Senior Platform Engineer – AWS, Kubernetes & CI/CD

Remote Genie; Greater London, Leeds, Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model with some remote

25days’ holiday

Private Medical Health Care via Vitaly

Pension contribution

Life Assurance

Professional certifications supported

Retail discounts

Employee Resource Groups

Job summary

Netcompany is seeking a seasoned Platform Engineering leader to drive the technical direction of a major UK cloud platform. You will mentor engineers, shape multi-year roadmaps, and partner with the customer and internal teams to deliver scalable and secure AWS-based solutions.

You will design and operate infrastructure as code, manage CI/CD pipelines, and ensure availability, resilience and cost efficiency across environments.

Qualifications

• Lead platform or DevOps teams delivering reliable cloud platforms.
• Deep AWS infrastructure as code experience with Terraform.
• Experience with modern container platforms (EKS, Istio) and GitOps.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, and on-call planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead the platform engineering team across resourcing, performance, and on-call rotas.
• Set multi-year technical direction and roadmap for AWS platform and Kubernetes stack.
• Design, build and operate AWS infra as code and CI/CD pipelines (AzDevOps, Argo CD).
• Ensure reliability, security, and compliance; manage incident response and DR testing.
• Drive FinOps and cost optimisation; communicate with customer & internal teams.

Skills

AWS architecture

Leadership

Cloud platforms

Security & compliance

CI/CD strategy

Education

AWS certifications

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Istio

Argo CD

GitOps

Amazon EKS

Azure DevOps

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenSearch

Job description

Netcompany is seeking a seasoned Platform Engineering leader to drive the technical direction of a major UK cloud platform. You will mentor engineers, shape multi-year roadmaps, and partner with the customer and internal teams to deliver scalable and secure AWS-based solutions.

You will design and operate infrastructure as code, manage CI/CD pipelines, and ensure availability, resilience and cost efficiency across environments.