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Managing/Lead Platform Engineer
Industry & Location
👔 Consultancy/Government 📍 Locations: London, Woking, Worthing, Bristol, Birmingham, Telford, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle 💵 Salary: £90-110k ⚠️ Security Clearance: Sensitivity Clearance Eligibility Required
About the Role
Are you looking to make a high-impact contribution to one of the UK’s most ambitious Kubernetes (K8s) projects? Do you thrive on leading scalable, real-world cloud and platform engineering environments while gaining industry-leading certifications?
You’ll be working with one of the world’s top tech consultancies, driving a multi-year DevOps transformation for a leading UK Government department. This project is designed to revolutionise how the UK Government operates online, delivering significant public benefits such as:
- Cutting waiting times
- Vastly improving user experience (CX)
- Cost savings in the millions of pounds
Key Responsibilities
As a Managing/Lead Platform Engineer, you’ll:
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- Lead ongoing support, optimisation and scaling of a large-scale K8s environment running over 400 Pods and up to 140,000 Nodes at any given time.
- Spearhead growth for teams, acting in a leadership and management capacity.
- Work with cutting-edge technologies day-to-day, including cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), Kubernetes (Helm, Kops, Istio Service Mesh), and mature CI/CD pipelines.
Technical Expertise
The ideal candidate will demonstrate deep expertise in:
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Cloud & Containerisation
- AWS, GCP, & Azure (servers, storage, networking, and security)
- Kubernetes, Helm & Kops (cluster orchestration)
- Service Mesh & Istio (service-to-service communication)
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Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Configuration Management
- Terraform (Infrastructure provisioning)
- Ansible (configuration management)
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CI/CD & DevOps Practices
- GitOps & GitHub Actions
- Jenkins (build orchestration)
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Observability & Monitoring
- OpenTelemetry (OTel)
- Dynatrace
- Grafana (metrics, dashboards)
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- Linux Systems
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Ubuntu & Debian
Why Join Us?
âś… Career Growth & Certifications
- Mandatory certification scheme covering AWS, CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), and HashiCorp certifications (fully funded).
- Uncapped progression – Merit-based career growth with no tests; just proven performance triggers upward movement.
🏥 Benefits
- 10% combined pension contribution
- Private Medical & Dental Insurance
- Flexible Benefits (including Optional Term Life Assurance, General Insurance Protection, and enhanced Dental)
- Travel expenses to client sites covered
- Hybrid working for increased flexibility & work-life balance
This is not merely a job—it is a chance to lead ground-breaking change in UK government digital transformation with one of the biggest K8s deployments in Europe. If you have the expertise, leadership drive and passion to help us make a difference at scale, apply today!
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