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
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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
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