Platform Engineering Lead – Cloud, Kubernetes & CI/CD

Netcompany; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

25 days holiday

Private Medical Health care via Vitaly

Pension contribution

Life Assurance

Professional certifications supported

Retail discounts

Employee Resource Groups

Job summary

Netcompany is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to own the technical direction and reliability of a major UK cloud platform. You will lead the platform engineering team, drive architecture, and ensure scalable, secure operations across all environments.

You’ll oversee AWS infrastructure as code (Terraform), container platforms (EKS, Istio), CI/CD pipelines, and incident response, while guiding FinOps, security, and capacity planning. Hybrid work and professional development are offered.

Qualifications

• Deep experience leading platform or DevOps teams delivering reliable cloud platforms.
• Hands-on AWS infrastructure as code using Terraform across networking, compute, data and security.
• Experience with modern container platforms (EKS, Karpenter, Istio) and GitOps deployments.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and develop the platform engineering team, covering resourcing, recruitment, performance management and on-call rota design.
• Own the platform across environments, setting multi-year technical direction and roadmap including upgrades.
• Design, build and operate AWS infrastructure as code using Terraform and run container platforms like EKS, Karpenter, Istio and GitOps-based deployment.

Skills

Platform leadership

AWS Terraform

Kubernetes (EKS)

GitOps

CI/CD automation

Security & compliance

FinOps

Incident management

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Amazon EKS

Karpenter

Istio

GitOps tooling

Azure DevOps

Argo CD

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

OpenSearch

CloudWatch

Job description

Netcompany is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to own the technical direction and reliability of a major UK cloud platform. You will lead the platform engineering team, drive architecture, and ensure scalable, secure operations across all environments.

You’ll oversee AWS infrastructure as code (Terraform), container platforms (EKS, Istio), CI/CD pipelines, and incident response, while guiding FinOps, security, and capacity planning. Hybrid work and professional development are offered.