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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Platform Engineer - **Company:** Sparta - **Location:** London, UK - **Experience:** Starter - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Bash Shell, Cloud Computing, Computer Programming, Continuous Integration, Programming Tools, Github, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Systems Development Life Cycle, Redis, TypeScript, Datadog, Circleci, AWS Cdk, Scripting, Cloud Platform System, Cloudformation, Kotlin, Amazon Relational Database Service, Kubernetes, Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Terraform, Stream Processing - **Published:** August 7, 2026 - **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=09e4da52bb2e774b ## About the Role * A strong urge to own and improve things - to look for things that aren't working and make them better * A good working understanding of AWS and core cloud infrastructure concepts such as compute, networking, storage and IAM * Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code, whether AWS CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation or something similar * A working knowledge of Kubernetes and container-based workloads * Familiarity with CI/CD tooling and the software delivery lifecycle * Comfort with at least one programming or scripting language (for example, TypeScript, Java/Kotlin, Python or Bash) and an interest in automating things * Comfort working with agent-based development tools. We use Claude Code, but experience with any comparable AI coding agent is fine * A collaborative, developer-focused mindset, and an interest in making other engineers' lives easier * A willingness to learn, get stuck in, and take part in incident response * Clear communication and a pragmatic approach to problem-solving Nice to have * Experience building or operating a platform on Kubernetes, EKS, especially * Experience with observability tooling, particularly Datadog * Familiarity with data or streaming systems such as Redshift, RDS, Kafka or Flink * Understanding of security and compliance best practices in cloud environments ## Description You'll join our Platform Engineering team, which owns the tooling, automation and infrastructure that our development teams use to build, deploy and run their software. The role covers the full lifecycle. You'll help build the self-service platform that lets teams ship easily, work on the deployment tooling and pipelines that get their code into production, and help operate and support the infrastructure on which it all runs. You'll need a solid grounding in AWS and cloud infrastructure concepts. It's a good fit for someone early in their career who wants to grow their platform, cloud, and Kubernetes skills while working on systems that every developer in the company depends on. What you'll do * Contribute to the internal platform, tooling and automation that development teams use to build, deploy and operate their applications * Develop and maintain infrastructure as code in AWS CDK, so our AWS environment is provisioned and managed in a repeatable, reviewable way * Extend our CI/CD pipelines, including our ongoing migration from CircleCI to GitHub Actions * Support the runtime across Lambda, ECS and EKS, and help move more of our workloads onto our Kubernetes-based platform (EKS) * Operate and support data and streaming infrastructure, including Redshift, RDS, Kafka, Flink and Redis/Valkey * Support development teams in resolving incidents, helping diagnose and fix infrastructure-related issues * Improve observability, monitoring and alerting in Datadog so problems are caught early * Document platform capabilities and help developers adopt them ## Related Videos - [Reducing LLM Calls with Vector Search Patterns - Raphael De Lio (Redis)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1714-reducing-llm-calls-with-vector-search-patterns-raphael-de-lio-redis) - [Innovating Developer Tools with AI: Insights from GitHub Next](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1268-innovating-developer-tools-with-ai-insights-from-github-next) - [Kotlin Multiplatform - True power of native code reuse](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/4-kotlin-multiplatform-true-power-of-native-code-reuse) - [Platform Engineering vs. DevOps Why not both?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/885-platform-engineering-vs-devops-why-not-both) - [Accelerating Authentication Architecture: Taking Passwordless to the Next Level](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/733-accelerating-authentication-architecture-taking-passwordless-to-the-next-level) - [One Platform Could Not Fit Them All](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1919-one-platform-could-not-fit-them-all) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [The Best X (Twitter) Accounts for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/294-the-best-x-twitter-accounts-for-developers) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [7 Most Popular Web Developer Jobs in Europe](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/163-7-most-popular-web-developer-jobs-in-europe) - [Software Engineer Salary London](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/252-software-engineer-salary-london)