Lead Platform Engineer

Trust In Soda — United Kingdom · Posted ~2 days ago

Lead Remote £70000-£110000

Skills

AWS GCP Azure Kubernetes Helm Kops Service Mesh Istio Terraform Ansible GitOps GitHub Actions Jenkins OpenTelemetry Dynatrace Grafana Linux Red Hat Ubuntu Debian

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Summary

Join a major digital transformation program as a senior or lead platform engineer. You will support, optimize, and scale large cloud-native Kubernetes environments while working with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, and Linux technologies. The role offers remote-first working, certification support, and clear opportunities for continued progression.

Highlights

Work on large-scale cloud and Kubernetes platforms, receive company-supported professional certifications, and access strong pension, healthcare, flexible benefits, and structured career progression.

Description

💼 Senior/Lead/Managing Platform Engineer 👔 Consultancy/Govt 📍 London, Woking, Worthing 💵 £70-110k ⚠️SC Eligibility Required Do you want to work on one of the biggest K8s projects in Europe - one running over 400 Pods (and 140k Nodes) at any one time? Do you want to get AWS & CKA certified on company time whilst also using these tools day in day out in production environments? I am partnered with one of the world’s top tech consultancies who are spearheading a multi-year DevOps transformation at a top Govt department. The project aims to completely revolutionise the way the UK Government operates online and will create numerous public benefits including cutting waiting times, vastly improved CX and cost savings in the millions of pounds. They are now looking for Senior, Lead & Managing Platform Engineers to join their team and help with the ongoing support, optimisation and scaling of this project. Their ideal candidate would be an expert within: Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)Kubernetes (Helm, Kops, ServiceMesh, Istio)IaC (Terraform, Ansible)CI/CD (GitOps, Github Actions, Jenkins)Observability (OTel, Dynatrace, Grafana)Linux (RedHat, Ubuntu, Debian) What’s in it for you? Certification Scheme (AWS, CKA, Hashicorp)Uncapped Progressions (Just hit the criteria and you will continually climb the ranks)10% combined pensionPrivate Medical/DentalFlexi Benefits (Life Assurance, GIP, Dental etc.)Travel expenses to client siteRemote First Working (only onsite at client request) If you’re passionate about working with K8s at scale and keen to work on one of the country’s most high-profile digital transformations then please apply right away!