Lead Platform Engineer

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Senior/Lead Platform Engineer

Location: Newcastle, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool

Salary: £70,000 – £110,000

SC Eligibility Required

Join a leading tech consultancy on a multi-year DevOps transformation for a top UK Government department. You will support, optimise and scale a large Kubernetes platform with over 400 Pods and 140,000 Nodes.

Qualifications

• Cloud platforms: AWS, GCP, Azure
• Kubernetes: Helm, Kops, Service Mesh, Istio
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible
• CI/CD: GitOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins
• Observability: OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, Grafana
• Linux operating systems: RedHat, Ubuntu, Debian

Benefits

• Certification Scheme (AWS, CKA, HashiCorp)
• Uncapped Progression opportunities
• 10% combined pension
• Private Medical/Dental cover
• Flexi Benefits: Life Assurance, GIP, Dental, etc.
• Travel expenses to client site
• Remote First working model (on site only at client request)

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