Senior Platform DevOps Lead - AWS, Kubernetes & CI/CD

Netcompany; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Private Medical Health care via Vital

Pension contribution

Life Assurance

Professional certifications supported

Employee discounts

Job summary

Netcompany is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the platform engineering function for a major UK client. You will own the technical direction, delivery and reliability of a cloud platform, shape multi-year roadmaps and mentor a team of engineers.

You will design and operate a large-scale AWS platform, collaborating with the customer and delivery teams to ensure secure, scalable services. You will drive CI/CD improvements using Azure DevOps, Argo CD and GitOps, manage incident response,

Qualifications

• Experience leading platform or DevOps engineering teams.
• Proven ability building secure, scalable AWS cloud platforms.
• Experience with Terraform, EKS, Istio and GitOps deployments.
• Strong leadership, mentoring and on-call planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and develop the platform engineering team, covering resourcing, recruitment, performance management and on-call rota design.
• Own the platform across all environments, setting the multi-year technical direction and roadmap, including Kubernetes and service mesh upgrades, lifecycle management and architectural improvements.
• Design, build and operate AWS infrastructure as code using Terraform, and run modern container platforms including Amazon EKS, Karpenter, Istio and GitOps-based deployment.
• Own the reliability and performance of CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Argo CD), ensuring fast, secure, repeatable releases with automated testing, quality gates and rollback.
• Drive platform availability, resilience and disaster recovery, including backup and restore testing, failover and incident response leadership, supported by observability and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, OpenSearch, CloudWatch).
• Manage external SOC providers and be accountable for technical security and compliance, including vulnerability management, patching, penetration test remediation, access control and secrets management.
• Lead FinOps and cost optimisation, covering budgets, tagging, reporting, right-sizing, non-production scheduling and commitment-based savings.
• Act as the senior technical point of contact for the customer, presenting designs, risks, incidents, cost and roadmap, while working with product, delivery and architecture teams on release planning and capacity forecasting.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Leadership

CI/CD

Tools

Argo CD

Azure DevOps

Karpenter

Istio

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Netcompany is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the platform engineering function for a major UK client. You will own the technical direction, delivery and reliability of a cloud platform, shape multi-year roadmaps and mentor a team of engineers.

You will design and operate a large-scale AWS platform, collaborating with the customer and delivery teams to ensure secure, scalable services. You will drive CI/CD improvements using Azure DevOps, Argo CD and GitOps, manage incident response,