Platform Engineering Lead
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Platform Engineering Lead at Flooid: Birmingham, United Kingdom; Hybrid; Full time; IT; Engineering Manager. JobGrid adds normalized role facts, source context, and a path to the employer application page so candidates can compare the listing before applying.
- Location and workplace: Birmingham, United Kingdom, Hybrid
- Role classification: IT, Engineering Manager, Full time
- Source freshness: checked by JobGrid on 2026-05-28.
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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.