Platform Engineering Lead — AWS & Kubernetes FinTech

Harrington Starr; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Harrington Starr in City of London seeks a Principal Platform Engineer to shape the fintech platform with hands-on leadership. You’ll own platform architecture, drive cloud and Kubernetes hardening, and implement GitOps for deployment automation.

Join a well-funded UK fintech and help ensure security, resilience and production readiness while mentoring engineers and establishing engineering standards. This is a hybrid role with two days in the office.

Qualifications

• Hands-on platform engineering leadership is required.
• Strong experience with AWS cloud and Kubernetes production environments.
• Experience shaping platform architecture, security and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Platform architecture and technical direction.
• Kubernetes and cloud hardening.
• GitOps and deployment automation.
• Security, resilience and disaster recovery.
• Observability and production readiness.
• Repeatable customer environment provisioning.
• Mentoring engineers and establishing engineering standards.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

EKS

Terraform

GitOps

Argo CD

GitHub Actions

Helm

Grafana

VictoriaMetrics

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

EKS

Terraform

Argo CD

GitHub Actions

Helm

Grafana

VictoriaMetrics

Job description

Harrington Starr in City of London seeks a Principal Platform Engineer to shape the fintech platform with hands-on leadership. You’ll own platform architecture, drive cloud and Kubernetes hardening, and implement GitOps for deployment automation.

Join a well-funded UK fintech and help ensure security, resilience and production readiness while mentoring engineers and establishing engineering standards. This is a hybrid role with two days in the office.