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) Salary: £60,000 – £75,000 up to 15% bonus Contract: Permanent If this sounds like you apply below!