Senior Platform Engineer: AWS, Kubernetes & FinOps Lead

Netcompany Group A/S; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Private Medical Health care

Pension contribution

Life Assurance

Certifications supported

Employee Resource Groups

Retail discounts

Job summary

Netcompany in the United Kingdom is seeking a senior Platform Engineering lead to own the technical direction, delivery and reliability of a major AWS cloud 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 lead a team responsible for designing, building and operating a large-scale AWS platform, working closely with the customer and internal delivery teams.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in AWS infrastructure as code using Terraform.
• Experience running modern container platforms: EKS, Karpenter, Istio; GitOps deployment.
• Own reliability and performance of CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Argo CD) with automated testing and quality gates.
• Strong leadership, mentoring engineers and on-call rota design.
• Experience managing external SOC providers and leading FinOps and cost optimisation.
• AWS certifications required as a minimum.

Responsibilities

• Lead platform engineering team, manage resources, recruitment and on-call rota design.
• Own platform across environments, define multi-year technical direction and roadmap (Kubernetes, upgrades, lifecycle).
• Design, build and operate AWS infrastructure as code (Terraform) and run container platforms (EKS, Karpenter, Istio) and GitOps deployment.
• Own CI/CD pipelines reliability and performance (Azure DevOps, Argo CD) with automated testing and quality gates.
• Drive platform availability, resilience and disaster recovery with backup/restore, failover and incident response.
• Manage SOC providers and lead security/compliance initiatives; vulnerability management and secrets management.
• Lead FinOps and cost optimisation, budgeting, tagging, reporting and right-sizing.
• Present designs, risks, incidents, cost and roadmap to customer; collaborate with product/delivery/architecture teams.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Istio

GitOps

Argo CD

Azure DevOps

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenSearch

CloudWatch

Education

AWS Certifications

Tools

Amazon EKS

Karpenter

Istio

GitOps tooling

Argo CD

Azure DevOps

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenSearch

CloudWatch

Job description

Netcompany in the United Kingdom is seeking a senior Platform Engineering lead to own the technical direction, delivery and reliability of a major AWS cloud 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 lead a team responsible for designing, building and operating a large-scale AWS platform, working closely with the customer and internal delivery teams.