Platform Engineering Lead


Company:	Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary:	£90,000 to £100,000 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	City of London, EC2V 6DN
Working pattern:	Hybrid - 2 days remote
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	23 Oct 2026
Closing date:	22 Nov 2026

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Role Summary

Please read, and if you are a good match, call or email Lorenz Pasch at Hays Recruitment ASAP, contact details below.

Platform Engineering Team Lead, deep expertise across GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, automation and platform engineering, combined with a passion for building scalable self-service platforms, and either team leadership experience, or a desire to develop into a Lead role.

Lorenz Pasch | Hays Technology | 07863107173 |

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Platform Engineering Team Lead

London | Hybrid | £100,000+

I'm working with a global fintech business looking for a Platform Engineering Team Lead to take ownership of a talented seven-person engineering team and help shape the next stage of its cloud platform.

This is a genuinely hands-on leadership role. You'll work across GCP, Kubernetes/GKE and Infrastructure as Code, helping scale an established, high-availability payments platform while leading platform engineering for a new AI-driven decisioning product.

The opportunity

The business is investing heavily in evolving its Platform Engineering capability, with a particular focus on Developer Experience, self-service and treating the platform as a product.

You'll have the opportunity to:

Lead, mentor and develop a distributed team of 7 Platform Engineers, with scope for further growth

Remain technically involved across GCP, Kubernetes/GKE and Terraform

Lead platform engineering work supporting a new AI decisioning platform

Help scale an established global payments platform where security, resilience and availability are critical

Shape architecture and challenge technical decisions

Drive greater automation, self-service and Infrastructure as Code

Improve Developer Experience and make it easier for software engineers to build and deploy

Influence the longer-term direction of the Platform Engineering function

Technical credibility is key - you will need strong experience across:

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Kubernetes

Terraform / Infrastructure as Code

Designing and operating secure, highly available production environments

Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE or Cloud Infrastructure

Technical leadership, mentoring or supporting other engineers

Experience within payments, fintech or financial services would be valuable, particularly where you've worked with highly available or security-critical systems, but it isn't essential.

You also don't need to be a long-established Engineering Manager.

This could be an excellent move for a Senior, Staff or Principal Platform Engineer who is already the person others turn to for technical direction and mentoring, and now wants to take genuine ownership of a team while remaining close to the technology.

Why consider it?

This isn't a role where you'll inherit a finished platform and simply keep the lights on.

You'll have the opportunity to lead a strong engineering team, influence architecture, build a more mature internal platform and help establish the foundations for a new AI product, while developing your own career as a technical leader.

Salary: £100,000+, with flexibility for exceptional candidatesLocation: London, hybrid

Interested? Get in touch for a confidential conversation.

Lorenz Pasch | Hays Technology | 07863107173 |

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