Platform Lead (AWS)

TL;DR

Platform Lead (AWS/Terraform): Leading the platform engineering function to build tooling, infrastructure, and paved roads for product squads with an accent on reliability, scalability, and developer experience. Focus on defining production readiness standards, evolving reference architectures, and scaling operational practices like SLOs and incident management.

Location: Hybrid (London, East Midlands, and around the UK)

Company

hirify.global provides a dedicated discount service and benefits for emergency services, healthcare, and social care workers.

What you will do

• Lead and develop the Platform Engineering team to create an environment where engineers and product squads can thrive.
• Own the platform roadmap, ensuring it delivers clear value to product teams and supports business growth.
• Act as the trusted technical authority for platform and infrastructure decisions across the engineering organization.
• Set practical production readiness standards covering reliability, observability, security, scalability, and cost.
• Build and evolve paved-road platform solutions, reference architectures, and reusable Terraform-based tooling.
• Embed strong operational practices, including SLOs, alerting, and effective incident management.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading a Platform, Infrastructure, or SRE function within a product-led engineering organization.
• Deep, hands-on expertise with AWS across compute, networking, storage, serverless, and security.
• Strong experience with Terraform for building reusable infrastructure-as-code.
• Experience defining and operating SLOs, observability standards, and incident management at scale.
• Track record of mentoring engineers and building high-performing teams.
• Must be based in the UK (London, East Midlands, or surrounding areas).

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working model.
• 25 days holiday plus public holidays, with a birthday day off and buy/sell options.
• Company bonus scheme and company-funded private medical insurance.
• Learning and development opportunities.
• Modern office space in Cossington with an onsite gym, games area, and chill-out zones.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and sick pay.