Lead Platform Engineer

Lead Platform Engineer Lead Platform Engineer – Manchester / HybridSalary up to £100,000 + excellent benefitsSC cleared or SC eligible candidates requiredWork on large scale cloud platforms supporting critical UK public sector services ABOUT THE CLIENT Our client is a global technology consultancy delivering secure digital transformation programmes across the UK public sector. Their engineering teams design and operate modern cloud platforms that power critical government services used by millions of citizens every day. Due to continued growth across multiple national programmes, they are looking to hire experienced Lead Platform Engineers to join their expanding engineering capability. THE BENEFITS Salary up to £100,000 plus benefitsFlexible model with office and client travelClear technical career progression and leadership pathwaysAccess to industry recognised certifications and trainingOpportunity to work on large scale national digital transformation programmesStrong engineering culture with knowledge sharing and collaborationFlexible benefits package and wellbeing support THE LEAD PLATFORM ENGINEER ROLE As a Lead Platform Engineer, you will work within agile engineering teams designing and building secure, scalable cloud platforms for major UK public sector organisations. You will help deliver enterprise scale infrastructure platforms that enable development teams to build and deploy secure digital services. Typical responsibilities include: Designing and improving cloud infrastructure platformsBuilding Infrastructure as Code using TerraformSupporting container platforms using Kubernetes and DockerDeveloping CI/CD pipelines to automate delivery and deploymentImproving platform monitoring, reliability and observabilityProviding technical leadership and mentoring engineers across delivery teams LEAD PLATFORM ENGINEER ESSENTIAL SKILLS Strong AWS cloud platform engineering experienceInfrastructure as Code experience using TerraformContainer technologies such as Kubernetes and DockerStrong Linux engineering and scripting experienceExperience building CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab or similar toolsExperience supporting large scale production cloud platformsAbility to provide technical leadership within engineering teamsCandidates must be SC cleared or eligible to obtain SC clearance. TO BE CONSIDERED Please either apply through this advert or emailing me directly via kelly.harvey@searchability.com. For further information please call me: 0203 854 0120 / 07889 589 648. By applying for this role, you give express consent for us to process and submit (subject to required skills) your application to our client in conjunction with this vacancy only. KEY SKILLS Lead Platform Engineer, Senior Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, CI/CD, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure as Code, NSD