Platform Engineer – Cloud, Kubernetes & FinOps (Hybrid)

Netcompany; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

25 days' holiday

Private Medical Health care via Vitaly

Pension contribution

Life Assurance

Professional certifications support

Employee discounts

Job summary

Netcompany is a leading European technology partner delivering digital solutions across government and industry. The Senior Platform Engineer will lead the platform engineering team, owning the multi-year technical direction and cloud-native Infra as Code strategy.

You’ll drive Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD, security and FinOps in a fast-paced, customer-facing environment. Hybrid UK role with professional development supported by Netcompany Academy.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in DevOps, platform or SRE roles with leadership of engineering teams.
• Expert AWS knowledge across compute, networking, data, security and edge services for large-scale workloads.
• Hands-on Kubernetes production experience (preferably EKS) with service mesh, autoscaling and GitOps deployments.
• Infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform) and all-code approach.
• Proven ability to own reliable CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Argo CD) with automated gates.
• Strong observability, incident management, resilience and disaster recovery in 24/7 environments.
• Working knowledge of security/compliance, vulnerability management, and external providers; FinOps experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and develop the platform engineering team including on-call rota design.
• Own platform across environments; set multi-year technical direction and roadmaps.
• Design, build and operate AWS infrastructure as code; manage EKS, Istio, and GitOps deployments.
• Ensure CI/CD reliability with automated testing, quality gates and rollback capabilities.
• Drive platform availability, resilience and disaster recovery; manage incidents and backups.
• Oversee security, compliance and vulnerability management; manage external providers.
• Lead FinOps and cost optimisation; budget tracking and right-sizing actions.
• Act as technical senior point of contact for customers; collaborate on release planning and capacity forecasting.

Skills

DevOps leadership

AWS expertise

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform IaC

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

FinOps

Security & compliance

Effective communication

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Argo CD

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

OpenSearch

CloudWatch

Istio

Job description

Netcompany is a leading European technology partner delivering digital solutions across government and industry. The Senior Platform Engineer will lead the platform engineering team, owning the multi-year technical direction and cloud-native Infra as Code strategy.

You’ll drive Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD, security and FinOps in a fast-paced, customer-facing environment. Hybrid UK role with professional development supported by Netcompany Academy.