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Lead Cloud Platform Engineer
CreateFuture · Edinburgh, SCT, United Kingdom
Edinburgh, SCT, United KingdomHybrid
Remuneration
Not specified
Location
Edinburgh, SCT, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
CreateFuture is seeking a Lead Cloud Platform Engineer to oversee the reliability and scalability of Kubernetes-based infrastructure on AWS. The role involves leading a team of platform engineers, managing operational health, and driving improvements in delivery pipelines and GitOps practices.
Benefits
35 days leavePrivate medical insuranceEnhanced parental and adoption leaveFinancial coaching + 5% pension match40 hours of paid learning and development
Qualifications
- Kubernetes at production scale
- GitOps tooling, Flux
- AWS managed services experience
- Terraform experience
- GitHub Actions experience
- Application-layer awareness
- Strong operational mindset
- Proven experience leading a platform or infrastructure engineering team
- Strong stakeholder management skills
Responsibilities
- Own the platform engineering roadmap
- Lead and mentor a team of platform engineers
- Act as the primary technical point of contact for platform-related matters
- Support on call for the EKS platform
- Own the operational health and evolution of containerised workloads
- Drive GitOps practices using Flux
- Manage and optimise core managed services
- Maintain and extend infrastructure-as-code using Terraform
- Support and improve GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows
- Collaborate with development teams
- Identify and address platform-level technical debt
Skills
AWSEKSFluxGitHubGitHub ActionsHelmJavaKotlinKubernetesKustomizeAmazon MSKPythonTerraform
Relocation
No