Platform Engineering Manager: Kubernetes & Cloud Leader

Trust in SODA; Worthing; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Certification Scheme (AWS, CKA, Hashi"

Private Medical/Dental

Hybrid Working

Travel to client sites

Flexi Benefits

Job summary

Trust in SODA, in partnership with a leading tech consultancy, seeks a Managing & Lead Platform Engineer for a major UK Govt project. You will lead scale, optimisation and support of a Kubernetes-based platform operating across multiple regions with hundreds of pods and thousands of nodes.

The role emphasizes multi-cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), IaC (Terraform/Ansible), CI/CD (GitOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and strong leadership. Hybrid working available with travel to client sites.

Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale Kubernetes environments.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Proficient in IaC (Terraform, Ansible).
• Strong CI/CD experience (GitOps, Github Actions, Jenkins).
• Observability tooling experience (OTel, Dynatrace, Grafana).
• Strong Linux administration (RedHat, Ubuntu, Debian).
• Leadership / line management experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a platform engineering team on a multi-year DevOps transformation.
• Scale and optimise Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure for government project.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to improve CX and reduce costs.

Skills

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

GitOps

CI/CD

Observability

Linux

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Kops

Istio

Dynatrace

Grafana

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

Trust in SODA, in partnership with a leading tech consultancy, seeks a Managing & Lead Platform Engineer for a major UK Govt project. You will lead scale, optimisation and support of a Kubernetes-based platform operating across multiple regions with hundreds of pods and thousands of nodes.

The role emphasizes multi-cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), IaC (Terraform/Ansible), CI/CD (GitOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and strong leadership. Hybrid working available with travel to client sites.