Technical Lead – Platform Engineering £80,000 - £85,000 | Remote UK Linux | Kubernetes | OTA | Observability Would you like to shape technology that operates across distributed, real-world environments? Are you ready to combine hands-on technical leadership with building and supporting a talented engineering team? Our client is a growing technology business delivering business-critical solutions used by a huge volume of people and businesses around the world. As part of continued investment in their core platform capability, they are looking for a Technical Lead – Platform Engineering to help shape the next stage of their technical evolution. You’ll have the autonomy to influence technical direction, explore modern engineering approaches and support a team of skilled engineers as they build reliable, secure and scalable systems. This role offers the chance to work across a modern platform environment involving Linux, Kubernetes, container orchestration, OTA update mechanisms, observability, automation, secure deployment pipelines and distributed systems . Linux-based platform environments Automation, image build tooling and deployment pipelines Cloud-native engineering practices What matters most is strong platform engineering knowledge, technical curiosity and the ability to lead others through complex technical challenges. Guide engineering standards, code quality and technical decision-making. Work closely with architecture, software engineering and operations teams. Help create a supportive, inclusive and enjoyable team environment. You may already be working as a Technical Lead, Platform Engineering Lead, Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, Senior Infrastructure Engineer or similar. Linux systems, platform engineering or infrastructure engineering. Automation, deployment tooling or secure software delivery. Observability, monitoring, logging and reliability engineering. Communicating technical ideas clearly to engineers and stakeholders.
