Platform Engineer

Akixi
Liverpool, United Kingdom
12 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Temporary to permanent
Employment type
Part-time (≤ 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 130K

Job location

Remote
Liverpool, United Kingdom

Tech stack

API
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Computer Vision
User Authentication
Bash
Software as a Service
Cloud Computing
Cloud Engineering
Configuration Management
Continuous Integration
DevOps
Django
Amazon DynamoDB
Github
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)
Identity and Access Management
Python
OAuth
Scrum
Reliability Engineering
Ansible
Prometheus
JSON Web Token
Software Engineering
SQL Databases
Systems Integration
Datadog
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
Grafana
Reliability of Systems
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cloudformation
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Kubernetes
Hashicorp
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Bitbucket
Data Management
Opsworks
Functional Programming
Cloudwatch
Terraform
Docker
Jenkins

Job description

  • Design, build, and manage scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure on AWS using Terraform (modularized, reusable components).
  • Implement configuration management solutions using Ansible, including playbook development, inventory structuring, and role-based automation.
  • Manage secrets securely using services such as AWS Secrets Manager or HashiCorp Vault.
  • Implement robust monitoring, alerting, and observability tooling (e.g., CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
  • Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and resilience improvements.
  • Maintain and evolve CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, or Jenkins.
  • Automate deployments for container-based workloads on ECS (Fargate), or Lambda, and manage supporting infrastructure.
  • Collaborate with development teams to optimize build/deploy cycles and reduce lead time for changes.
  • Ensure security best practices are embedded into infrastructure provisioning and pipeline execution.
  • Support compliance and auditing by implementing guardrails and controls as code (e.g., AWS Config, SCPs, IAM policy management).
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Requirements

We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer with a deep understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tooling such as Terraform, and configuration management using Ansible. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter, passionate about Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, and thrive in collaborative environments.

You will play a pivotal role in automating infrastructure, improving reliability and scalability, and ensuring smooth CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments. You'll work closely with software engineering, and security teams to drive platform excellence., * 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering roles.

  • Expertise in AWS core services: EC2, IAM, VPC, ECS/Fargate, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Lambda.
  • Strong proficiency in Terraform (HCL) - including workspaces, modules, and Terraform Cloud or similar.
  • Ansible experience - developing roles, dynamic inventories, managing remote configurations.
  • Strong scripting knowledge (Bash, Python, or Go).
  • Experience with container orchestration and deployment (Docker, ECS, or Kubernetes).
  • Proficient with GitOps or IaC-based workflows.
  • Familiarity with Google SRE practices, particularly around reliability, observability, and operational excellence.
  • Understanding of systems reliability metrics and associated tooling

Soft Skills & Behaviours

  • Self-driven with a bias toward action and ownership.
  • Excellent communicator, able to collaborate across disciplines and levels of technical understanding.
  • Experience working as part of a cross-functional team.
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About the company

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