Lead Cloud Platform Engineer - Leeds - £75K - Hybrid
I am looking for a Lead Cloud Platform Engineer for a pharmaceutical company based in Leeds. You will be in the office 2 days a week. The Lead Cloud Engineer will provides strategic technical leadership for the companies cloud-native platform engineering initiatives, establishing architectural standards and operational practices that enable scalable SaaS product delivery.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor and develop the Platform Engineering team, defining the vision, strategy and roadmap to ensure platform initiatives align with organisational priorities and long-term objectives.
- Lead and develop the Platform Engineering team, shaping its vision, strategy and roadmap to deliver against broader business and technology objectives.
- Mentor engineers in Kubernetes, Docker, Helm and GitOps, ensuring infrastructure changes follow robust engineering standards and best practices.
- Ensure the reliability and resilience of production SaaS infrastructure, providing third-line support for complex incidents and escalations.
Key skills the Lead Cloud Platform Engineer will have:
- Excellent Kubernetes experience
- Very proficient with AWS
- 4 years experience as a Cloud, DevOps or Platform Engineer
- AWS or Kubernetes certifications are desirable
- Previous experience managing/mentoring a small cloud/platform team
- Excellent stakeholder management experience
Benefits:
- 34 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Can sell up to 5 days holidays and can carry over 6 days holidays into the next year (You can end up with 40 days holiday + Bank holidays)
- Flexible working, 37.5hrs Mon-Friday but flexibility
- Pension - 8%/12%
- Non contractual bonus every July (Last year was £2.5K)
- Free healthcare cashback and entitled to Sovereign - Not just for you but for your family as well
- Free Private medical - You and your Family
- Free onsite parking
- Company events (Summer BBQ) and Christmas meal.
Commutable from Leeds, Manchester ,Halifax, Huddersfield, York, Harrogate, Wakefield, Doncaster and Bradford
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