Platform Lead

Platform Tech Lead | AWS | Platform Engineering

Location: West London (Hybrid – 2 days onsite, 3 days remote)

We’re partnering with a well‑established consumer brand that has built a strong reputation for quality, innovation, and customer experience. With a growing technology function and significant investment in engineering excellence, they’re looking for a Platform Technical Lead to help shape the future of their cloud and developer platform capabilities.

This is a highly influential role focused on improving developer productivity, platform reliability, and engineering standards across multiple product teams. You’ll combine strategic platform leadership with hands‑on technical expertise, helping engineering teams move faster through automation, self‑service tooling, and modern cloud practices.

• Define and drive the platform engineering roadmap, aligning initiatives with business and architectural priorities.
• Partner closely with engineering teams to identify challenges and opportunities for platform improvements.
• Build and evolve an internal developer platform that enables teams to deliver software consistently and efficiently.
• Lead initiatives around developer experience, automation, self‑service tooling, templates, and engineering standards.
• Design and operate scalable AWS‑based cloud infrastructure and platform services.
• Own Infrastructure‑as‑Code standards and reusable deployment patterns.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks that reduce risk and accelerate delivery.
• Drive observability, monitoring, and reliability practices across the engineering estate.
• Champion platform best practices through coaching, workshops, documentation, and technical leadership.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI‑assisted engineering capabilities, to improve productivity and engineering effectiveness.

• Strong platform engineering, cloud architecture, or Dev Ops leadership experience.
• Deep expertise in AWS and cloud‑native technologies.
• Strong Infrastructure‑as‑Code experience, ideally with Terraform.
• Proven experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Hands‑on experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, or similar.
• Strong understanding of system architecture, reliability engineering, and operational excellence.
• Development background with Python, .NET, or similar modern programming languages.
• Experience enabling engineering teams through platform tooling, developer experience initiatives, or internal developer platforms.
• Interest in AI Engineering, Git Hub Copilot, and emerging developer productivity technologies.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence both technical and non‑technical audiences.

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