Platform Engineering Lead (Hiring Immediately)

The Platform Engineering Lead leads Flooid’s Platform Engineering team and shapes how our technology platforms enable product development at scale.

This role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management, focusing on enabling engineering teams to deliver reliable, secure and high‑quality software more efficiently.

The Platform Engineering lead guides the evolution of our cloud-native platform, improves developer experience, and ensures platform reliability and performance. You work closely with Software Engineering, SRE and Product teams, while supporting and developing a small, skilled team of platform engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Platform Engineering team, including day-to-day work allocation, goal setting, regular 1:1s and performance development.

• Define and deliver the platform engineering roadmap in collaboration with wider engineering leadership.

• Enable effective CI/CD and continuous deployment practices across engineering teams.

• Build and maintain an IDP that allows developers to deploy and manage services without manual intervention from Ops.

• Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to ensure consistent, repeatable and scalable environments.

• Own the reliability, availability and performance of core platform services, including monitoring, logging and incident learnings.

• Act as a technical change leader, challenging existing ways of working and promoting modern engineering practices.

• Coach and support engineers in the effective use of containers and Kubernetes-based platforms.

• Implement Shift Left security practices. Embed security practices early in the development lifecycle, working closely with SRE and security stakeholders.

• Represent Platform Engineering across engineering forums, sharing progress, risks and opportunities.

Requirements

A successful candidate will be a pro-active self-starter with an eye for detail, who collaborates effectively with business and technical people and looks for opportunities to innovate.

You will treat Infrastructure as a Product and will prioritise the developer experience.

The right candidate will be driven by finding creative solutions to problems and be willing to go into fresh territory to deliver high quality quickly.

You must have recent experience as an engineer within cloud-based technology and be comfortable with running an engineering team charged with building a platform ecosystem.

Essential

• Experience working in a Platform Engineering, DevOps or Infrastructure role within a cloud-based environment.
• Deep expertise in GCP (primarily) and Azure/AWS.

• Background in Java development or familiarity with Java build and delivery ecosystems.

• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container-based architectures.

• Proven experience leading or managing engineers, with a people‑centred approach to development and feedback.

• Practical experience with CI/CD tooling (e.g. Jenkins, ArgoCD or similar).

• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform and/or Ansible.

• Solid understanding of modern software architectures, including microservices, service meshes (Istio/Linkerd, ideally), and networking fundamentals.

• Experience working with monitoring and observability tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to varied audiences.

• A collaborative mindset and confidence working across teams and disciplines.

Desirable

• Experience supporting large or complex codebases, including monolithic architectures.

• Knowledge of service meshes and advanced Kubernetes networking concepts.

• Experience treating “platform” or “infrastructure” as a product, with a focus on user (developer) experience.

• Working with complex requirements in collaboration with business and technical roles to define priorities.

Benefits

At Flooid you will find a fun, professional and supportive environment where people genuinely care about the work they do and the customers they serve.

We value contribution over job titles, encourage openness and collaboration, move quickly, and believe in rolling up our sleeves to get great things done.

Salary: £85,000 - £110,000 depending on experience

Location: Hybrid. You must be UK based. You should be able to travel to the Birmingham, UK office once a week/a few times a month.

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