Lead Cloud Platform Engineer

Lead Cloud Platform Engineer – Leeds – £75K – Hybrid

I am looking for a Lead Cloud Platform Engineer for a pharmaceutical company based in Leeds. You will be in the office 2 days a week. The Lead Cloud Engineer will provides strategic technical leadership for the companies cloud-native platform engineering initiatives, establishing architectural standards and operational practices that enable scalable SaaS product delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and develop the Platform Engineering team, defining the vision, strategy and roadmap to ensure platform initiatives align with organisational priorities and long-term objectives.
• Lead and develop the Platform Engineering team, shaping its vision, strategy and roadmap to deliver against broader business and technology objectives.
• Mentor engineers in Kubernetes, Docker, Helm and GitOps, ensuring infrastructure changes follow robust engineering standards and best practices.
• Ensure the reliability and resilience of production SaaS infrastructure, providing third-line support for complex incidents and escalations.

Key skills the Lead Cloud Platform Engineer will have:

• Excellent Kubernetes experience
• Very proficient with AWS
• 4 years experience as a Cloud, DevOps or Platform Engineer
• AWS or Kubernetes certifications are desirable
• Previous experience managing/mentoring a small cloud/platform team
• Excellent stakeholder management experience

Benefits:

• 34 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Can sell up to 5 days holidays and can carry over 6 days holidays into the next year (You can end up with 40 days holiday + Bank holidays)
• Flexible working, 37.5hrs Mon-Friday but flexibility
• Pension – 8%/12%
• Non contractual bonus every July (Last year was £2.5K)
• Free healthcare cashback and entitled to Sovereign – Not just for you but for your family as well
• Free Private medical – You and your Family
• Free onsite parking
• Company events (Summer BBQ) and Christmas meal.

Commutable from Leeds, Manchester ,Halifax, Huddersfield, York, Harrogate, Wakefield, Doncaster and Bradford

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