Platform Engineering Lead/Platform Architect

Infinity Quest Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Infinity Quest Limited seeks a seasoned security-focused architect to lead the design and operation of scalable cloud platforms. You will influence governance, build secure CI/CD pipelines, and drive incident response and DR preparedness across production environments.

You will communicate across security, architecture and vendor teams, and apply controls suitable for regulated contexts while leveraging AI-assisted engineering to improve reliability.

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

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

GitOps

Terraform

Team lead

PKI

mTLS

OAuth/OIDC

Network security

Edge security

Disaster recovery

Incident mgmt

Architecture decisions

Governance

CI/CD

Regulated controls

Communication

AI-assisted

Payments experience

Message brokers

Observability

Job description

• - 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.