Lead Cloud Platform Engineer; Kubernetes - Remote

This is not a live vacancy. We are building a talent pipeline ahead of anticipated demand and are keen to connect with strong Senior and Lead Cloud Platform Engineers for future opportunities.

We are seeking an experienced Cloud Platform Engineer to join our platform engineering team. This is a hands‑on role focused on designing, building, operating, and continuously improving cloud‑native platforms that enable development teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure applications.

The successful candidate will combine deep expertise in Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, automation, and Dev Ops practices with a strong operational mindset. They will be responsible for maintaining the health and evolution of containerised workloads, enhancing developer experience, and driving improvements across infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and platform services.

At the Lead level, this role also combines that hands‑on expertise with team leadership, stakeholder engagement, and delivery planning. The right candidate can operate credibly at an engineering level while also communicating clearly with business and technical stakeholders, translating platform priorities into a coherent roadmap and ensuring the team has the clarity and support needed to deliver effectively.

This role requires a proactive engineer who can work independently, collaborate effectively across teams, and contribute to the ongoing maturity of modern cloud platforms.

• Own and support the operational health, reliability, scalability, and performance of Kubernetes-based platforms and containerised workloads
• Manage and evolve Kubernetes environments, including workload deployment, configuration management, cluster operations, and platform upgrades
• Drive and maintain Git Ops practices to ensure consistent, automated, and auditable infrastructure and application deployments
• Build, maintain, and improve infrastructure‑as‑code solutions to support scalable, repeatable, and secure cloud environments
• Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines to streamline software delivery, improve deployment reliability, and reduce operational overhead
• Manage and optimise cloud‑native and managed platform services, including capacity planning, performance tuning, cost optimisation, patching, and lifecycle management
• Partner with software engineering teams to support application deployment, troubleshooting, observability, and platform adoption
• Monitor platform health and respond to incidents, conducting root cause analysis and implementing preventative improvements
• Identify technical debt and contribute to platform roadmaps focused on operational excellence, security, automation, and developer productivity
• Champion best practices in cloud architecture, security, reliability, automation, and platform engineering
• Participate in on‑call support and incident management activities as required, including for the EKS platform

• Own the platform engineering roadmap, working with business and technical stakeholders to prioritise initiatives, surface risks, and align delivery against wider programme goals
• Lead and mentor a team of platform engineers, providing technical guidance, supporting growth, and maintaining quality and consistency across the team's output
• Act as the primary technical point of contact for platform‑related matters across engineering, product, and operations teams
• Translate platform priorities into clear, actionable plans, ensuring the team understands objectives, dependencies, and delivery timelines
• Contribute to resourcing, planning, and prioritisation discussions, balancing technical debt, reliability, and new feature delivery
• Provide regular updates on roadmap progress, risks, and dependencies to relevant stakeholders and leadership

• Strong experience operating Kubernetes in production environments, including cluster administration, workload management, networking, security, and performance optimisation
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, with a strong understanding of managed cloud services
• Hands‑on experience with Git Ops…