Lead Platform Engineer

Lead Platform Engineer Lead Platform Engineer - Lonon / Hybrid Salary up to £110,000  excellent benefits SC cleared or SC eligible candidates required Work on large scale cloud platforms supporting critical UK public sector services ABOUT THE CLIENT Our client is a global technology consultancy delivering secure digital transformation programmes across the UK public sector. Their engineering teams design and operate modern cloud platforms that power critical government services used by millions of citizens every day.

Due to continued growth across multiple national programmes, they are looking to hire experienced Lead Platform Engineers to join their expanding engineering capability. THE BENEFITS Salary up to £105,000 plus benefits Flexible model with office and client travel Clear technical career progression and leadership pathways Access to industry recognised certifications and training Opportunity to work on large scale national digital transformation programmes Strong engineering culture with knowledge sharing and collaboration Flexible benefits package and wellbeing support THE LEAD PLATFORM ENGINEER ROLE As a Lead Platform Engineer, you will work within agile engineering teams designing and building secure, scalable cloud platforms for major UK public sector organisations.

You will help deliver enterprise scale infrastructure platforms that enable development teams to build and deploy secure digital services. Typical responsibilities include:
Designing and improving cloud infrastructure platforms Building Infrastructure as Code using Terraform Supporting container platforms using Kubernetes and Docker Developing CI/CD pipelines to automate delivery and deployment Improving platform monitoring, reliability and observability Providing technical leadership and mentoring engineers across delivery teams LEAD PLATFORM ENGINEER ESSENTIAL SKILLS Strong AWS cloud platform engineering experience Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform Container technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker Strong Linux engineering and scripting experience Experience building CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git Lab or similar tools Experience supporting large scale production cloud platforms Ability to provide technical leadership within engineering teams Candidates must be SC cleared or eligible to obtain SC clearance.

TO BE CONSIDERED Please either apply through this advert or emailing me directly via . For further information please call me: / . By applying for this role, you give express consent for us to process and submit (subject to required skills) your application to our client in conjunction with this vacancy only. KEY SKILLS Lead Platform Engineer, Senior Platform Engineer, Dev Ops Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, CI/CD, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure as Code, NSD