Lead Cloud Platform Engineer (AWS)

Job summary

Leads hands-on engineering of a client’s AWS platform, ensuring its reliability, scalability, and evolution while guiding the platform team and coordinating with technical and business stakeholders. The role involves designing platform capabilities such as federated identity, prioritising infrastructure work, translating requirements into implementable and auditable plans, and preparing the platform for wider use in 2027.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on AWS cloud engineering and platform design experience.
• Ability to work independently, navigate an unfamiliar technical estate, and make sound technical judgments.
• Experience with federated identity and complex integrations.
• Familiarity with Amazon Bedrock and Bedrock AgentCore.
• Experience in regulated environments, including risk, assurance, and design controls.
• Experience leading a platform or infrastructure engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Design and build reliable AWS platform capabilities, including federated identity.
• Assess the existing platform and prioritise work through year-end.
• Translate requirements into implementable, auditable work with solution architects and technical business analysts.
• Establish a foundation for wider platform use in 2027.
• Own incident management, on-call frameworks, and post-incident reviews.
• Lead, mentor, and support the day-to-day performance of the platform engineering team.
• Engage technical and non-technical stakeholders and translate complex topics into clear priorities.

Skills

Travel

Relocation