Lead Platform Engineer (AWS)

Overview

In this role you lead teams to design, automate, and operate modern digital service platforms in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. You act as the technical leader, mentor peers, and interact with customers to ensure high-quality delivery. You’ll champion DevOps culture, share knowledge, and push for responsible, transparent decision-making while exploring new technologies to shape scalable platforms for real impact.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering, testing, consulting, product management and security to build, test, and deploy high-quality software and maintain platform services.
• Apply modern technologies and best practices to maximise user and business value.
• Share knowledge internally and publicly through communities of practice and industry channels.
• Model and promote DevOps values, providing trustworthy leadership and mentoring.
• Explore and pivot toward specialisms as you gain exposure to new technologies.
• Provide technical direction and leadership for the team on delivery and support projects.
• Coach and develop team members, managing performance and career progression.

Key requirements

• Strong verbal and written communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proven experience in team leadership and enabling a DevOps culture on complex projects.
• Role requires SC Clearance.
• Extensive experience designing, building, testing, automating, monitoring, and improving reliability of modern digital service platforms in production.
• Experience with continuous delivery and automation, including platform orchestration via configuration management tools.
• Experience with building or supporting modern digital service platforms including architecture, design, estimation, planning, and MVP iteration using agile methods.
• Advocacy for Site Reliability Engineering tooling, techniques, and processes to manage and improve platform services (monitoring, modernization, cost optimization).
• Experience with AWS (SaaS or PaaS offerings) to solve business problems.

• Strategic thinking and decision-making
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Mentoring and coaching
• AWS (SaaS/PaaS)
• Continuous Delivery and automation
• Platform orchestration

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