At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and mentor a team while driving platform excellence and innovation.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking tech company focused on secure and scalable software solutions.
- Benefits: Remote work, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Diverse and inclusive workplace with a commitment to equal opportunity.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by shaping the future of cloud platforms and engineering practices.
- Qualifications: Experience in Platform Engineering, leadership skills, and strong technical expertise.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Overview
Platform Engineering Lead.
We're looking for an experienced Platform Engineering Lead to lead our platform capability and enable engineering teams to deliver secure, reliable and scalable software.
This is a hands-on leadership role, combining people management with technical leadership.
You'll manage a team of three Platform Engineers while acting as the technical lead for a wider team of five engineers, setting technical direction, coaching engineers and driving platform excellence.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor and develop a team of three Platform Engineers.
- Provide technical leadership for a wider team of five engineers, defining standards and best practices.
- Design and evolve a secure, scalable cloud platform with a focus on developer experience.
- Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, Git Ops and observability.
- Work closely with engineering teams to improve platform adoption, reliability and software delivery.
- Balance strategic planning with hands-on technical leadership where required.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, Dev Ops or Cloud Infrastructure.
- Previous software development experience, ideally in Java or similar enterprise development environments.
- Experience leading engineering teams, including people management and technical leadership.
- Strong Kubernetes and container platform expertise.
- Deep experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with knowledge of Azure and/or AWS.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or Ansible.
- Experience with CI/CD and Git Ops tools such as Jenkins and Argo CD.
- Knowledge of cloud-native architectures, microservices, networking and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and Open Telemetry.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical and business teams.
- Equal Opportunity
We believe in equal opportunity for all and actively encourage applications from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
Source Group International Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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