Lead Platform Engineer Hybrid

Job Title

Lead Platform Engineer

Manchester (Hybrid - 1 day per week in office), United Kingdom

£80,000 - £90,000 + Benefits

Must be UK-based (no sponsorship available)

We're looking for a Lead Platform Engineer to take ownership of the design, delivery, and optimisation of our enterprise cloud hosting platforms. This role combines hands‑on engineering with technical leadership, ensuring systems remain secure, scalable, and resilient. You'll drive platform transformation projects, champion automation, mentor engineers, and engage with stakeholders to deliver high‑impact solutions that underpin business‑critical services.

• Design and implement cloud platforms across Azure & GCP.
• Build and optimise internal platforms to support development teams.
• Automate provisioning, scaling, and configuration management.
• Lead migration and modernisation projects from inception to delivery.
• Drive best practices in cloud architecture, Dev Ops, and automation.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams on greenfield solutions.
• Lead incident response and root‑cause analysis with preventative action.
• Mentor engineers and act as a trusted technical authority.
• Ensure cost efficiency, security, and performance across platforms.

• 5+ years' experience as a Senior/Lead Cloud or Platform Engineer.
• Hands‑on expertise with Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong background with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM Templates, etc.).
• Proven track record with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git Lab CI, Git Hub Actions, ArgoCD).
• Scripting and automation (Python, Shell, Perl, or similar).
• Knowledge of data centre ops, networking, IT security, and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Agile delivery experience.

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Oracle application/database experience.
• Familiarity with Unix/Solaris environments.
• Service mesh & API gateway knowledge (Istio, Linkerd).
• Multi‑cloud or hybrid infrastructure exposure.
• Understanding of Dev Sec Ops  practices and compliance.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Information Technology

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