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Lead Platform Engineer
Lha*** · Leeds, ENG, United Kingdom
Leeds, ENG, United KingdomExp: 5+ yrs70,000-? GBPHybrid
Remuneration
34 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, healthcare cashback, private medical insurance, discounted gym and retail benefits, three times life insurance, annual bonuses, free onsite parking, an employee advice line, and a pension plan.
Location
Leeds, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Sponsors visa
Job summary
The Lead Platform Engineer sets technical direction and operational standards for a cloud-native platform supporting scalable SaaS delivery. The role leads and mentors platform engineers, owns production reliability, and improves developer self-service, deployment, and observability using technologies such as Kubernetes, AWS, ArgoCD, Backstage, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.
Benefits
34 days of annual leave plus bank holidaysHealthcare cashbackPrivate medical insuranceDiscounted gym and retail benefitsThree times life insuranceAnnual bonusesFree onsite parkingEmployee advice linePension plan
Qualifications
- At least 5 years designing cloud infrastructure and owning production SaaS platforms.
- Expertise in Kubernetes orchestration, multi-cluster management, and resource optimization.
- Experience architecting infrastructure across multiple cloud providers and managing costs.
- Hands-on GitOps experience with ArgoCD and Helm.
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as CDK, Terraform, or Ansible, and with observability platforms.
- Knowledge of security standards and compliance for high-value data environments.
- Strong stakeholder management and ability to influence across organizational boundaries.
- Experience with developer portals and self-service capabilities.
- AWS or Kubernetes certifications, such as CKA or CKAD, are desirable.
- Experience implementing DORA or Core 4 metrics is desirable.
- TypeScript or React experience for portal customization is desirable.
Responsibilities
- Set the platform engineering vision, strategy, and roadmap in line with organizational goals.
- Lead, mentor, and develop the platform engineering team.
- Plan team capacity and allocate resources across delivery, operations, and technical debt.
- Establish SaaS delivery operating models and implement DORA and Core 4 metrics.
- Set standards for cloud infrastructure, containers, orchestration, observability, security, and CI/CD.
- Design GitOps workflows with ArgoCD and self-service capabilities through Backstage.
- Own production SaaS infrastructure reliability and provide third-line escalation support.
- Build Jenkins CI/CD pipelines and manage multi-cluster Kubernetes environments.
- Maintain Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki observability with SLIs, SLOs, and alerting.
- Create runbooks and incident response procedures.
- Improve infrastructure cost efficiency and automate toil.
- Collaborate with product, member services, and security teams on platform needs and compliance.
- Document architectural decisions, review code and infrastructure changes, and promote consistent tool adoption.
Skills
AnsibleArgo CDAWSBackstageAWS CDKDockerGrafanaHelmJenkinsKubernetesLokiPrometheusTerraformTypeScriptJavaScript
Certifications
AWS certificationCertified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
Languages
TypeScript
Industry
Scientific software and researchChemicalsPharmaceuticalsCosmetics
Relocation
No