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About the Role
Lead a team of three engineers, manage their delivery and capacity, and provide technical direction. You will be responsible for architecting and delivering scalable AWS platforms and operating high-availability Kubernetes clusters. This role requires technical credibility to review work and unblock the team, while not being the primary builder.
Responsibilities
- Lead the team's operating rhythm, including weekly intent, reviews, and daily standups.
- Conduct fortnightly one-to-ones, author performance ratings, and identify development gaps.
- Manage team capacity, protecting critical work and managing re-allocations.
- Act as Incident Lead for the team's services.
- Build team resilience through a named deputy, runbooks, and eliminating single points of failure.
- Run screening and technical assessments for new hires.
- Support the growth of team members based on documented skills and levels.
- Architect and deliver scalable AWS platforms.
- Operate high-availability Kubernetes clusters on EKS and on-premises.
- Own continuous delivery tooling (Argo CD) and improve platform capability.
- Build and document large-scale platforms as code using Terraform/OpenTofu.
- Hold accountability for AWS operations and coach the Platform Administration team.
- Communicate risk and security issues to stakeholders.
- Define and manage scoping, requirements definition, and prioritization for Platform Engineering changes.
- Contribute to and perform availability management tasks.
- Support the creation of reports, platform roadmapping, and evaluation of emerging technologies.
- Remain hands-on for reviews, unblocking, and technical direction.
Requirements
- Production AWS and Kubernetes environments operated at scale.
- Experience in a fast-paced start-up, scale-up, or dynamic environment.
- Led projects spanning multiple technical disciplines.
- Experience in a regulated financial services environment (desirable).
- Led a team of engineers as a line manager, including one-to-ones, development goals, performance reviews, and handling difficult conversations (desirable).
- Experience transferring operational ownership of a platform to another team, including building that team's capability (desirable).
Skills
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Terraform / OpenTofu (Infrastructure as Code)
- Argo CD (CI/CD)
- Observability tooling — Grafana, metrics, logs and traces
- Technical project management
- Proxmox and Talos Linux (bare metal) (desirable)
- Istio / Cilium (networking and security) (desirable)
- Vault (secrets management) (desirable)
- VictoriaMetrics (desirable)
- Leading a small team of three engineers
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to simplify and present complex ideas
- Organized and meticulous
- Structured approach to work
- Confident to voice an opinion
- Critical thinker
- Able to self-reflect and evaluate
- Comfortable working within and improving an established operating framework
- Independent thinker
- Collaborative
- Non-hierarchical and ego-free
- Passionate about technology
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Lead
Benefits
- Private healthcare plan through Vitality
- 50% off premium gym memberships
- Access to Vitality's exclusive rewards programme
- Employee assistance programme for mental health and wellbeing support
- 25 days of annual leave per year
- Regular team socials
- Welcoming, dog-friendly London office
- Breakout spaces and silent booths
- Family-friendly policies
- Support towards professional qualifications
- Electric car schemes
About the Company
- Y TREE is a rapidly growing WealthTech business redefining how individuals and families connect and engage with their money.
- The company provides clients with control over personal finances to achieve financial and life aspirations.
- Y TREE utilizes sophisticated portfolio analytics, innovative behavioral psychology, and cutting-edge UX/UI.
- Founded in 2017 by entrepreneurs with expertise in Technology, Corporate Advice, and Investment Management.
- Backed by leading European investors.
Equal Opportunity
- Y TREE aims to build diversity in its teams, including diversity of thought, culture, backgrounds, and perspectives.
- Applicants are encouraged to apply as they are, and reasonable adjustments can be made to support the application process.
- Candidates who do not meet 100% of the requirements are encouraged to apply if they can demonstrate suitability.
- Sponsorship is not available for this role.