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Senior Platform Engineer

Job description

Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer
📍 London or Cambridge (Hybrid) | 💼 Permanent | 🧑‍💻 Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
£70,000 - £100,000 per annum + bonus
No Sponsorship Option

We’re partnering with a high-growth, product-led technology company to hire a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer to join their Infrastructure team. This is a hands-on role focused on building secure, scalable, cloud-native platforms and evolving modern deployment practices across a mature AWS environment.
You’ll play a key role in shaping infrastructure architecture, driving automation, and improving reliability across production systems used globally.

What You’ll Be Doing
  • Design, build, and operate scalable AWS infrastructure across services including EC2, EKS, RDS/Aurora, ElastiCache, OpenSearch, and CloudFront
  • Lead the adoption and optimisation of Kubernetes (EKS) for production and internal workloads
  • Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code pipelines using Terraform (or similar) integrated with CI/CD
  • Implement zero-downtime deployment strategies including blue/green, rolling, and canary releases
  • Improve platform resilience, scalability, and availability by eliminating single points of failure
  • Enhance observability and monitoring using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch
  • Partner with Security teams to embed best practices across IAM, secrets management, and cloud posture
  • Optimise cloud performance and spend through automation and visibility tooling
  • Contribute to incident response, post-incident reviews, and continuous operational improvements
What We’re Looking For
  • Strong experience designing and operating AWS infrastructure in production environments
  • Hands-on experience with Terraform and CI/CD-driven infrastructure provisioning
  • Solid Kubernetes experience, ideally managing workloads on AWS EKS
  • Strong Linux, networking, and cloud security fundamentals
  • Experience with observability tooling and structured alerting practices
  • Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, and database operations
  • Scripting and automation experience (Python, Bash, or similar)
  • Collaborative mindset with a passion for improving engineering efficiency
Why Apply?
  • Opportunity to shape a modern cloud platform at scale
  • High-impact role with real ownership of infrastructure strategy
  • Work with experienced engineering and SRE teams
  • Competitive salary + strong benefits package