Platform Engineering Lead Job at Birmingham, England, GB Full Time NEW

The Platform Engineering Lead leads Flooid’s Platform Engineering team and shapes how our technology platforms enable product development at scale.

This role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management, focusing on enabling engineering teams to deliver reliable, secure and high‑quality software more efficiently.

The Platform Engineering lead guides the evolution of our cloud-native platform, improves developer experience, and ensures platform reliability and performance. You work closely with Software Engineering, SRE and Product teams, while supporting and developing a small, skilled team of platform engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Platform Engineering team, including day-to-day work allocation, goal setting, regular 1:1s and performance development.
• Define and deliver the platform engineering roadmap in collaboration with wider engineering leadership.
• Enable effective CI/CD and continuous deployment practices across engineering teams.
• Build and maintain an IDP that allows developers to deploy and manage services without manual intervention from Ops.
• Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to ensure consistent, repeatable and scalable environments.
• Own the reliability, availability and performance of core platform services, including monitoring, logging and incident learnings.
• Act as a technical change leader, challenging existing ways of working and promoting modern engineering practices.
• Coach and support engineers in the effective use of containers and Kubernetes-based platforms.
• Implement “Shift Left” security practices. Embed security practices early in the development lifecycle, working closely with SRE and security stakeholders.
• Represent Platform Engineering across engineering forums, sharing progress, risks and opportunities.

Requirements

A successful candidate will be a pro-active self-starter with an eye for detail, who collaborates effectively with business and technical people and looks for opportunities to innovate.

You will treat “Infrastructure as a Product” and will prioritise the developer experience.

The right candidate will be driven by finding creative solutions to problems and be willing to go into fresh territory to deliver high quality quickly.

You must have recent experience as an engineer within cloud-based technology and be comfortable with running an engineering team charged with building a platform ecosystem.

Essential

• Experience working in a Platform Engineering, DevOps or Infrastructure role within a cloud-based environment.
• Deep expertise in GCP (primarily) and Azure/AWS.
• Background in Java development or familiarity with Java build and delivery ecosystems.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container-based architectures.
• Proven experience leading or managing engineers, with a people‑centred approach to development and feedback.
• Practical experience with CI/CD tooling (e.g. Jenkins, ArgoCD or similar).
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform and/or Ansible.
• Solid understanding of modern software architectures, including microservices, service meshes (Istio/Linkerd, ideally), and networking fundamentals.
• Experience working with monitoring and observability tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to varied audiences.
• A collaborative mindset and confidence working across teams and disciplines.

Desirable

• Experience supporting large or complex codebases, including monolithic architectures.
• Knowledge of service meshes and advanced Kubernetes networking concepts.
• Experience treating “platform” or “infrastructure” as a product, with a focus on user (developer) experience.
• Working with complex requirements in collaboration with business and technical roles to define priorities.

Benefits

At Flooid you will find a fun, professional and supportive environment where people genuinely care about the work they do and the customers they serve.

We value contribution over job titles, encourage openness and collaboration, move quickly, and believe in rolling up our sleeves to get great things done.

Salary: £85,000 – £110,000 depending on experience

Location: Hybrid. You must be UK based. You should be able to travel to the Birmingham, UK office once a week/a few times a month.

Hours: Full time, Monday to Friday.

• Flexible working – To help you manage your personal responsibilities and interests, we offer a range of flexi-working options, including hybrid working, as well as balancing your work responsibilities with other priorities, like picking up your children, caring for an aging parent or attending important events.
• Holidays – We operate a flexible holiday allowance scheme, we recommend employees take around 25-30 days holiday plus public bank holidays per year.
• A flexible pension – We help you prepare for the future with a salary sacrifice pension and annual personal pension reviews with our external partner
• Company sick pay – We offer peace of mind when you are ill with an enhanced Company Sick Pay policy
• Family benefits – We offer a range of support and benefits including enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity pay, enhanced paternity leave and shared parental leave
• Electric Car salary sacrifice scheme – An easy to manage and affordable way of leasing a zero-emission electric vehicle
• Online learning platform –We offer full access to Udemy for all employees, which offers a variety of technical, business and personal development e-learning courses.
• Financial, physical and wellbeing support – To help keep you at your best we provide our team with a health cash plan and if the worst should happen, we have a life assurance scheme
• Access to a discount platform – Treat yourself with discounts and rewards from hundreds of leading retailers, restaurants, and destinations
• Professional subscriptions – We offer reimbursement for professional subscriptions to a relevant institution if it’s required to perform your job role
• Charity giving – support a charity of your choice by gifting money directly from your payroll, saving the national insurance contributions you need to pay
• Cycle to work scheme – Make the most of this tax efficient scheme to improve your commute to work
• Rewarding long service – We provide gifts to our employees who achieve milestone years of service working as part of our team

If you believe you have the skills and experience to carry out this role, although feel you do not meet 100% of the criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway! Research suggests that certain groups of the population will apply for a role if they meet 60% of a roles requirements, while others will only apply if they hit 100% – we encourage applications from anyone with the skills, experience and attributes that will make you a great addition to both the role they are applying and the company overall.

Flooid Ltd. is an Equal Opportunities employer. We are dedicated to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Please ensure that your application remains a personal reflection of you. We do not use AI to assess applications – every resume is looked at by a real person.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.