About the Position
We are looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to support the existing AWS infrastructure and contribute to its ongoing modernisation and consolidation.
The role combines hands-on cloud engineering with developer enablement. You should understand Platform Engineering as a product discipline and be able to discuss developer experience, self-service, platform adoption, reliability, and technical trade-offs.
The working schedule is aligned with UK business hours, from 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM UK time. Participation in an on-call rota may be required.
This position includes a sign-in bonus.
About the Project
You will contribute to a transformation from team operated infrastructure toward a platform with clear self service capabilities. The project is centered on reliability, security, observability, resilience, and maintainable engineering practices for business critical services.
About the Team
You will work with a cross-functional platform team collaborating. The team partners closely with application engineers and supports shared ownership through collaborative delivery and an on-call rota.
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve reliable cloud platform capabilities for engineering teams.
- Improve AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring and operational patterns.
- Partner with engineers to understand needs and make safe, maintainable choices.
- Take ownership of work from problem definition through delivery and learning.
- Strengthen observability, resilience, security and incident readiness.
- Help build reusable tooling, guardrails and self-service foundations.
- Participate in incident response, communication, post-incident reviews, and completion of corrective actions.
- Participate in an on-call rota when required.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on AWS platform engineering experience in production environments.
- Practical Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, Terraform and Helm experience.
- Strong CI/CD experience, particularly GitHub Actions, and reusable-pipeline thinking.
- Experience with logging and monitoring, networking and protocols, scripting, secrets management and service discovery.
- Exposure to both AWS and Kubernetes, with sound coding experience.
- Evidence of designing secure, reliable and maintainable platform solutions.
- Autonomous delivery and constructive collaboration with application engineers.
- Experience supporting business-critical services through an on-call rota.
- Experience with at least one programming or scripting language.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry , Prometheus, Splunk , including SLO-led practices.
- Pragmatic use of AI-assisted engineering tools to improve quality and productivity
Technologies
AWS, EKS, ECS, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Terraform, GitHub Actions, OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, Datadog, Claude, ChatGPT