Senior Platform Engineering Lead - AWS, Kubernetes & FinOps

Netcompany; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Private Medical Health care

Pension contribution

Professional certifications supported

Employee discounts

Job summary

Netcompany is seeking a senior Platform Engineering Lead to steer the cloud platform for a major UK client. You will own the technical direction, oversee a team of engineers, and act as the senior technical contact, shaping multi-year roadmaps and ensuring reliable, secure AWS-based delivery.

You will design, build, and operate large-scale AWS infrastructure with Terraform, Kubernetes (EKS), Istio, and GitOps, while driving CI/CD excellence and cost optimisation. A hybrid UK presence is expected.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in DevOps/platform/SRE with team leadership.
• Expert-level AWS knowledge across compute, networking, data, security and edge services.
• Strong hands-on Kubernetes production experience (EKS, service mesh, autoscaling).
• Deep Infrastructure as Code proficiency (Terraform).
• Proven record of reliable, secure CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Argo CD).
• Strong grounding in observability and incident management in 24/7 environments.
• Working knowledge of security/compliance including vulnerability management.
• Experience in FinOps and cloud cost optimization.

Responsibilities

• Lead the platform engineering team, including resourcing, performance management and on-call rotation design.
• Own multi-year technical direction and roadmap for the cloud platform across environments.
• Design, build and operate AWS infrastructure as code using Terraform (EKS, Istio, GitOps).
• Own CI/CD pipelines and ensure automated testing and quality gates.
• Drive platform availability, resilience, backup/DR, and incident response leadership.
• Manage external SOC providers and governance around security and compliance.
• Lead FinOps and cost optimization with budgeting, tagging and reporting.
• Present designs, risks, and roadmap to the customer and stakeholders.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

FinOps

Security & Compliance

Leadership

Tools

Azure DevOps

Argo CD

Istio

Karpenter

Amazon EKS

Job description

Netcompany is seeking a senior Platform Engineering Lead to steer the cloud platform for a major UK client. You will own the technical direction, oversee a team of engineers, and act as the senior technical contact, shaping multi-year roadmaps and ensuring reliable, secure AWS-based delivery.

You will design, build, and operate large-scale AWS infrastructure with Terraform, Kubernetes (EKS), Istio, and GitOps, while driving CI/CD excellence and cost optimisation. A hybrid UK presence is expected.