Platform Engineering Team Lead

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Requirements

  • Confident, decisive and supportive leader with experience managing Cloud / Platform engineering teams
  • A natural ability to lead cross functional teams, working with engineering teams, QA and other stakeholders
  • A strong communicator who can bridge the gap between technical and non-technical audiences
  • Deep understanding of modern cloud / platform engineering practices and scalable system architectures
  • Experience driving a culture around reliability, performance and continuous improvement
  • Expertise across Azure, Cloud technologies and the suite of tools commonly used in Cloud / Platform Engineering
  • Proven experience working & scaling the platform to support a fast paced containerised environment

What the job involves

  • As the Cloud Platform team scales, we are evolving our infrastructure to meet the diverse needs of a global engineering effort
  • We aren’t just building a platform; we are redefining the developer experience and pushing the technical limits of what cloud infrastructure can achieve
  • Champion a culture of continuous improvement, providing meaningful mentorship and constructive feedback that helps engineers grow
  • Driving team performance by resolving bottlenecks, fostering accountability, and sustaining high engagement to ensure consistent delivery & resource efficiency
  • Driving the adoption of AI within the team, ranging from day to day operations to large scale projects
  • Foster open, transparent communication across remote, hybrid, and in-person environments
  • Stay hands on in Cloud and Platform engineering, leading by example at a technical level
  • Defining and enforcing platform engineering best practices that ensure consistency, scalability and operational excellence across the organisation
  • Partner with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and QA to align strategy and turn ideas into well-executed outcomes
  • Contribute to product decisions, bringing a platform perspective that balances speed, quality and scalability
  • Proactively identify and mitigate risk before they come blockers
  • Embed DevSecOps principles; ensuring security, monitoring, compliance, and automation are built in from the start

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Company: Deepstreamtech
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Location: London
Job Description:

Requirements

  • Confident, decisive and supportive leader with experience managing Cloud / Platform engineering teams
  • A natural ability to lead cross functional teams, working with engineering teams, QA and other stakeholders
  • A strong communicator who can bridge the gap between technical and non-technical audiences
  • Deep understanding of modern cloud / platform engineering practices and scalable system architectures
  • Experience driving a culture around reliability, performance and continuous improvement
  • Expertise across Azure, Cloud technologies and the suite of tools commonly used in Cloud / Platform Engineering
  • Proven experience working & scaling the platform to support a fast paced containerised environment

What the job involves

  • As the Cloud Platform team scales, we are evolving our infrastructure to meet the diverse needs of a global engineering effort
  • We aren’t just building a platform; we are redefining the developer experience and pushing the technical limits of what cloud infrastructure can achieve
  • Champion a culture of continuous improvement, providing meaningful mentorship and constructive feedback that helps engineers grow
  • Driving team performance by resolving bottlenecks, fostering accountability, and sustaining high engagement to ensure consistent delivery & resource efficiency
  • Driving the adoption of AI within the team, ranging from day to day operations to large scale projects
  • Foster open, transparent communication across remote, hybrid, and in-person environments
  • Stay hands on in Cloud and Platform engineering, leading by example at a technical level
  • Defining and enforcing platform engineering best practices that ensure consistency, scalability and operational excellence across the organisation
  • Partner with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and QA to align strategy and turn ideas into well-executed outcomes
  • Contribute to product decisions, bringing a platform perspective that balances speed, quality and scalability
  • Proactively identify and mitigate risk before they come blockers
  • Embed DevSecOps principles; ensuring security, monitoring, compliance, and automation are built in from the start

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Posted: May 20th, 2026