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Platform Engineering Lead - Remote
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Platform Engineering Lead - Remote
Platform Engineering Lead
We're looking for an experienced Platform Engineering Lead to lead our platform capability and enable engineering teams to deliver secure, reliable and scalable software.
This is a hands-on leadership role, combining people management with technical leadership. You'll manage a team of three Platform Engineers while acting as the technical lead for a wider team of five engineers, setting technical direction, coaching engineers and driving platform excellence.
You'll have started your career as a software developer—ideally with a Java background—and progressed into Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or Kubernetes-focused roles. You'll be passionate about:
- Treating infrastructure as a product.
- Improving the developer experience.
- Using automation to simplify software delivery.
Key Responsibilities
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- Lead, mentor and develop a team of three Platform Engineers.
- Provide technical leadership for a wider team of five engineers, defining standards and best practices.
- Design and evolve a secure, scalable cloud platform with a focus on developer experience.
- Drive adoption of:
- Infrastructure as Code.
- CI/CD.
- GitOps.
- Observability.
- Work closely with engineering teams to improve:
- Platform adoption.
- Reliability.
- Software delivery.
- Balance strategic planning with hands-on technical leadership where required.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps or Cloud Infrastructure.
- Previous software development experience, ideally in Java or similar enterprise development environments.
- Experience leading engineering teams, including people management and technical leadership.
- Strong Kubernetes and container platform expertise.
- Deep experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with knowledge of Azure and/or AWS.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or Ansible.
- Experience with CI/CD and GitOps tools such as Jenkins and ArgoCD.
- Knowledge of:
- Cloud-native architectures.
- Microservices.
- Networking.
- Observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical and business teams.
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