Lead Platform Engineer

Lead Platform Engineer £100,000 - £120,000 Hybrid (London)The MissionCut dev-to-production lead time with seamless CI/CD and preview environmentsDesign "Golden Path" workflows so engineers ship features, not config filesAuto-scale GCP infrastructure to handle Black Friday and January travel peaksChampion SRE practices - define SLOs and error budgets for the booking flowArchitect data-sync pipelines with GDPR-compliant PII masking for dev environmentsOperationalise Vertex AI and Redis to power personalised search and dynamic pricingThe Tech StackWe''ll consider strong candidates from AWS or Azure backgrounds - GCP is where you''ll operate. The must-haves are:Kubernetes (GKE) Docker Terraform PHP (Symfony/Drupal) JavaScript Go Cloud SQL/MySQL Redis Nginx Cloud Load Balancing Varnish CDNs CloudflareBonus: GCP, BigQuery, Apigee, Vertex AIAbout YouProven leadership of Platform, DevOps, or SRE teams in high-volume e-commerce, travel, or fintechDeep Kubernetes and container orchestration experience with PHP/React workloadsStrong cloud fundamentals (IAM, VPCs, networking) - transferable from AWS or Azure to GCPScripting fluency in Bash, Python, or GoExperience managing high-traffic SQL databases and Redis caching strategiesA track record of data anonymisation workflows and dev-environment seedingWhat We Offer£100,000 - £120,000 salaryHybrid working (minimum 3 days in our London office) with flexible hoursEnhanced pension plan and life and critical illness insuranceMedicash health ..... full job details .....