Senior Platform Engineer
Opus Recruitment Solutions
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
2 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
SeniorJob location
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
Tech stack
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Distributed Systems
Linux System Administration
Software Engineering
Datadog
Grafana
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Sentry
Pagerduty
Microservices
Job description
We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer with a strong background in software development to join our Clients Platform and Infrastructure Engineering team. In this role, you will help drive the next phase of their platform's evolution by enhancing internal tooling, improving the local developer experience, and ensuring engineers have the resources they need to work efficiently and deliver industry-leading features at scale.
Requirements
- Background in software development
- Strong communication and ability to influence technical direction
- Experience with microservices and distributed systems
- Proven cross-team collaboration
- Strong AWS experience (EKS, RDS, S3, CloudFront, MSK)
- Understanding of SLIs, SLOs, SLAs
- Knowledge of networking and Linux administration
- Experience with monitoring tools (Datadog, Grafana, ELK, Sentry, OpsGenie)
