IT & Software

Lead Platform Engineer

LinuxRecruit

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role you will act as a Cloud Subject Matter Expert, guiding the team with technical leadership while staying hands-on with new technologies. You’ll shape direction, mentor junior members, and collaborate with stakeholders to align cloud initiatives with business goals. The position sits within a respected financial tech environment that values learning, autonomy, and innovation. A key hook is the opportunity to leverage AWS, IaC, and container orchestration to drive scalable, reliable cloud solutions and ongoing certification growth.

Pay / Benefits
  • unlimited training budget
  • strong learning and development platform
  • autonomy and flexibility
Responsibilities
  • Provide technical leadership to junior engineers
  • Set team direction and strategy for cloud initiatives
  • Stay hands-on with AWS, IaC, CI/CD, containers, and orchestration
  • Collaborate with stakeholders and help grow the team
  • Contribute to a culture of continuous learning and professional development
Key requirements
  • DevOps experience
  • AWS expertise
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • CI/CD
  • containers and orchestration
  • stakeholder engagement
  • hands-on technical ability
  • leadership or mentorship experience
  • leadership
  • communication
  • mentoring
  • AWS
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • CI/CD

Reference: WJ-747_31160566

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