SoCode Recruitment
Head of Platform Engineering
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VP of Platform Engineering
£120,000-£135,000 + Bonus
Cambridge, UK - 2-3 Days Per Week (within 1 hr 30 commute)
No Sponsorship Option
We’re hiring a hands-on Head of Platform Engineering to lead the evolution of a cloud-native platform powering highly secure, production-grade environments in a scaling technology business operating within regulated markets.
This is a senior leadership role with direct ownership of platform delivery, reliability, automation, security, operational readiness, and engineering standards across a modern AWS and Kubernetes estate.
You’ll lead a small team of platform and infrastructure engineers while remaining technically close to architecture, delivery, and operational decision-making.
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Key Responsibilities
- Leading platform engineering strategy, roadmap, and delivery
- Evolving AWS / Kubernetes-based infrastructure and GitOps operating models
- Driving production readiness, reliability, resilience, and observability
- Building scalable and repeatable customer deployment environments
- Establishing secure CI/CD, release governance, and operational controls
- Improving platform automation, developer experience, and operational efficiency
- Supporting regulated production environments with strong security and auditability standards
Tech Environment
- AWS
- Kubernetes / EKS
- Terraform
- GitOps
- Argo CD
- GitHub Actions
- CI/CD
- Observability
- Cloud Security
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We’re Looking For Someone With:
- Proven experience leading platform engineering, SRE, or cloud infrastructure teams
- Strong hands-on AWS and Kubernetes expertise
- Experience operating production-grade cloud platforms at scale
- Strong understanding of GitOps, automation, and release governance
- Background in fintech, SaaS, or regulated environments preferred
- Ability to balance pace, pragmatism, resilience, and engineering quality in a growing business
Ideal for someone who enjoys building mature engineering capability within a fast-moving, commercially scaling environment.
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