Platform Engineering Lead

  • Ascendion
  • 08/09/2025
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications Java SQL Oracle

Job Description

Below are the details of the position:

Platform Engineering Lead
Location: Bromley, UK

Job Description:

Required Skills:

  • 20+ years experience in building and maintaining applications with focus on performance, scalability, security, and reliability.
  • 7+ years experience overseeing enterprise-grade platform solutions
  • Experience in a highly Agile continuous integration and continuous deployment environment, preferably within a financial domain.
  • Strong experience in Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Mule, web Services, Kafka, SQL & PL/SQL (Oracle)
  • Strong knowledge of XML, JSON and its usage within API and Microservice implementations at scale.
  • Significant expertise in cloud-native deployment using OpenShift, Kubernetes or any one the container platform.
  • Experience maintaining on-premises environments, containerized applications and hybrid cloud solutions.
  • Experience using leading app servers and integration technologies like Mule ESB, Anypoint Platform, MQ, Kafka.
  • Experience in Splunk, Dynatrace or AppDynamics (APM tools).
  • Proven ability to leverage knowledge of infrastructure automation, DevOps, cloud technologies and platform architecture to build resilient, scalable and maintainable solutions
  • Experience implementing best practices, optimizing performance, ensuring compliance with security standards, and providing leadership to the engineering team
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to delve in low level details with a technical audience and explain concepts at a high level to a non-technical audience.