Engineering Lead in Edinburgh

Location: Edinburgh - 2 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh, EH12 9FQ

Department: IMS - Engineering

Business Area: Engineering

Working time: Full-Time

Date Published: 17-09-2026

Salary: up to £89,640 + annual bonus & benefits

Work Level: 2

Location: Edinburgh/Newcastle, Permanent Office Attendance – Our hybrid working model gives you the best of both worlds - flexibility to work from home and valuable face-to-face time with colleagues. This role typically requires 2 days per week onsite.

Closing Date: Applications close on 1st October at 5pm

We're looking for a talented Engineering Lead to shape the future of our AWS Platform Engineering team, driving strategy, innovation and operational excellence. This is a strategic and hands-on leadership role responsible for defining and delivering the roadmap for our AWS platform. You'll lead a team of highly skilled platform engineers, ensuring our cloud services are secure, resilient, observable, and easy for engineering teams across the organisation to consume.

You'll work closely with architecture, security, product, engineering, and operational teams to create a modern cloud platform that accelerates delivery while maintaining the highest standards of reliability, governance, and operational excellence. As a leader, you'll balance technical strategy with people leadership, helping engineers grow while driving platform adoption and continuous improvement across the wider technology organisation.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead, develop and inspire a high-performing AWS Platform Engineering team, fostering a culture of innovation, ownership and operational excellence.
• Define and deliver the AWS platform strategy and roadmap, aligning priorities and investment to business and technology objectives.
• Drive platform engineering best practices, including Infrastructure as Code, automation and self-service capabilities.
• Own AWS landing zones, cloud governance frameworks, guardrails and operational standards.
• Ensure the platform meets security, compliance, resilience, availability and scalability requirements.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and third-party partners to support successful delivery and operational performance.
• Drive continuous improvement across cloud operations, reliability, observability, incident management, resilience testing and disaster recovery.
• Optimise cloud spend through effective FinOps practices, capacity management and cost-efficiency initiatives.

What we’re looking for (minimum criteria):

• Proven leadership of platform, cloud or infrastructure engineering teams within enterprise-scale AWS environments.
• Ownership of platform strategy, roadmaps, technology investment decisions and cloud cost optimisation (FinOps).
• Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
• Experience designing and operating resilient, secure, highly available cloud platforms, with deep knowledge of networking, IAM, AWS Organisations, Control Tower and security controls.
• Technical expertise across EKS/container platforms, CI/CD automation, platform APIs, self-service provisioning and observability solutions.
• Proven delivery of SRE practices, monitoring standards, operational telemetry and incident/service recovery management.
• Strong stakeholder and vendor management, building effective partnerships across engineering, architecture, security, business and senior leadership teams.
• Inspirational people leader who creates clarity and direction, fosters accountability, drives continuous improvement, makes data-driven decisions and develops high-performing teams.

We welcome applications from everyone. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you.

What’s in it for you:

• A generous pension, with up to 7.5% employer contribution, depending on what you put in.
• Private Medical Insurance (WL2+) and virtual GP Service for you and your family.
• Performance related annual bonus.
• 7.2 weeks holiday, with the opportunity to buy more.
• Colleague Clubcard discount (10-15% + second card to share with someone else).
• Enhanced parental leave.
• Opportunities to Save and Buy as you earn.
• A place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities to help you achieve the job and career you want.

As a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2), we’re committed to creating an accessible and supportive environment for all. We offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, including interviews, to ensure every candidate has a fair opportunity to succeed. We also know the importance of balancing work with life’s other commitments. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need, as we’re committed to exploring part-time and flexible working opportunities, at every level of the organisation.

Interviews are expected to be held shortly after closing date. Don't miss out. We're assessing applications throughout the recruitment process and may close this opportunity ahead of the closing date if we receive a high volume of applications.