Albert Bow
Lead Platform Engineer
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Lead Platform Engineer
Lead Platform Engineer | £230k + Equity | London
We're looking for an exceptional Lead Platform Engineer to join one of London's fastest-growing AI businesses at an exciting stage of its growth.
This is a senior, hands-on technical role where you'll take ownership of the platform that powers our clients’ products and customer environments. You'll play a key role in shaping the architecture, scalability, and reliability of our clients' cloud infrastructure, taking on a lead IC role in the team.
Working closely with Engineering, Product, and Customer teams, you'll help build a platform capable of supporting rapid growth, enterprise customers, and increasingly complex deployments. This is a rare opportunity to have a genuine impact on the technical direction of a category-defining AI company while working alongside a world-class engineering team.
The business is offering a highly competitive package, with a salary of up to £230,000 alongside a significant equity award, giving you the chance to share in the company’s long-term success as it continues to scale.
If you're passionate about cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, automation and solving complex engineering challenges, we'd love to hear from you.
What You’ll Be Doing
Own the Technical Direction of the Platform Infrastructure
- Design scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure.
- Drive architectural decisions that improve reliability, performance, and maintainability.
- Establish engineering standards, tooling, and best practices across the platform.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and modernise infrastructure.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
Build & Scale Platform Infrastructure
- Lead the evolution of the Kubernetes platform.
- Build and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
- Design and optimise distributed systems, messaging platforms, and background processing infrastructure.
- Drive improvements across observability, monitoring, and incident response.
- Continuously improve platform scalability, resilience, and operational excellence.
Improve Developer Experience
- Build tooling and automation that enables engineering teams to deliver faster and more reliably.
- Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
- Champion self-service infrastructure and platform capabilities.
- Reduce operational overhead through automation and standardisation.
Support Enterprise Growth
- Design infrastructure capable of supporting cloud-native and enterprise customer deployments.
- Work across Azure, AWS, and GCP, with Azure as the primary cloud platform.
- Ensure platform architecture meets enterprise expectations around security, governance, and availability.
- Support infrastructure initiatives related to SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and broader compliance requirements.
Experience
- 7-12+ years of experience within Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or DevOps.
- Proven experience designing and operating large-scale cloud infrastructure.
- Experience leading complex technical initiatives and driving architectural decisions.
- Strong background in high-growth technology businesses, startups, or scale-ups.
- Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction.
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
Technical Skills
You’ll have strong experience across most of the following:
- Linux
- Kubernetes (AKS experience highly desirable)
- Terraform and IaC
- Azure (preferred), alongside AWS and/or GCP
- CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Observability and monitoring platforms
- Messaging systems and distributed architectures
- Security, scalability, and reliability engineering
- Enterprise infrastructure and hybrid cloud environments
- Scripting and automation (using languages such as Python, Go, or Bash)
What We Offer in Return
- Salary of up to £230,000
- Significant equity package
- Opportunity to influence the technical direction of a rapidly scaling business
- A highly collaborative engineering culture where technical excellence is valued
- Modern cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and distributed systems at scale
If you’d like more information on this role, get in touch with Christian Campbell at Albert Bow.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills
Location