Platform Engineering Lead/Platform Architect
Job Description
- *Lead and mentor* a small team of platform engineers; set priorities, review designs and PRs, hire and onboard.
- *Take the platform live:* own production readiness, DR testing, pen-test and vulnerability remediation.
- *Run the platform:* AWS, EKS, Terraform, GitOps, policy enforcement, messaging and observability, with runbooks and incident ownership.
- *Own vendor connectivity and security:* private and mTLS integrations, certificate life cycle and identity, working with vendor technical teams.
- *Own architecture decisions:* write and defend ADRs at architecture review boards.
- *Set CI/CD and promotion standards:* audited pipelines and release gates, agreed with central engineering.
- *Plan and report:* Jira backlog, status reporting, cost estimates; raise risks early.
- *Support delivery partners* onboarding new services onto the platform.
*Essential*
- Hands-on AWS, Kubernetes/GitOps and Terraform at scale, with team or technical-lead experience.
- Solid grounding in PKI, mTLS, OAuth2/OIDC, and network and edge security.
- Experience running production platforms, including DR and incident management.
- Experience writing architecture decisions and presenting them to governance boards.
- CI/CD expertise and a pragmatic approach to controls in a regulated setting.
- Clear communicator across security, architecture and vendor stakeholders.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering.
*Desirable*
- Financial services or payments experience.
- Message-broker and observability tooling experience.
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