Platform Engineering Lead for AI Startup (Hybrid London)

Devopsroles; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Devopsroles in Central London (Hybrid) seeks a Lead Platform Engineer to own the secure, multi-tenant infrastructure end-to-end, from GitOps to compliance controls, in a hands-on, fast-paced role shaping one of the most ambitious applications of AI today.

The opportunity is to join seed-funded growth with a small team and take end-to-end ownership of deployment, security, and scale across platforms and customer environments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure.
• Own production systems, including multi-tenant or customer-specific environments.
• Fluency with Kubernetes, a major cloud (AWS), GitOps, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Hands-on and not purely architectural; able to justify tradeoffs simply.

Responsibilities

• The GitOps deployment backbone on Argo CD across many clusters.
• Kubernetes on AWS (EKS) across production environments.
• Infrastructure-as-code with Terraform/OpenTofu and Terragrunt.
• Multi-tenant isolation: fully isolated environments per customer.
• Security and compliance posture: secrets management and audit controls.
• Observability: telemetry, metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, alerts.
• Reliability, incident response, and runbooks.
• CI/CD and release automation.
• Developer experience: fast and painless deploys and debugging.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

GitOps

Terraform

Argo CD

Terragrunt

Observability

Security

Multi-tenant

CI/CD

Job description

Devopsroles in Central London (Hybrid) seeks a Lead Platform Engineer to own the secure, multi-tenant infrastructure end-to-end, from GitOps to compliance controls, in a hands-on, fast-paced role shaping one of the most ambitious applications of AI today.

The opportunity is to join seed-funded growth with a small team and take end-to-end ownership of deployment, security, and scale across platforms and customer environments.