Lead Platform Engineer

Salary and benefits: from £75,000 (dependant upon experience) plus an indicative bonus range of 16-32%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more.

• Build, operate and continuously improve secure, reliable and reusable internal developer platform capabilities for Pensions & Savings.
• Create and evolve golden paths and automated onboarding journeys that help engineering teams onboard new and existing workloads, adopt approved developer tooling and deliver software consistently.
• Administer and improve GitHub and GitHub Copilot capabilities, including organisation, team and repository onboarding, access, policies, rulesets and reusable workflows.
• Develop robust platform automation using appropriate combinations of GitHub Actions, APIs, infrastructure as code and scripting, replacing manual or inconsistent processes wherever practical.
• Support secure artefact and container management, including integration with build and delivery workflows and appropriate controls for access, provenance, retention and vulnerability management.
• Contribute to developer portal and self-service capabilities that improve discoverability, documentation, service ownership and access to standard platform journeys.
• Embed security, identity, governance, compliance and observability into platform services and onboarding processes, while maintaining the operational health and auditability of enterprise developer tooling.
• Partner with application, product, architecture, security, risk and operations teams to resolve complex issues, support effective use of tools such as Jira and Confluence across the software development lifecycle, and improve platform capabilities through documentation, enablement and feedback.

Location: Hybrid: based at any of our UK offices Birmingham, London, Telford, Edinburgh with time spent working in the office and at home

Flexible working: All roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can

Job Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 15th October

This senior, hands-on role will shape and operate the orchestration and developer platform solutions supporting our Pensions & Savings technology services. You will lead delivery across developer tooling, automation and reusable workflows-including GitHub, GitHub Copilot, developer portals, artefact and container management, observability and cloud integration-while partnering across application, architecture, security, risk and technology teams to provide secure, governed and scalable developer experiences.

• Strong hands-on experience in platform engineering, DevOps or developer tooling, with a track record of creating reliable automation, reusable workflows and self-service capabilities.
• Practical experience with GitHub and modern software delivery practices, including repositories, access controls, CI/CD and secure development workflows.
• A security-first approach to operating enterprise tooling, with a sound understanding of identity and access management, privileged administration, secrets, platform policies and auditability.
• Familiarity with internal developer platforms, developer portals and golden-path approaches, together with a practical understanding of cloud environments and related capabilities such as artefact and container management, observability, AI-enabled developer tooling, Jira and Confluence.
• The ability to take ownership of complex technical work, make and explain sound engineering decisions, and collaborate effectively with application, architecture, security, risk and operations teams.