Platform Engineering Lead

TieTalent; Bromley; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech consultancy is looking for a Platform Engineering Lead to oversee enterprise-grade platform solutions in Bromley, UK. The role demands 20+ years of experience in applications focusing on performance, scalability, and security. Strong Java, cloud-native, and leadership skills are essential. This is a full-time position emphasizing continuous integration in a progressive environment.

Qualifications

• 20+ years of experience in building and maintaining applications with a focus on performance, scalability, security, and reliability.
• 7+ years of experience overseeing enterprise-grade platform solutions.
• Strong experience in cloud-native deployment using OpenShift, Kubernetes or similar.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering team and provide leadership for implementation of best practices.
• Optimize performance and ensure compliance with security standards.
• Utilize infrastructure automation and DevOps practices to build solutions.

Skills

Java/J2EE

Spring Boot

Mule

Web Services

Kafka

SQL & PL/SQL

XML

JSON

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Splunk

Dynatrace

AppDynamics

DevOps

Job description

Overview

Platform Engineering Lead

Location: Bromley, UK

Below are the details of the position:

Job Description

Required Skills:

• 20+ years’ experience in building and maintaining applications with focus on performance, scalability, security, and reliability.
• 7+ years’ experience overseeing enterprise-grade platform solutions
• Experience in a highly Agile continuous integration and continuous deployment environment, preferably within a financial domain.
• Strong experience in Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Mule, web Services, Kafka, SQL & PL/SQL (Oracle)
• Strong knowledge of XML, JSON and its usage within API and Microservice implementations at scale.
• Significant expertise in cloud-native deployment using OpenShift, Kubernetes or any one the container platform.
• Experience maintaining on-premises environments, containerized applications and hybrid cloud solutions.
• Experience using leading app servers and integration technologies like Mule ESB, Anypoint Platform, MQ, Kafka.
• Experience in Splunk, Dynatrace or AppDynamics (APM tools).
• Proven ability to leverage knowledge of infrastructure automation, DevOps, cloud technologies and platform architecture to build resilient, scalable and maintainable solutions.
• Experience implementing best practices, optimizing performance, ensuring compliance with security standards, and providing leadership to the engineering team.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to delve in low level details with a technical audience and explain concepts at a high level to a non-technical audience.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• Technology, Information and Internet