Senior Cloud Platform Lead – AWS, Kubernetes & CI/CD

Remote Genie; Greater London, Leeds, Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

25 days holiday

Private Medical Health care via Vitaly

Pension contribution

Professional certifications supported

Employee discounts

Job summary

Netcompany in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Platform Engineering Lead to own the technical direction, delivery and reliability of a major AWS-based cloud platform. You will shape a multi-year roadmap, mentor a team of engineers and act as the senior technical point of contact for the client.

You will design, build and operate AWS infrastructure as code with Terraform, run containers on EKS, manage CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps and Argo CD, and drive reliability, security and FinOps.

Qualifications

• Experience leading platform or DevOps engineering teams delivering reliable, secure cloud platforms.
• AWS infrastructure as code using Terraform across networking, compute, data, security and edge services.
• Experience running modern container platforms (EKS, Karpenter, Istio) and GitOps-based deployment.
• Ability to own CI/CD reliability and performance (Azure DevOps, Argo CD) with automated testing and rollback.
• Strong leadership including mentoring engineers and managing on-call rotas.
• Experience with external SOC providers and FinOps/cost-optimisation initiatives.
• AWS certifications required: AWS Solutions Architect Associate, DevOps Engineer Professional, or SysOps Administrator Associate.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the platform engineering team, handle resourcing and on-call rota design.
• Own the platform across environments, set long-term technical direction and roadmap.
• Design, build and operate AWS infrastructure as code with Terraform; run AWS services and container platforms.
• Ensure CI/CD pipelines are fast, secure and compliant with quality gates.
• Drive platform availability, resilience, disaster recovery and incident leadership.
• Oversee security, vulnerability management and access control; manage cost optimisation initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud engineering

AWS IaC

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD

FinOps

Mentoring

Tools

Azure DevOps

Argo CD

Karpenter

Istio

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenSearch

CloudWatch

Job description

Netcompany in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Platform Engineering Lead to own the technical direction, delivery and reliability of a major AWS-based cloud platform. You will shape a multi-year roadmap, mentor a team of engineers and act as the senior technical point of contact for the client.

You will design, build and operate AWS infrastructure as code with Terraform, run containers on EKS, manage CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps and Argo CD, and drive reliability, security and FinOps.