Senior Platform Engineer — AWS, Kubernetes & CI/CD

Netcompany; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

25 days holiday

Private Medical Health care via Vitaly

Pension contribution

Professional certifications supported

Employee discounts

Employee Resource Groups

Job summary

Netcompany is seeking a senior Platform Engineering lead in the UK to own the technical direction, delivery and reliability of a large-scale AWS platform. You will shape the 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 using Terraform, run modern container platforms (EKS, Istio), and manage CI/CD with Azure DevOps and Argo CD.

Qualifications

• Deep experience leading platform or DevOps teams delivering secure cloud platforms.
• Expertise in AWS IaC with Terraform across networking, compute and security.
• Hands-on with container platforms like EKS, Istio and GitOps deployments.
• Can own CI/CD reliability with Azure DevOps and Argo CD.
• Strong leadership: mentoring, performance management and on-call planning.
• Experience with SOC providers and FinOps/cost optimization.
• AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect/DevOps/SysOps are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the platform engineering team, including resourcing and on-call design.
• Own multi-year platform roadmap across environments and upgrades.
• Design, build and operate AWS infra as code using Terraform; manage EKS and Istio.
• Oversee CI/CD reliability with automated testing and quality gates.
• Drive availability, DR, backups, incident response and observability.
• Manage security/compliance with vulnerability management and access control.
• Lead FinOps and cost optimization initiatives; communicate roadmap and risks.

Skills

AWS Terraform

Kubernetes

EKS

Istio

GitOps

Azure DevOps

Argo CD

Leadership

FinOps

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Kubernetes

Istio

Argo CD

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

OpenSearch

CloudWatch

Job description

Netcompany is seeking a senior Platform Engineering lead in the UK to own the technical direction, delivery and reliability of a large-scale AWS platform. You will shape the 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 using Terraform, run modern container platforms (EKS, Istio), and manage CI/CD with Azure DevOps and Argo CD.