Platform Lead / Engineering Manager

A leading global financial services business has an exciting opportunity for a Platform Lead / Engineering Manager to join a dynamic team and play a central part in shaping and extending our internal developer platform which underpins how engineers build, deploy and operate applications across the organisation. Your decisions will directly influence developer experience, security and scalability.

You will lead a distributed engineering team, support their development, and guide day-to-day technical direction for the platform. You will define and refine the product vision, using customer feedback, stakeholder needs and market insight to set priorities and maintain a clear backlog. The role requires close collaboration with application developers, product owners, security and data teams, and includes contributing to enterprise architecture reviews to maintain engineering quality and compliance.

Essential Skills / Experience

Strong familiarity with the Kubernetes ecosystem and hands-on cloud engineering experience is essential - (this is a K8s-first role) + cluster add-ons, networking (Cilium), policy engines (Kyverno), and autoscaling (Karpenter).

Build out - Namespace-as-a-Service capabilities

Review and challenge Kubernetes-related architectural proposals

Debug complex issues across the Kubernetes stack using structured root cause analysis

Review pull requests in Python and Golang that directly interact with the Kubernetes API

Tech Stack

AWS EKS

Cilium

Kyverno

Karpenter

Python

Golang

Kanban

CNCF Stack

GitOps / CD

Policy as Code

IaC

Observability

Visible presence in the cloud native community through open source contributions, community engagement, or conference speaking would be amazing but not essential.