Job Description
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:
£50,000 - 60,000 + up to 15% bonus
- Contract:
Permanent