Platform Engineering Lead/Platform Architect

Job Description \n \n *Lead and mentor* a small team of platform engineers; set priorities, review designs and PRs, hire and onboard. \n *Take the platform live:* own production readiness, DR testing, pen-test and vulnerability remediation. \n *Run the platform:* AWS, EKS, Terraform, GitOps, policy enforcement, messaging and observability, with runbooks and incident ownership. \n *Own vendor connectivity and security:* private and mTLS integrations, certificate life cycle and identity, working with vendor technical teams. \n *Own architecture decisions:* write and defend ADRs at architecture review boards. \n *Set CI/CD and promotion standards:* audited pipelines and release gates, agreed with central engineering. \n *Plan and report:* Jira backlog, status reporting, cost estimates; raise risks early. \n *Support delivery partners* onboarding new services onto the platform. \n \n *Essential* \n \n Hands-on AWS, Kubernetes/GitOps and Terraform at scale, with team or technical-lead experience. \n Solid grounding in PKI, mTLS, OAuth2/OIDC, and network and edge security. \n Experience running production platforms, including DR and incident management. \n Experience writing architecture decisions and presenting them to governance boards. \n CI/CD expertise and a pragmatic approach to controls in a regulated setting. \n Clear communicator across security, architecture and vendor stakeholders. \n Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering. \n \n *Desirable* \n \n Financial services or payments experience. \n Message-broker and observability tooling experience. \n