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🏷️ Title: Lead Platform Engineer 👫 Department: Engineering, reporting to the CPTO 💰 Salary: £90,000 - £115,000 (depending on experience and seniority) 🎁 Benefits & Culture: Lottie’s careers page here https://careers.lottie.org/. Lottie’s tech careers page here https://lottiehq.notion.site/join-lottie-tech 📈 Equity: A very generous EMI share offering. 🌴 https://emojipedia.org/palm-tree Holiday: 26 days + bank holidays. 💗 https://emojipedia.org/growing-heart Mission: Elevate later life for everybody and build the care sector of the future. 💻 Office Policy: Hybrid with two core office days or remote. 🌍 Office Location: London Bridge, London, UK or remote, Europe. 🔍 https://emojipedia.org/magnifying-glass-tilted-left The Opportunity: We're looking for a Lead Platform Engineer to own the infrastructure and security foundation that Lottie's engineering teams build on. This is a broad, high-ownership role. You'll be the person who keeps our cloud infrastructure running well, starts to own our security posture, and looks for ways to improve how our engineers experience the platform underneath them every day. It's not a narrow specialism - we want someone who is energised by the full scope, not just one slice of it. Lottie's infrastructure is modern, simple and intentional. Our services run on Kubernetes (EKS), deployed following GitOps practices with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD, and monitored with OpenTelemetry-powered logs, traces and metrics. Our cloud surface is split across AWS for compute and GCP for data (BigQuery), with infrastructure managed as code through Terraform. We prioritise pragmatism, stability and solving real problems over technology for technology's sake, and this key role owns the future direction of the platform, observability, security and infrastructure as a whole. You'll join as the sole owner of this function, which means real autonomy and real accountability. The work is consequential: Lottie is scaling fast, our products carry serious responsibility for the families and care providers who rely on them, and the platform needs to be in safe hands.   💻 What you'll be doing - Own Lottie's cloud infrastructure end-to-end - reliability, performance, cost, observability and developer experience - Champion an observability culture where engineers own what they ship - giving teams the dashboards, alerting and tooling to genuinely run their own services, not just deploy them - Set the guardrails for how we use AI safely - establishing security best practices and ways of working that let teams move fast with AI tooling without creating risk - Lead our information security accreditations, including ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials - treating them as a chance to genuinely strengthen our posture, not a box-ticking exercise - Take genuine ownership of our security posture: auditing where we are, identifying gaps, and making pragmatic improvements over time - Work closely with engineering teams to understand what they need from the platform and build things that actually help them move faster - Evaluate and improve our IT and vendor setup, including potential managed service arrangements - We want someone who ties every infrastructure decision back to what it unlocks for the business - not building for the sake of technical interest   👀 We think you'll be a great fit if… - You're breadth-first: you'd rather own a wide area well than be the deepest possible expert in one narrow slice - You have solid experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering - hands-on with GCP, AWS, or both - You know Kubernetes deeply - not just deploying to it, but running it in production: scaling, debugging, upgrades, and the operational realities that only come from owning clusters yourself - You have real observability expertise - you've built monitoring, alerting and tracing that engineers actually use, and you know the difference b