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Lead Platform Engineer
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Looking for a opportunity, where you can lead engineers and still get stuck into real engineering challenges? Well.. this is the role for you
You’ll be joining a global organisation, but within a close knit engineering unit of around 300 Platform Engineers across the UK, giving you the backing of a major player with the autonomy to actually shape how things are built.
You’ll be part of a Platform Engineering Centre of Excellence, helping deliver and evolve critical public sector services at national scale. This means designing secure, cloud native platforms across AWS, building out multi account landing zones, scaling Kubernetes environments that are the largest in Europe and modernising legacy systems into microservices architectures that are built to last and the much more
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They’re looking for Platform Engineers across England with experience in:
- Cloud – AWS at scale
- Kubernetes & container platforms in production (EKS)
- Infrastructure as Code – Terraform
- CI/CD & automation – GitHub Actions, Jenkins or similar
- Observability & reliability – Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
- Platform thinking – internal developer platforms, self service tooling
- Leadership – mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction
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In return, you’ll work on meaningful systems, lead strong engineering teams, and shape how modern platforms are delivered at scale, all while continuing to grow your own skill set.
If you’re ready to take ownership, push modern engineering forward and make a real impact, this could be the role for you. Apply below or drop me a message on Ethan.farrell@linuxrecruit.co.uk
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