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# Platform Engineering Lead/Platform Architect

- **Company:** Intuition IT Solutions Ltd
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £80,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, JIRA, Continuous Integration, OAuth, OpenID, Public Key Infrastructure, Runbook, Software Vulnerability Management, Datadog, Git Flow, Kubernetes, Terraform
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.careeraddict.com/post/114324751

## About the Role

* Hands-on AWS, Kubernetes/GitOps and Terraform at scale, with team or technical-lead experience.
 * Solid grounding in PKI, mTLS, OAuth2/OIDC, and network and edge security.
 * Experience running production platforms, including DR and incident management.
 * Experience writing architecture decisions and presenting them to governance boards.
 * CI/CD expertise and a pragmatic approach to controls in a regulated setting.
 * Clear communicator across security, architecture and vendor stakeholders.
 * Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering.

*Desirable*

 * Financial services or payments experience.
 * Message-broker and observability tooling experience.

## Description

* *Lead and mentor* a small team of platform engineers; set priorities, review designs and PRs, hire and onboard.
 * *Take the platform live:* own production readiness, DR testing, pen-test and vulnerability remediation.
 * *Run the platform:* AWS, EKS, Terraform, GitOps, policy enforcement, messaging and observability, with runbooks and incident ownership.
 * *Own vendor connectivity and security:* private and mTLS integrations, certificate life cycle and identity, working with vendor technical teams.
 * *Own architecture decisions:* write and defend ADRs at architecture review boards.
 * *Set CI/CD and promotion standards:* audited pipelines and release gates, agreed with central engineering.
 * *Plan and report:* Jira backlog, status reporting, cost estimates; raise risks early.
 * *Support delivery partners* onboarding new services onto the platform.