Platform Lead
Platform Tech Lead | AWS | Platform Engineering
Location: West London (Hybrid – 2 days onsite, 3 days remote)
£90 000
We're partnering with a well-established consumer brand that has built a strong reputation for quality, innovation, and customer experience. With a growing technology function and significant investment in engineering excellence, they're looking for a Platform Technical Lead to help shape the future of their cloud and developer platform capabilities.
This is a highly influential role focused on improving developer productivity, platform reliability, and engineering standards across multiple product teams. You'll combine strategic platform leadership with hands-on technical expertise, helping engineering teams move faster through automation, self-service tooling, and modern cloud practices.
What You'll Be Doing
- Define and drive the platform engineering roadmap, aligning initiatives with business and architectural priorities.
- Partner closely with engineering teams to identify challenges and opportunities for platform improvements.
- Build and evolve an internal developer platform that enables teams to deliver software consistently and efficiently.
- Lead initiatives around developer experience, automation, self-service tooling, templates, and engineering standards.
- Design and operate scalable AWS-based cloud infrastructure and platform services.
- Own Infrastructure-as-Code standards and reusable deployment patterns.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks that reduce risk and accelerate delivery.
- Drive observability, monitoring, and reliability practices across the engineering estate.
- Champion platform best practices through coaching, workshops, documentation, and technical leadership.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-assisted engineering capabilities, to improve productivity and engineering effectiveness.
What We're Looking For
- Strong platform engineering, cloud architecture, or DevOps leadership experience.
- Deep expertise in AWS and cloud-native technologies.
- Strong Infrastructure-as-Code experience, ideally with Terraform.
- Proven experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
- Hands-on experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, or similar.
- Strong understanding of system architecture, reliability engineering, and operational excellence.
- Development background with Python, .NET, or similar modern programming languages.
- Experience enabling engineering teams through platform tooling, developer experience initiatives, or internal developer platforms.
- Interest in AI Engineering, GitHub Copilot, and emerging developer productivity technologies.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical audiences.
If this sounds like a match apply or reach out on ryan.daly@lafosse.com