Platform Engineering Lead: Cloud & K8s for Gov IT

Trust In SODA; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

AWS Certification

CKA Certification

Hashicorp Certification

Pension 10%

Travel to client site

Hybrid working

Job summary

Trust In SODA in London is seeking a Managing & Lead Platform Engineer to drive a major DevOps transformation for a UK government project, scaling a Kubernetes estate with 400+ pods and 140k nodes. You'll specialise in IaC (Terraform, Ansible), CI/CD (GitOps, Github Actions, Jenkins) and Observability (OTel, Dynatrace, Grafana), and provide leadership and line-management across the team.

Perks include AWS/CKA/HashiCorp certifications, a 10% pension, travel expenses to client sites and hybrid

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a platform engineer leading DevOps transformations.
• Strong skills in IaC, CI/CD, and observability tooling.
• Experience in managing teams and stakeholder communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead platform engineering, design and implement scalable infra.
• Oversee CI/CD pipelines and production reliability.
• Mentor team members and drive performance reviews.

Skills

IaC (Terraform, Ansible)

CI/CD (GitOps, Github Actions, Jenkins

Observability (OTel, Dynatrace, Graf2

Leadership / Line Management

Job description

Trust In SODA in London is seeking a Managing & Lead Platform Engineer to drive a major DevOps transformation for a UK government project, scaling a Kubernetes estate with 400+ pods and 140k nodes. You'll specialise in IaC (Terraform, Ansible), CI/CD (GitOps, Github Actions, Jenkins) and Observability (OTel, Dynatrace, Grafana), and provide leadership and line-management across the team.

Perks include AWS/CKA/HashiCorp certifications, a 10% pension, travel expenses to client sites and hybrid