Head of Platform Engineering
£120,000-£140,000 + Bonus
London hybrid, with Cambridge Travel
No Sponsorship Option
We're hiring a hands‐on Head of Platform Engineering to lead the evolution of a cloud‐native platform powering highly secure, production‐grade environments in a scaling technology business operating within regulated markets.
This is a senior leadership role with direct ownership of platform delivery, reliability, automation, security, operational readiness and engineering standards across a modern AWS and Kubernetes estate, reporting directly into the CTO.
You'll lead a small team of platform and infrastructure engineers while remaining technically close to architecture, delivery and operational decision‐making.
Key responsibilities include:
Leading platform engineering strategy, roadmap and delivery
Evolving AWS / Kubernetes‐based infrastructure and GitOps operating models
Driving production readiness, reliability, resilience and observability
Building scalable and repeatable customer deployment environments
Establishing secure CI/CD,



release governance and operational controls
Improving platform automation, developer experience and operational efficiency
Supporting regulated production environments with strong security and auditability standards
Tech environment includes:
AWS | Kubernetes / EKS | Terraform | GitOps | Argo CD | GitHub Actions | CI/CD | Observability | Cloud Security
We're looking for someone with:
Proven experience leading platform engineering, SRE or cloud infrastructure teams
Strong hands‐on AWS and Kubernetes (EKS) expertise
Experience operating production‐grade cloud platforms at scale
Strong understanding of GitOps, automation and release governance
Background in fintech, SaaS or regulated environments preferred
Ability to balance pace, pragmatism, resilience and engineering quality in a growing business
Ideal for someone who enjoys building mature engineering capability within a quick‐moving, commercially scaling environment.
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