Kainos

Lead Platform Engineer (AWS)

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7 days ago
Remote, United Kingdom or Birmingham, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead teams in designing, automating, building, managing, and optimizing modern digital service platforms.
  • Design, test, monitor, operate, enhance, and improve platform services in production environments.
  • Use continuous delivery, automation, configuration management, and platform orchestration techniques to release operationally ready software.
  • Build and support digital service platforms, including architecture, design, estimation, planning, and MVP iteration.
  • Apply Site Reliability Engineering tools, techniques, and processes for monitoring, modernization, reliability improvement, and cost optimization.
  • Use AWS SaaS and PaaS offerings to solve business problems.
  • Provide technical leadership, interact with customers, communicate technical designs, and make transparent technical decisions.
  • Mentor colleagues, share knowledge through communities of practice, and foster a DevOps culture.
  • Manage, coach, and develop a small number of staff, including employee performance and career development.

Requirements

  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain technical designs to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Proven experience leading teams and supporting a DevOps culture across complex delivery or support projects.
  • SC Clearance is required.
  • Significant expertise designing, building, testing, automating, monitoring, operating, enhancing, or improving modern digital service platforms in production.
  • Experience with continuous delivery, automation, and platform orchestration using multiple configuration management tools.
  • Demonstrable experience building or supporting modern digital service platforms, including architecture, design, estimation, planning, and MVP iteration using a modern agile approach.
  • Experience championing Site Reliability Engineering tooling, techniques, and processes.
  • Experience using AWS SaaS or PaaS offerings to solve business problems.
  • AWS public cloud certification is desirable.
  • Certification in a specialization such as Kubernetes CKAD is desirable.

Benefits

  • People-first culture with support for learning, development, and career growth.
  • Opportunities to share knowledge internally and across the wider industry.
  • Diversity, equity, inclusion, and recruitment accommodations are supported.

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1,001-5,000 employees
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