Platform Engineering Lead – Internal Developer Platform

United States Digital Space LLC; Luton; Hybrid; GBP 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus potential 30%

Holiday, pension and life assurance

Staff travel discount

Annual discount credits

Work Away 30 days abroad

EV salary sacrifice

Job summary

easyJet in the United Kingdom is seeking a Head of Platform Engineering to own the strategy, delivery and operation of our internal developer platform across the digital and operational estate.

You will lead 4–5 teams of Platform, DevOps and Developer Enablement, set the roadmap with Enterprise Architecture, and drive cost-aware, scalable platform decisions, while staying close to engineering practice.

Qualifications

• You live and breathe modern platform engineering and DevOps culture.

Responsibilities

• Lead 4–5 Platform, DevOps and Developer Enablement teams through their managers, developing leaders and hiring top talent.

Skills

Platform engineering

Cloud-native

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

IaC

Observability

Java

Python

Executive communication

Tools

Backstage

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Octopus

FinOps

Job description

easyJet in the United Kingdom is seeking a Head of Platform Engineering to own the strategy, delivery and operation of our internal developer platform across the digital and operational estate.

You will lead 4–5 teams of Platform, DevOps and Developer Enablement, set the roadmap with Enterprise Architecture, and drive cost-aware, scalable platform decisions, while staying close to engineering practice.