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# Platform Engineer

- **Company:** American IT Systems
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Github, Monitoring of Systems, Python (Programming Language), Reliability Engineering, Shell Script, Web Platforms, System Availability, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Relational Database Service, Kubernetes, Functional Programming, Terraform, Docker, Jenkins
- **Published:** August 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=9d335f285cabc4e6

## About the Role

* AWS Cloud Services (EC2, S3, Lambda, VPC, RDS)
 * Kubernetes & Docker
 * Terraform
 * CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, DevOps)
 * Python or Shell Scripting
 * Monitoring & Observability tools
 * Networking and Security fundamentals
 * Agile and DevOps practices

Preferred Skills

 * Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
 * Cloud Architecture experience
 * AWS Certification
 * Experience supporting large-scale digital platforms

## Description

Design, build and operate cloud platforms that enable engineering teams to deliver applications securely, reliably and at scale., * Build and support cloud infrastructure and platform services.

 * Design and manage Kubernetes-based environments.
 * Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
 * Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
 * Monitor platform health, performance and availability.
 * Troubleshoot production issues and drive root-cause resolution.
 * Automate operational processes and deployments.
 * Collaborate with development teams to improve platform reliability and developer productivity.


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