Job Description
Head of Platform Engineering £120,000-£140,000 + Bonus London hybrid, with Cambridge Travel No Sponsorship Option n
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.
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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.
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You'll lead a small team of platform and infrastructure engineers while remaining technically close to architecture, delivery and operational decision‐making.
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Leading platform engineering strategy, roadmap and delivery
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Evolving AWS / Kubernetes‐based infrastructure and GitOps operating models
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Driving production readiness, reliability, resilience and observability
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Building scalable and repeatable customer deployment environments
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Establishing secure CI/CD,



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