Platform Lead, Blue Light Card
£90-110k
+ A company bonus scheme
1-2 days a week in office (Cossington, London)
Scaling tech business offering market leading benefits
Open for applications
Scaling tech business offering market leading benefits
201-500 employees
Open for applications
£90-110k
+ A company bonus scheme
1-2 days a week in office (Cossington, London)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To become the destination of choice for the Blue Light community, by providing access to unrivalled savings and unique member experiences via our mobile app and website.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience leading a Platform, Infrastructure, or SRE function in a product led engineering organisation
- Deep, hands-on AWS expertise across compute, networking, storage, serverless, and security
- Strong Terraform experience, building reusable infrastructure‑as‑code that teams actively adopt
- Experience defining and operating SLOs, observability standards, and incident management at scale
- Ability to set technical direction and communicate it clearly to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders
- A strong people focus, with a track record of mentoring engineers and building high performing teams
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring and logging platforms, and modern platform engineering practices
- A commercial mindset, connecting platform investment to delivery speed, cost efficiency, and positive business outcomes
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Platform Lead to join our Engineering team at Blue Light Card at a pivotal moment
- This is a foundational role, with the platform function just getting started and a real opportunity to shape its direction, culture, and impact from the ground up
- As Platform Lead, you’ll own platform engineering end to end, setting the strategy, building the team, and ensuring product squads have the tooling, infrastructure, and paved roads they need to deliver with confidence
- You’ll define what “production ready” means across the organisation and work closely with Staff Engineers and Engineering Managers to make the right technical choices the easiest ones to make
- This is a hands‑on leadership role that balances deep technical involvement with organisational impact
- You’ll stay close to the technology and the challenges teams face, while owning the platform roadmap, influencing technical direction, and building a platform team that product squads trust and rely on
- Lead and develop the Platform Engineering team, creating an environment where engineers and squads can thrive
- Own the platform roadmap, ensuring it delivers clear value to product teams and supports business growth
- Act as the trusted technical authority for platform and infrastructure decisions across engineering
- Set clear, practical production readiness standards covering reliability, observability, security, scalability, and cost
- Build and evolve paved‑road platform solutions, reference architectures, and reusable tooling
- Embed strong operational practices, including SLOs, alerting, and effective incident management
- Use operational data and insights to continuously improve platform reliability, performance, and efficiency
- Enable product teams to be increasingly self-sufficient through great documentation, collaboration, and thoughtful use of automation and AI
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Many essential workers, like those in the NHS and emergency services, often face financial strain due to the demanding nature of their jobs. Their tireless efforts leave little time for personal pursuits, and their salaries might not always reflect the sacrifices they make.
To tackle this problem, Blue Light Card has established partnerships with over 15,000 retailers, offering a wide array of savings and benefits that are not typically accessible to the general public. Through its discount card, members gain access to discounts both online and in various high street establishments, including retailers, restaurants, and cinemas across the UK.
With millions of registered members and a growing network of partner retailers, Blue Light Card is well-positioned to enhance its offerings and continue advocating for the recognition and appreciation of the dedicated individuals who serve society's most critical needs.
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Meet the team
8 people
Abi Munroe, Commercial Content Executive
Insights
Company
Company benefits
- Blue Light Card HQ: A great open-plan office space which includes free onsite parking, EV charging points, gym, kitchen areas, table tennis, pool table, TV and video games and free onsite refreshments & snacks
- Hybrid working: We promote hybrid working for all colleagues dependent on your role requirements. Flexible start and finish times are considered on an individual basis
- Annual leave: We offer an annual leave allowance of 25 days, plus the UK bank holidays. On top of this, everyone is entitled to an additional day off for their birthday, and a buy/sell holiday scheme
- Get involved: Colleagues can join our Culture Club which meets regularly to discuss and arrange events. There's also regular surveys so you can provide anonymous feedback on your experience. And yes, we do listen!
- Company bonus scheme: Every colleague is eligible to participate in our annual company bonus scheme. The scheme is based on overall company performance
- Group pension plan: We operate an auto-enrolment pension scheme via salary sacrifice, with employer NI savings reinvested into pensions.
- Your own Blue Light Card: You'll have exclusive access to your very own Blue Light Card, accessing thousands of discounts on the brands you love, both online and on the high street
- Life assurance: A benefit that we don't ever want to have to rely on, but having it gives peace of mind should the worst happen. All our colleagues are eligible for 4 x salary life assurance cover
- Sick pay: Company sick pay is payable from the first day of your sickness absence and is equal to your full basic salary if you have up to 4 weeks off sick
- Enhanced parental leave & time off for dependents: All colleagues are entitled to up to 52 weeks' maternity leave and 2 weeks paternity leave. We also offer up to 5 days paid leave for those last minute dependent related emergencies
- Gym: The physical and mental health of our colleagues is vital, so we have a state-of-the-art gym at our HQ, with shower and changing facilities (of course) and we run free HIIT and stretch classes each week
- Mental wellbeing: We deliver mental health awareness sessions and training for mental health first aiders. We run activities for Mental Health Awareness Week, such as on-site massage therapy and give hints and tips on how to look after your mental wellbeing
- Company funded private medical insurance: Following the successful completion of your probationary period, you'll be eligible to join the company's private medical insurance scheme
- Colleague assistance programme: Whatever's on your mind, whenever you need help, you can turn to the Legal & General colleague assistance programme which will be ready to provide confidential support 24/7
- Health cash plan: Get money back on the cost of everyday medical expenses. You'll receive an annual limit to claim back on expenditure such as the opticians, dental treatments, physiotherapy, prescription charges and much more
- Personal growth fund: All colleagues are eligible for our Personal Growth Fund of £450 per year. It could be spent on a course, a book, a workshop, a coaching session – whatever helps you build the skills and experiences that matter most to you.
Company HQ
Cossington, UK
Leadership
Alidad Moghaddam
(CEO)Alidad Moghaddam is a London-based tech CEO, VC & PE Operating Advisor, Board Member, and Investor. Their career spans start-ups, scale-ups, growth companies and large global enterprises.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Blue Light Card
- Blue Light Card is an equal opportunities employer, committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone feels welcomed and supported. We embrace uniqueness and understand that our diverse, values-driven culture makes us stronger. We’re proud to have an inclusive environment that will foster your development no matter your gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, education level or race.
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