Platform Engineering Lead

Flooid

Platform Engineering Lead managing the cloud-native platform engineering team at Flooid. Enabling engineering teams to deliver reliable, secure software while enhancing developer experience.

Posted 5/18/2026full-timeBirmingham • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSenior💰 £85,000 - £110,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJavaJenkinsKubernetesMicroservicesPrometheusTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible working – To help you manage your personal responsibilities and interests, we offer a range of flexi-working options, including hybrid working, as well as balancing your work responsibilities with other priorities, like picking up your children, caring for an aging parent or attending important events.
Holidays – We operate a flexible holiday allowance scheme, we recommend employees take around 25-30 days holiday plus public bank holidays per year.
A flexible pension – We help you prepare for the future with a salary sacrifice pension and annual personal pension reviews with our external partner
Company sick pay – We offer peace of mind when you are ill with an enhanced Company Sick Pay policy
Family benefits – We offer a range of support and benefits including enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity pay, enhanced paternity leave and shared parental leave
Electric Car salary sacrifice scheme – An easy to manage and affordable way of leasing a zero-emission electric vehicle
Online learning platform – We offer full access to Udemy for all employees, which offers a variety of technical, business and personal development e-learning courses.
Financial, physical and wellbeing support – To help keep you at your best we provide our team with a health cash plan and if the worst should happen, we have a life assurance scheme
Access to a discount platform – Treat yourself with discounts and rewards from hundreds of leading retailers, restaurants, and destinations
Professional subscriptions – We offer reimbursement for professional subscriptions to a relevant institution if it’s required to perform your job role
Charity giving – support a charity of your choice by gifting money directly from your payroll, saving the national insurance contributions you need to pay
Cycle to work scheme – Make the most of this tax efficient scheme to improve your commute to work
Rewarding long service – We provide gifts to our employees who achieve milestone years of service working as part of our team

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Hard Skills & Tools

Platform EngineeringDevOpsInfrastructureGCPAzureAWSJavaKubernetesCI/CDInfrastructure as Code

Soft Skills

leadershipcoachingcommunicationcollaborationpeople-centred approachgoal settingperformance developmenttechnical change leadershipproblem-solvingfeedback