Platform Engineer
🚀 Lead Platform Engineer
Are you a senior engineer who thrives on enabling teams to deliver faster, safer, and more consistently?
This is a senior, enablement-focused role where you’ll shape and improve the shared platform capabilities that help our squads deliver with speed and confidence. You’ll lead the evolution of our AWS and engineering foundations, covering cloud infrastructure, account and environment management, deployment patterns, security guardrails, observability, automation, and developer experience.
A key part of this role is ensuring our organisation is set up to adopt AI safely, efficiently, and at scale. You’ll define the right tooling, controls, reusable patterns, and platform standards so teams can use AI effectively without compromising security, quality, compliance, or cost.
This isn’t about becoming a delivery bottleneck. It’s about enabling squads through strong reusable foundations, sensible standards, strategic platform leadership, and practical support.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and drive the platform engineering strategy in line with business and technology goals
- Own and evolve our AWS platform patterns (multi-account strategy, IAM, networking, guardrails, etc.)
- Improve CI/CD, deployment workflows, and self-service capabilities to enable faster, safer delivery
- Build platform foundations for safe and scalable AI adoption across engineering workflows
- Strengthen security, observability, reliability, and operational excellence
- Significantly improve developer experience through better tooling, automation, and standards
About You:
- Strong hands-on experience in platform engineering, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, or SRE
- Deep practical AWS expertise across infrastructure, IAM, networking, deployment patterns, and multi-account environments
- Experience building and improving CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and shared engineering tooling
- Good understanding of observability, security, secrets management, and operational controls
- Experience improving developer experience and engineering workflows across teams
- Strong collaborator with excellent systems thinking and technical judgement
- Desirable: AWS Organisations, Control Tower, SCPs, Team Topologies, FinOps, and enabling AI/ML workflows
Location: Manchester (Hybrid – 2 days per week in office)
If you’re a platform-minded senior engineer who wants to make a significant impact on how a high-performing team builds and ships software, we’d love to hear from you.
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