Head of Platform Engineering

Head of Platform Engineering
£115,000-£130,000 + Bonus
Cambridge, UK - 2-3 Days Per Week (within 1 hr 30 commute)
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:
• 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 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
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed