Steven led the Platform Team at Mettle building a business banking proposition for SMEs. He was responsible for: Architecting and leading the team on the build-out of a Kubernetes centric platform on AWS. Embedding the use of Helm, Kustomize and GitOps principles across the organization. Implementing the monitoring and alerting mechanism using Prometheus and Thanos. Training the engineering team on Kubernetes and Cloud-Native best practices. Recruiting of both permanent staff and contractors into the organization. Using tools such as Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, Fluentbit, Helm and Weave Flux.