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Lead Platform Engineer

Lead Platform Engineer

On site

London, United kingdom

£ 150,000 /year

Senior

Full Time

23-11-2025

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Skills

DevOps Kubernetes Databases Azure AWS GCP Redis Kafka Terraform

Job Specifications

Lead Platform Engineer

FinTech AI Startup

London (fully onsite)

£120-150k + Bonus

Are you keen to work for a rapidly scaling fintech startup who's AI-native, open-source technology is revolutionising banking infrastructure?

Are you keen to work with the most cutting edge technologies in the DevOps space, withing a genuinely AI first prod enviornment?

My client is creating the first open-source “Thin Ledger” to replace legacy core systems with a modern, event-driven platform powered by Golang, Kafka and multi-region Databases.

They are now seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to own platform engineering for a mission-critical operating environment, ensuring resilience, security, and compliance at scale.

Required Skills:

• Deep experience with multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure

• Event Streaming (Kafka)

• Distributed Systems (CockroachDB, YugabyteDB, Redis)

• GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux)

• IaC (Terraform)

• Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Strong SRE mindset (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets)

In return they would be offering a competitive salary along with a number of great benefits:

Benefits:

• Bonus

• Private Healthcare

• 25 days AL

• Matched Pension

• L&D Fund

• Team regularly speaks and SRE/K8s conferences

• Working alongisde industry leaders within SRE

If you’re excited to build resilient, secure infrastructure for regulated, high-scale environments and want to work at the cutting edge of AI-powered operations, apply now!

About the Company

Community-led, diverse in behaviour, for the digital tech brave. We are Trust in SODA, the digital tech recruitment specialists. We empower and build diverse communities that represent the digital tech world we live in. We are proud to be officially B Corp certified, joining a global network of organisations dedicated to using their platform as a force for positive change. Our consultants focus on delivering talent solutions across Software Engineering, DevOps, Data, Cloud & Infrastructure and Creative. Our SODA Squad op... Know more