Platform Engineering Lead: AWS, Kubernetes & Security

Falconsmartit; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Falconsmartit is seeking a Platform Engineering Lead/Platform Architect in London to own and guide a Kubernetes-based banking platform hosted on AWS. You will lead a small engineering team through go-live and into steady operations, ensuring reliability, security and engineering standards across the platform.

The role focuses on production readiness, vendor governance, and architecture decisions, with a hybrid onsite work pattern and close collaboration with security and delivery partners.

Qualifications

• Hands-on AWS, Kubernetes at scale with team or tech-lead experience.
• Strong PKI, mTLS, OAuth2/OIDC, and network security knowledge.
• Experience running production platforms including DR and incident management.
• Ability to document decisions and present to governance boards.
• CI/CD and controls in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a small platform team; prioritize, review designs, hire and onboard.
• Take the platform live: production readiness, DR testing, vulnerability remediation.
• Operate the AWS/EKS/Terraform based platform with GitOps, observability and incident ownership.
• Manage vendor connectivity, certificate lifecycle and identity management.
• Make architecture decisions and defend ADRs at governance boards.
• Define CI/CD standards with central engineering and release gates.
• Plan and report progress, manage backlog and cost estimates.

Skills

AWS Kubernetes

Terraform

PKI & mTLS

CI/CD

Security governance

Communication

AI-assisted engineering

Job description

Falconsmartit is seeking a Platform Engineering Lead/Platform Architect in London to own and guide a Kubernetes-based banking platform hosted on AWS. You will lead a small engineering team through go-live and into steady operations, ensuring reliability, security and engineering standards across the platform.

The role focuses on production readiness, vendor governance, and architecture decisions, with a hybrid onsite work pattern and close collaboration with security and delivery partners.