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Lead Cloud Platform Engineer – Banking
London - Hybrid working - 3/4 days onsite
Permanent - £130k - £170k total compensation DOE
We are looking for a hands-on Lead Cloud Platform Engineer to join a major financial services firm within their enterprise cloud team in London.
The role will focus on improving and scaling an established AWS platform, with particular responsibility for reviewing and evolving the existing Landing Zone as AWS adoption grows across the organisation.
This is a technical leadership role rather than a people management position. You’ll remain fully hands-on while taking ownership of complex platform challenges, technical decisions and the longer-term development of the AWS environment.
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Key Responsibilities
- Improve and scale an established enterprise AWS platform and Landing Zone.
- Review existing cloud foundations and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Build and automate cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Python.
- Improve self-service capabilities for engineering teams consuming AWS.
- Strengthen cloud governance, security and operational standards.
- Take ownership of complex technical problems and key platform engineering decisions.
- Work closely with engineering, security and architecture teams across the organisation.
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- Deep hands-on AWS platform engineering experience.
- Strong experience designing, building or significantly improving AWS Landing Zones.
- Strong Terraform experience.
- Python scripting and automation experience.
- Strong understanding of enterprise multi-account AWS environments.
- Good understanding of cloud security and governance.
- Experience operating within large, complex enterprise environments.
- Ability to provide technical leadership while remaining hands-on.
Desirable
- Financial services experience.
- Experience working within another highly regulated enterprise environment.
- Kubernetes or EKS experience.
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