Lead Platform Engineer in London

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Job Description
Lead Platform Engineer | £100,000 – £120,000 | Hybrid (London)
The Mission
Cut dev-to-production lead time with seamless CI/CD and preview environments Design "Golden Path" workflows so engineers ship features, not config files Auto-scale GCP infrastructure to handle Black Friday and January travel peaks Champion SRE practices — define SLOs and error budgets for the booking flow Architect data-sync pipelines with GDPR-compliant PII masking for dev environments Operationalise Vertex AI and Redis to power personalised search and dynamic pricing
The Tech Stack
We'll consider strong candidates from AWS or Azure backgrounds — GCP is where you'll operate. The must-haves are:
Kubernetes (GKE) · Docker · Terraform · PHP (Symfony/Drupal) · JavaScript · Go · Cloud SQL/MySQL · Redis · Nginx · Cloud Load Balancing · Varnish · CDNs · Cloudflare
Bonus: GCP, BigQuery, Apigee, Vertex AI
About You
Proven leadership of Platform, DevOps, or SRE teams in high-volume e-commerce, travel, or fintech Deep Kubernetes and container orchestration experience with PHP/React workloads Strong cloud fundamentals (IAM, VPCs, networking) — transferable from AWS or Azure to GCP Scripting fluency in Bash, Python, or Go Experience managing high-traffic SQL databases and Redis caching strategies A track record of data anonymisation workflows and dev-environment seeding
What We Offer
£100,000 – £120,000 salary Hybrid working (minimum 3 days in our London office) with flexible hours Enhanced pension plan & life and critical illness insurance Medicash health plan Season ticket loan & cycle scheme Supplier social events Dog-friendly office
Interested? Apply here. We'd love to hear from you.
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Location:
London
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Engineer, Lead, Engineering, Oil And Gas

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