Lead Platform Engineer

Overview

In this role you will act as a Cloud Subject Matter Expert, guiding the team with technical leadership while staying hands-on with new technologies. You’ll shape direction, mentor junior members, and collaborate with stakeholders to align cloud initiatives with business goals. The position sits within a respected financial tech environment that values learning, autonomy, and innovation. A key hook is the opportunity to leverage AWS, IaC, and container orchestration to drive scalable, reliable cloud solutions and ongoing certification growth.

Pay / Benefits

• unlimited training budget
• strong learning and development platform
• autonomy and flexibility

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to junior engineers
• Set team direction and strategy for cloud initiatives
• Stay hands-on with AWS, IaC, CI/CD, containers, and orchestration
• Collaborate with stakeholders and help grow the team
• Contribute to a culture of continuous learning and professional development

Key requirements

• DevOps experience
• AWS expertise
• Infrastructure as Code
• CI/CD
• containers and orchestration
• stakeholder engagement
• hands-on technical ability
• leadership or mentorship experience

• leadership
• communication
• mentoring
• AWS
• Infrastructure as Code
• CI/CD

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