Engineering Platform Technical Lead (TypeScript, CI/CD)

We're looking for a Technical Team Lead to join our Engineering Platforms & Practice group, leading the strategy, design, and delivery of next-generation software delivery platforms used across a global engineering organisation. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you'll combine engineering excellence, platform thinking, and people leadership to create secure, scalable, and frictionless developer experiences. You'll guide a high-performing team building reusable CI/CD capabilities, automation tooling, and software supply chain controls that help thousands of engineers deliver software safely and efficiently.

If you're passionate about DevOps, developer platforms, automation, cloud technologies, and leading great engineers, I'd love to hear from you.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers delivering critical DevSecOps and platform capabilities
• Define technical strategy and architectural direction for CI/CD and automation platforms
• Build secure, reusable CI/CD components that drive consistency, governance, and compliance across the software development lifecycle
• Design solutions that enhance software supply chain security, provenance, and auditability
• Integrate with engineering tooling ecosystems to automate workflows and improve developer productivity
• Work directly with engineering teams and stakeholders to understand challenges and drive adoption
• Create enablement content, training, workshops, and best practices to support platform adoption
• Use data and feedback to continuously improve platform performance, reliability, and user experience
• Champion modern engineering practices, automation, and continuous improvement across the organisation

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience as a Technical Lead, Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, Platform Engineer, or Senior DevOps Engineer
• Java / JVM technologies
• TypeScript
• Deep understanding of modern DevOps principles, including:
• CI/CD
• Reliability engineering
• SLI/SLO management
• Error budgets
• GitHub Actions
• Infrastructure as Code and platform automation
• Ansible or equivalent tooling
• Experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes and GCP
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills

Nice to Have

• Experience with TeamCity, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Tekton, or similar orchestration platforms
• Knowledge of software supply chain security and frameworks such as SLSA
• Understanding of SBOM generation, provenance, and compliance controls
• Experience coaching, mentoring, and developing engineering talent
• Experience building internal developer platforms or engineering enablement capabilities