Head of Platform Engineering

Head of Platform Engineering £120,000-£140,000 + Bonus London hybrid, with Cambridge Travel 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, reporting directly into the CTO. 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: • Leading platform engineering strategy, roadmap and delivery • Evolving AWS / Kubernetes-based infrastructure and GitOps operating models • Driving production readiness, reliability, resilience and observability • Building scalable and repeatable customer deployment environments • Establishing secure CI/CD, release governance and operational controls • Improving platform automation, developer experience and operational efficiency • Supporting regulated production environments with strong security and auditability standards Tech environment includes: AWS | Kubernetes / EKS | Terraform | GitOps | Argo CD | GitHub Actions | CI/CD | Observability | Cloud Security We’re looking for someone with: ✔ Proven experience leading platform engineering, SRE or cloud infrastructure teams ✔ Strong hands-on AWS and Kubernetes (EKS) expertise ✔ Experience operating production-grade cloud platforms at scale ✔ Strong understanding of GitOps, automation and release governance ✔ Background in fintech, SaaS or regulated environments preferred ✔ 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.