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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:** £58,000.0 - £98,000.0 - **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, Linux, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Github, 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, 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:** September 11, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5878313321 ## 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 * 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 ## Description * Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS environments * Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform, CloudFormation, and automation frameworks * Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitOps methodologies * Manage Kubernetes platforms including EKS, container orchestration, Helm deployments, and cluster optimisation * Support application containerisation using Docker and Kubernetes-based architectures * Implement GitOps delivery models using tools such as ArgoCD and Helm * Develop reusable automation frameworks for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployments * Improve platform reliability, scalability, and security through automation and engineering best practices * Support cloud migrations from traditional data centre environments into modern cloud-native platforms * Implement monitoring, observability, and logging solutions across complex distributed systems * Work closely with development, security, and architecture teams to improve software delivery processes Technologies: * AWS * Lambda * Ansible * ArgoCD * Azure * Bash * CI/CD * Cloud * CloudWatch * DevOps * Docker * Dynatrace * EC2 * ELK * GCP * GitHub * GitLab * GitOps * Grafana * Helm * IAM * Istio * Support * Jenkins * Kubernetes * Linux * OWASP * PowerShell * Prometheus * Python * RBAC * Security * Splunk * Terraform, We are supporting a leading organisation seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Platform Engineer to join our cloud engineering function in London. This is an excellent opportunity to work on complex cloud-native environments and help us design and automate scalable platforms across AWS, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD ecosystems. You 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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