Job Title: Platform Engineering Lead/Platform Architect
Job Location: London (Hybrid - 4 days onsite)
Job Type: FTE
A UK financial institution has built a new banking platform on Kubernetes in AWS. You will lead the small platform engineering team that takes it through go-live and then runs it: you own the platform's reliability, security and engineering standards, and act as the link between the programme, central platform and security teams, and third-party vendors.
What you will do
- Lead and mentor a small team of platform engineers; set priorities, review designs and PRs, hire and onboard.
- Take the platform live: own production readiness, DR testing, pen-test and vulnerability remediation.
- Run the platform: AWS, EKS, Terraform, GitOps, policy enforcement, messaging and observability, with runbooks and incident ownership.
- Own vendor connectivity and security: private and mTLS integrations, certificate lifecycle and identity, working with vendor technical teams.
- Own architecture decisions: write and defend ADRs at architecture review boards.
- Set CI/CD and promotion standards: audited pipelines and release gates, agreed with central engineering.
- Plan and report: Jira backlog, status reporting, cost estimates; raise risks early.
- Support delivery partners onboarding new services onto the platform.
Essential
- Hands-on AWS, Kubernetes/GitOps and Terraform at scale, with team or technical-lead experience.
- Solid grounding in PKI, mTLS, OAuth2/OIDC, and network and edge security.
- Experience running production platforms, including DR and incident management.
- Experience writing architecture decisions and presenting them to governance boards.
- CI/CD expertise and a pragmatic approach to controls in a regulated setting.
- Clear communicator across security, architecture and vendor stakeholders.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering.
Desirable
- Financial services or payments experience.
- Message-broker and observability tooling experience.
- Experience with SaaS banking vendors.
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Platform Engineering Lead/Platform Architect in London employer: FalconSmartIT
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