We are excited to be working with a market-leading organisation undergoing a major technology transformation journey. With significant investment in cloud, platforms, and modern engineering practices, this is a fantastic opportunity to join at a pivotal moment.
This business is evolving from a traditional infrastructure environment into a modern, cloud-first ecosystem and they’re looking for someone to help lead that change, influence strategy, and bring teams along the journey.
What you will do
You’ll play a key role in driving platform engineering capability across the organisation, leading from the front both technically and strategically.
* Lead the design and delivery of cloud-based platforms in AWS
* Drive adoption of automation, CI/CD, and modern engineering practices
* Support the transformation of legacy workloads into containerised and cloud-native architectures
* Act as a technical leader and escalation point for complex platform challenges
* Mentor and coach engineers, helping raise capability across the team
* Influence standards, tooling, and best practices across the platform function
Responsibilities
* Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and reusable cloud platforms
* Implement and optimise CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling
* Define and enforce engineering standards, patterns, and documentation
* Lead on platform support, maintenance, and security compliance
* Implement monitoring, alerting, backup, and disaster recovery solutions
* Continuously improve performance, cost-efficiency, and scalability
* Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to engineers
* Support architectural decisions and solve complex technical challenges
What we are looking for
* Strong experience in platform engineering / DevOps environments
* Hands‑on experience with AWS (ideally also exposure to GCP)
* Strong knowledge of Terraform, Ansible, or similar automation tools
* Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines / GitOps environments
* Knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and microservices architectures
* Strong understanding of infrastructure, networking, and security principles
* Experience working in Agile / Scrum environments
Details
* Location: Northampton (hybrid – 2 days per week onsite)
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