Lead Platform Engineer

Public Sector Resourcing • London Britain Township, PA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a Lead Platform Engineer for a 6-month contract. This role operates as a technical leader for platform capability, working closely with Principal Developers, delivery teams, DevOps colleagues, security specialists, and service teams. The goal is to help shape, build, and manage self-service platforms that enable teams to deliver high-quality digital services safely, consistently, and at pace. The role requires proven experience leading platform, DevOps, infrastructure, or software engineering work in a complex environment, operating to agile and product-centred principles. Collaboration with technical colleagues to turn common engineering needs into reusable platform capabilities, standards, and patterns is key. The Lead Platform Engineer will take technical decisions in line with the overarching strategic direction, ensure platform standards are applied consistently, and stay close to emerging technologies and modern engineering practices. This includes identifying, testing, and championing adoption where they improve developer experience, security, reliability, sustainability, or value for money. Alongside delivery, the role will support broader technology modernisation and cross-cutting engineering improvement, such as developing self-service routes to approved tooling and infrastructure, improving CI/CD and release practices, strengthening observability and operational readiness, reducing duplication, improving automated testing and quality gates, and creating paved paths for secure and maintainable services.

Requirements

• Significant hands-on experience designing, operating and improving Microsoft Azure platform services in a complex environment, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containerisation, observability, automated testing and secure cloud infrastructure.
• Strong software-engineering and coding experience with C#.NET, RESTful APIs and Git, including building web or CLI applications and creating secure, maintainable reusable libraries, components or automation.
• Proven technical leadership of platform, DevOps, infrastructure or software-engineering work, including designing reusable self-service capabilities and influencing, coaching and coordinating colleagues across multiple technical teams without relying on formal line-management authority.
• SC Clearance is an essential requirement; must be willing & eligible to undergo checks.
• Willingness to undergo SC clearance checks.

Nice To Haves

• Preference may be given to candidates who hold active security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Acting as a technical leader for platform engineering, taking localised decisions in line with our overarching strategic direction and orchestrating platform work across teams and services.
• Understanding the needs of developers, service teams, and end users, and using those needs to shape self-service platform capabilities, reusable patterns, and support models.
• Maintaining a strong focus on benefits, outcomes, value for money, and sustainable adoption when prioritising platform improvements and technology modernisation activity.
• Ensuring teams have the skills, guidance, documentation, and support needed to use platform services effectively, including coaching, pairing, mentoring, and recommending learning or training areas.
• Overseeing knowledge transfer between Principal Developers, platform, development, DevOps, security, and operational teams, ensuring platform decisions align with departmental standards, security expectations, and service management needs.
• Leading improvements to platform ways of working, including platform management, governance, lifecycle planning, observability, automation, technical debt reduction, and the introduction of changes at a sustainable pace.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed