Job Specifications
DevOps/Platform Technical Lead
London • Hybrid (3 days onsite) • £80–100k + benefits
Shape the DevOps strategy of a fast‑growing London start‑up.
We’re partnered with a high‑growth, ~40‑person tech company working with major global brands in the consumer/data/SaaS space. Their engineering team is small, collaborative and ambitious — and they’re looking for a Senior DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer to take ownership of their AWS infrastructure and set the direction for how they build, scale and secure their platform.
This is a rare opportunity to be the senior DevOps voice in the room, working closely with the CTO and Engineering Manager, and mentoring their current DevOps engineer.
Why this role is exciting
Total ownership of their AWS environment and infrastructure roadmap
Direct influence on technical strategy, resilience, scalability and cost optimisation
A genuinely strategic role, not just “keeping the lights on”
High impact in a low‑ego, high‑trust engineering culture
Work closely with the CTO, shaping long‑term infrastructure decisions
Greenfield improvements across observability, CI/CD, security and Kubernetes
What you’ll be leading
Own and evolve their AWS estate (EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda, IAM, VPC etc.)
Lead Terraform across complex, production‑grade workloads
Manage and harden Kubernetes (EKS) clusters + microservices
Re‑architect CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)
Build a full observability stack — Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch/OpenTelemetry
Drive cloud security best practice (IAM, network security, secrets, vuln scanning) as they move toward SOC
What they’re missing today and where you fit in
A proactive DevOps leader who can turn a task list into a clear roadmap
Proper monitoring, alerting and cost‑management across 100–200+ AWS services
A senior engineer confident making decisions and reducing dependency on the CTO
Their tech environment
AWS‑centric with heavy Kubernetes (EKS)
Terraform, Docker, GitHub Actions
RDS, MongoDB, Elasticsearch
Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry
Strong scripting in Python / Go / Bash (JS/TS helpful)
Who they want to meet
Experienced DevOps / SRE / Platform engineers running production systems
Deep AWS + Kubernetes expertise
Someone who talks in terms of strategy, roadmaps, optimisation, not just tools
Comfortable in growing, fast‑paced start‑up environments
Location & package
Central London office
Hybrid working: Mon/Tues/Thurs onsite
£80–100k base salary + benefits
About the Company
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