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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior DevOps Platform Engineer - **Company:** Leap29 - **Location:** London, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £63,801.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Cloud Database, Cloud Engineering, Configuration Management, Continuous Integration, Data Centers, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Github, Monitoring of Systems, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Linux System Administration, Network Service, Open Web Application Security, Windows PowerShell, Role-Based Access Control, Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Prometheus, SonarQube, Vault (Revision Control System), Software Vulnerability Management, Private Cloud Environment, Scripting, Google Cloud, Cloud Platform System, Istio, System Availability, Grafana, HybridCloud, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Gitlab, Cloudformation, Containerization, Gitlab-ci, Git Flow, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Deployment Automation, Functional Programming, Cloudwatch, Terraform, Splunk, New Relic (SaaS), Dynatrace, Docker, Jenkins, Vulnerability Analysis - **Published:** July 30, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5820100787 ## About the Role * Strong commercial experience working as a DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer or Cloud Infrastructure Engineer * Extensive hands-on AWS experience including VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda, * CloudWatch, ECS/EKS and networking services * Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform and/or CloudFormation * Strong Kubernetes experience including EKS, Helm, RBAC, networking and container management * Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions or similar tools * Strong understanding of Linux systems administration and cloud infrastructure * Experience with containerisation technologies including Docker and Kubernetes * Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef or similar * Strong scripting ability using languages such as Bash, Python or PowerShell * Understanding of cloud security principles including IAM, encryption, vulnerability management and compliance controls Desirable Experience * Experience working within regulated industries such as financial services, government or healthcare * Experience with GitOps practices and tools such as ArgoCD Knowledge of service mesh technologies including Istio or similar * Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk or ELK * Experience supporting hybrid cloud environments across AWS, Azure, GCP or private cloud * Experience with security tooling including Vault, SonarQube, OWASP, Checkov or vulnerability scanning solutions * Experience supporting highly available, business-critical platforms This role would suit a Senior DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer or Cloud Automation Specialist looking to work on challenging enterprise environments. ## Description We are currently supporting a leading organisation looking to hire an experienced Senior DevOps Platform Engineer to join their cloud engineering function. This is an excellent opportunity for a highly skilled DevOps professional to work on complex cloud-native environments, designing and automating scalable platforms across AWS, Kubernetes and modern CI/CD ecosystems. The successful candidate will play a key role in building resilient cloud platforms, improving deployment automation, supporting containerised applications and driving DevOps best practices across enterprise environments. 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