Head of Platform Engineering

Head of Platform Engineering<br />£115,000-£130,000 + Bonus<br />Cambridge, UK - 2-3 Days Per Week (within 1 hr 30 commute)<br />No Sponsorship Option We’re hiring a hands-on Head of Platform Engineering to lead the evolution of a cloud-native platform powering highly secure, production-grade environments in a scaling technology business operating within regulated markets.

This is a senior leadership role with direct ownership of platform delivery, reliability, automation, security, operational readiness and engineering standards across a modern AWS and Kubernetes estate.

You’ll lead a small team of platform and infrastructure engineers while remaining technically close to architecture, delivery and operational decision-making.

Key responsibilities include:<br />• Leading platform engineering strategy, roadmap and delivery<br />• Evolving AWS / Kubernetes-based infrastructure and GitOps operating models<br />• Driving production readiness, reliability, resilience and observability<br />• Building scalable and repeatable customer deployment environments<br />• Establishing secure CI/CD, release governance and operational controls<br />• Improving platform automation, developer experience and operational efficiency<br />• Supporting regulated production environments with strong security and auditability standards<br />Tech environment includes:

AWS | Kubernetes / EKS | Terraform | GitOps | Argo CD | GitHub Actions | CI/CD | Observability | Cloud Security We’re looking for someone with:<br />✔ Proven experience leading platform engineering, SRE or cloud infrastructure teams<br />✔ Strong hands-on AWS and Kubernetes expertise<br />✔ Experience operating production-grade cloud platforms at scale<br />✔ Strong understanding of GitOps, automation and release governance<br />✔ Background in fintech, SaaS or regulated environments preferred<br />✔ Ability to balance pace, pragmatism, resilience and engineering quality in a growing business Ideal for someone who enjoys building mature engineering capability within a fast-moving, commercially scaling environment