Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Dev Ops / 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 Dev Ops / 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, Elasti Cache, Open Search, and Cloud Front
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 Cloud Watch
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