Staff Platform Engineer // Tech Lead - Platform Engineering
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£100,000-£120,000 + Bonus
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London Hybrid, with travel to Cambridge
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No Sponsorship Option
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We’re hiring a Staff /Lead Platform Engineer to provide deep technical leadership across a modern cloud-native platform within a scaling SaaS / fintech environment.
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This is a highly hands‑on senior engineering role focused on platform architecture, Kubernetes, GitOps, cloud security, reliability and engineering standards. While not a people‑management position, the role carries significant technical influence across platform direction, architecture and operational maturity.
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You’ll work closely with senior engineering leadership to evolve and harden a production‑grade AWS platform supporting secure, scalable and repeatable customer environments.
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- Driving technical direction across AWS, Kubernetes/EKS and GitOps infrastructure
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- Reviewing and improving platform architecture, resiliency and operational readiness
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- Defining engineering standards across infrastructure, CI/CD, observability and security
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- Leading best practices around Terraform, Argo CD, deployment automation and platform operations
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- Supporting secure multi‑environment and SaaS deployment models
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- Improving platform reliability, monitoring, disaster recovery and production hardening
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- Mentoring engineers through design reviews, code reviews and technical guidance
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- Deep AWS and Kubernetes (EKS) platform engineering experience
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- Robust background operating cloud‑native production environments
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- Expertise in infrastructure as code and GitOps practices
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- Strong understanding of cloud security, IAM, networking and resilience
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- Experience mentoring engineers and driving engineering standards
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- Ability to make pragmatic technical decisions in fast‑moving environments
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Experience within fintech, regulated SaaS, payments or financial services environments would be highly beneficial.
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Excellent opportunity for an experienced platform engineer who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges while shaping the technical foundations of a growing business.
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📌 Staff Platform Engineer (Town of Cambridge)
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