform across sub-domains.
• Codify team standards and conventions.
• Lead improvements in architecture, performance, reliability and security.
• Diagnose platform issues from monitoring and user reports; resolve them.
• Coordinate work across engineers and teams for large initiatives.
• Mentor senior engineers and contribute to recruitment and development.
• Own incident-response and disaster-recovery processes.

Skills

Go

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Networking

Leadership

Learning

Platform thinking

Tools

Istio/Linkerd

Job description

Certinia is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer for UK remote work to direct the platform's technical direction. You will oversee Kubernetes on AWS, a service mesh and the platform's runtime, identity, AI gateway, cost governance and audit layers, enabling safe AI workloads against Salesforce data.

You will influence Helm/Terraform practices, CI/CD pipelines, and tooling, while guiding application teams to ship features securely and efficiently.