Platforms Engineering Lead

LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university

Salary from £53,949 to £62,160 per annum inclusive with potential to progress to £69,073 pa inclusive of London allowance

The London School of Economics is a cosmopolitan university situated in the vibrant centre of London that specialises in the study of social sciences.

LSE’s Data and Technology Services division provides services to over 10,000 staff and student users.

The Platforms Engineering Lead provides hands-on technical leadership and day-to-day operational oversight for the School’s platforms and infrastructure services, including compute, storage, virtualisation, backup and cloud foundations. The role is responsible for ensuring these services are reliable, secure, scalable and well-run, while progressively modernising how the platform estate is built and operated. 

The postholder is responsible for embedding automation, infrastructure-as-code, observability, platform reliability and continuous improvement, while maintaining the stability, scalability and recoverability of a large, business-critical platform estate. The role drives the adoption of reusable platform services, self-service capabilities and standardised engineering approaches that enable DTS and business-led technology teams to deliver and operate solutions more efficiently, while maintaining appropriate security, governance and operational controls. The role will also lead the rest of the team by example and set high service, interaction and delivery standards. 

Candidates should have:

• Significant experience (minimum 5+ years) in platform engineering, infrastructure operations or cloud services, including responsibility for business-critical platform services, with evidence of technical leadership capability, mentoring, team coordination or delivery of complex initiatives.
• Demonstrable technical leadership across platform domains including compute, virtualisation, storage, backup, identity services, cloud platforms and platform automation, with the ability to set technical direction and support the development of
• Strong practical experience implementing automation, infrastructure-as-code and platform engineering approaches to improve consistency, reduce manual effort and enable scalable service delivery.

We offer an occupational pension scheme, generous annual leave, hybrid working, and excellent training and development opportunities.

For further information about the post, please see the how to apply document, job description and the person specification.

To apply for this post, please go to www.jobs.lse.ac.uk.

If you have any technical queries with applying on the online system, please use the “contact us” links at the bottom of the LSE Jobs page.

Should you have any queries about the role, please email dts.admin@lse.ac.uk.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 16 October 2026 (23.59 UK time).

Regrettably, we are unable to accept any late applications.

Advert information