Platform Engineering Lead/Platform Architect

VBeyond Europe; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

VBeyond Europe is seeking a Platform Engineering Lead/Platform Architect in London to lead a small team and own production readiness across AWS and Kubernetes. You will drive architecture decisions, ADR governance, and secure vendor integrations while setting CI/CD standards and runbooks for a scalable, compliant platform.

The role demands hands-on experience with AWS, EKS, Terraform, GitOps, and a strong focus on PKI, mTLS, OAuth2/OIDC, and observability.

Qualifications

• Lead a small platform engineering team with design reviews, PRs and onboarding.
• Own production readiness, DR testing, pen-testing and remediation.
• Run the platform using AWS, EKS, Terraform, GitOps and observability tools.
• Manage vendor connectivity, security, certificates and identity.
• Write and defend ADRs at governance boards.
• Set CI/CD standards and release gates with central engineering.
• Plan with Jira backlog, report status and raise risks early.
• Support onboarding of new services onto the platform.
• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes at scale and runbooks.
• Strong grounding in PKI, mTLS, OAuth2/OIDC and edge security.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a small platform engineering team.
• Take the platform live with production readiness and security ownership.
• Operate platform stack: AWS, EKS, Terraform, GitOps, observability.
• Manage vendor connectivity, security and certificate lifecycle.
• Draft and defend architecture decisions at governance boards.
• Define CI/CD standards and release gates.
• Report progress, costs and risks; support delivery partners.
• Hands-on work across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform at scale.
• Ensure incident management and DR processes are in place.
• Communicate across security, architecture and vendor stakeholders.

Skills

Team leadership

Production readiness

Incident management

Architecture decisions

ADR governance

Vendor security coordination

Communication

Cost estimation

Governance participation

Security awareness

AI-assisted engineering

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps

Observability tooling

CI/CD tooling

PKI / mTLS

OAuth2/OIDC

Message brokers

Job description

Platform Engineering Lead/Platform Architect

Location– London, UK,

Type-FTE

What you will do

• - **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 lifecycle 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.
• - 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.
• - Financial services or payments experience.
• - Message-broker and observability tooling experience.