Platform Engineering Lead - AWS/Kubernetes (London)

Vbeyond; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Vbeyond is seeking a Platform Engineering Lead / Platform Architect to drive go-live, production readiness, and ongoing operation of a modern banking platform on AWS and Kubernetes. You will lead a small engineering team, establish standards, and collaborate with security and vendor partners.

The role combines hands-on platform engineering, architecture governance, and production operations. You will own DR testing, incident response, and secure connectivity while shaping ADRs and CI/CD

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and Amazon EKS in production environments.
• Expertise in Terraform, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), GitOps, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proven experience as Platform Engineering Lead, Platform Architect, or senior platform engineer.
• Knowledge of PKI, mTLS, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, certificate management, and identity integration.
• Experience managing production platforms including production readiness, DR, incident management, and remediation.
• Experience preparing Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and presenting to governance boards.
• Experience implementing auditable pipelines, security controls, and release gates in regulated environments.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication with security teams, architects, vendors, and partners.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted coding and developer productivity tools.
• Willingness to work onsite in London four days per week.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a Platform Engineering team, prioritize work, review designs and PRs, recruit and onboard.
• Own platform go-live and production readiness, including disaster recovery testing and remediation.
• Manage and improve AWS, EKS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitOps environments.
• Establish reliability practices, runbooks, incident response, and continuous improvement standards.
• Define secure vendor connectivity, including private integrations, mTLS, PKI, and identity controls.
• Document Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and present to boards.
• Define auditable CI/CD pipelines, deployment gates, and promotion standards.
• Manage backlogs, reporting, cost estimates, and risk with Jira.
• Support onboarding of new services while ensuring architecture and security standards.

Skills

Platform leadership

Cloud architecture

Security & risk management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Recruiting & onboarding

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Amazon EKS

Terraform

IaC

GitOps

CI/CD

Jira

Job description

Vbeyond is seeking a Platform Engineering Lead / Platform Architect to drive go-live, production readiness, and ongoing operation of a modern banking platform on AWS and Kubernetes. You will lead a small engineering team, establish standards, and collaborate with security and vendor partners.

The role combines hands-on platform engineering, architecture governance, and production operations. You will own DR testing, incident response, and secure connectivity while shaping ADRs and CI/CD