Platform Engineering Lead: Cloud, Security & CI/CD Champion

Intuition IT Solutions Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuition IT Solutions Ltd in the United Kingdom seeks a hands-on Platform Engineering Lead to mentor a small team of engineers, own production readiness and incident ownership, and guide architectural decisions.

You will run platforms on AWS with EKS, Terraform and GitOps, set CI/CD standards, manage vendor connections, and communicate across security, architecture and delivery teams.

Qualifications

• Hands-on AWS, Kubernetes/GitOps and Terraform at scale, with team or technical-lead experience.
• Solid grounding in PKI, mTLS, OAuth2/OIDC, and network and edge security.
• Experience running production platforms, including DR and incident management.
• Experience writing architecture decisions and presenting them to governance boards.
• CI/CD expertise and a pragmatic approach to controls in a regulated setting.
• Clear communicator across security, architecture and vendor stakeholders.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a small team of platform engineers; set priorities, review designs and PRs, hire and onboard.
• Take the platform live: own production readiness, DR testing, pen-test and vulnerability remediation.
• Run the platform: AWS, EKS, Terraform, GitOps, policy enforcement, messaging and observability, with runbooks and incident ownership.
• Own vendor connectivity and security: private and mTLS integrations, certificate life cycle and identity, working with vendor technical teams.
• Own architecture decisions: write and defend ADRs at architecture review boards.
• Set CI/CD and promotion standards: audited pipelines and release gates, agreed with central engineering.
• Plan and report: Jira backlog, status reporting, cost estimates; raise risks early.
• Support delivery partners onboarding new services onto the platform.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

GitOps

Terraform

Team leadership

Architecture decisions

CI/CD

Security communication

AI-assisted engineering

Tools

Observability tooling

Message broker

Job description

Intuition IT Solutions Ltd in the United Kingdom seeks a hands-on Platform Engineering Lead to mentor a small team of engineers, own production readiness and incident ownership, and guide architectural decisions.

You will run platforms on AWS with EKS, Terraform and GitOps, set CI/CD standards, manage vendor connections, and communicate across security, architecture and delivery teams.