Salary: £110,000 - 125,000 per year Requirements: Strong familiarity with the Kubernetes ecosystem Hands-on cloud engineering experience Experience with cluster add-ons, networking (Cilium), policy engines (Kyverno), and autoscaling (Karpenter) Capability to build out Namespace-as-a-Service capabilities Ability to review and challenge Kubernetes-related architectural proposals Proficiency in debugging complex issues across the Kubernetes stack Experience reviewing pull requests in Python and Golang that interact with the Kubernetes API Familiarity with AWS EKS, Cilium, Kyverno, Karpenter, Python, Golang, Kanban, CNCF Stack, GitOps / CD, Policy as Code, IaC, and Observability Visible presence in the cloud native community through open source contributions, community engagement, or conference speaking (preferred but not essential) Responsibilities: Lead a distributed engineering team and support their development Guide the day-to-day technical direction for the platform Define and refine the product vision using customer feedback, stakeholder needs, and market insight Set priorities and maintain a clear backlog Collaborate closely with application developers, product owners, security and data teams Contribute to enterprise architecture reviews to maintain engineering quality and compliance Technologies: API AWS Cloud GitOps Golang Support Kanban Kubernetes Python Security More: We are a leading global financial services business with an exciting opportunity for a Platform Lead / Engineering Manager to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will play a central part in shaping and extending our internal developer platform, which is crucial for how our engineers build, deploy, and operate applications across the organization. You will have the opportunity to influence developer experience, security, and scalability while working closely with various teams to enhance our engineering capabilities. last updated 9 week of 2026