Cloud Platform Engineer - AWS/Kubernetes - Terraform - London

IT Human Resources
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Compensation
£ 156K

Job location

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Bash
Cloud Computing
Computer Networks
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Integration
Fault Tolerance
Github
Monitoring of Systems
Subnetting
Python
Prometheus
Data Logging
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
Load Balancing
Cloud Platform System
Grafana
Reliability of Systems
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Containerization
Gitlab-ci
Kubernetes
Cloudwatch
Terraform
Docker
Jenkins

Job description

We are looking for a Cloud Platform Engineer to help design, build, and maintain our cloud infrastructure and developer platforms for a fast-growing software house delivering scalable, high-performance applications for clients across multiple industries. We are looking for a Cloud Platform Engineer to help design, build, and maintain our cloud infrastructure and developer platforms.

You will be responsible for building and operating secure, scalable, and resilient cloud infrastructure on AWS. You will work closely with development teams to enable continuous delivery, improve system reliability, and drive infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Duties:

  • Design, implement, and manage Cloud infrastructure on AWS
  • Build and maintain Kubernetes clusters for containerized workloads
  • Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
  • Improve CI/CD pipelines to support efficient and reliable deployments
  • Monitor system performance, availability, and security
  • Implement best practices for scalability, fault tolerance, and cost optimization
  • Collaborate with software engineers to streamline development workflows
  • Troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues across environments
  • Ensure compliance with security and governance standards

Requirements

  • Strong hands-on experience with AWS
  • Solid experience with Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
  • Proven expertise of IaC (preferably Terraform)
  • Experience with containerization tools (Docker)
  • Familiarity with CI/CD tools (eg, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI)
  • Good understanding of networking concepts (VPCs, subnets, load balancing)
  • Experience with monitoring/logging tools (eg, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch)
  • Proficiency in Scripting (eg, Python, Bash)
  • Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills

Benefits & conditions

London - £575/600 Per Day - Inside IR35 Contract Posted by: IT Human Resources Posted: Monday, 20 April 2026

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