Lead Platform Engineer AWS

Lead Platform Engineer

Remote - With visits to Leeds office

Our talented people are creating the technology of the future. From scheduling to maintenance to keeping people safe, 2.7 million people are helped by our software daily. Technology makes it possible; people make it happen and you could be part of that. The Tracsis Group has grown rapidly, diversifying into related transport technologies, and successfully executing a strategy that has seen it make a total of seventeen acquisitions. Today Tracsis is a leading provider of software, hardware, data analytics/GIS and services for the rail, traffic data and wider transport industries. The Group has c.550 permanent employees serving its growing customer base from offices in the UK, Ireland and the US.

The Role

We're looking for an experienced Lead Platform Engineer to help design, build and operate our AWS-based platform. As a lead technical contributor within our Platform Engineering function, you'll play a key role in shaping the capabilities that underpin our strategic objectives across Developer Experience, Service Reliability, and Business Agility.

You’ll work primarily with AWS (EKS), alongside the CNCF ecosystem, Istio service mesh, ArgoCD, Terraform & Crossplane, and GitLab CI/CD. Experience with GKE or Azure is a plus. You’ll need solid skills in at least one modern language (Python, Go, Java or C#) and strong Linux administration.

Key Technologies

Observability: Grafana stack, Thanos, Loki, Tempo, Jaeger
Security: HashiCorp Vault, IAM, policy-as-code
FinOps and cost optimisation

What You Will Do

Owning technical strategy and architecture for the platform
Driving incident management, reliability, observability and on-call production ownership
Mentoring and motivating colleagues to raise the technical bar
Improving developer experience and working hand-in-glove with the developer community
Building secure, observable and scalable cloud-native platforms with self-service concepts at scale
Living an “automate everything” philosophy while keeping a close eye on cost (FinOps)

What You'll Bring

5–8+ years in platform, SRE or DevOps roles
Strong production experience with EKS (primary), Istio service mesh and GitOps, with exposure to GKE or Azure
Hands-on expertise with Terraform, Crossplane and GitLab CI/CD
Solid Linux administration skills and understanding of self-service concepts at scale
Strong focus on security (Vault, IAM), observability (Grafana/Thanos/Loki/Tempo/Jaeger) and FinOp
Comfortable with on-call and production ownership
A pragmatic engineering mindset with clear ownership, the ability to motivate others, and a drive to automate everything

Our values We’re guided by four core values that shape how we work and collaborate: Progression – continually improving and developing Integrity – doing the right thing, always Collaboration – working together to achieve more Ownership – taking responsibility and delivering with accountability

Benefits

Flexible working hours to support work-life balance
25 days holiday + bank holidays
Competitive salary
Udemy Licence for learning and development
Bupa Medical Health care
Life assurance (3x basic salary)
Enhanced Parental Leave
2 volunteering days per year
Tusker Car Scheme
Cycle to work scheme

Our process is designed for us to understand your skills and experience and to give you the opportunity to find out more about the role, as well as the company. We are committed to building a diverse workforce. Even if you do not tick all the boxes, we would still love to hear from you! If you require any adjustments or additional support during the application and interview process do not hesitate to get in touch.

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