Lead AWS Platform Engineer

As a Senior AWS Platform Engineer, you’ll be responsible for designing, building and enhancing large-scale AWS and Kubernetes platforms that support business-critical workloads.

Working closely with engineers, architects, product teams and delivery stakeholders, you’ll help deliver platform capabilities that improve scalability, reliability, security and developer experience across the wider technology estate., * Build, operate and enhance large-scale AWS EKS/Kubernetes platforms.

• Develop and deliver cloud platform capabilities using Infrastructure as Code.
• Design and implement automation to improve platform deployment, management and scalability.
• Support secure multi-tenant environments through effective IAM, authentication and secrets management practices.
• Improve platform resilience, observability, monitoring and alerting capabilities.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices.
• Take ownership of technical initiatives from research and design through to production release.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects, product teams and delivery stakeholders.
• Support the ongoing evolution of a shared cloud platform strategy.
• Ensure critical production services remain highly available, secure and scalable., * Opportunity to contribute to a large-scale cloud and Kubernetes transformation.
• Work on highly complex engineering challenges involving scale, resilience, security and automation.
• Exposure to enterprise-level AWS and Kubernetes environments supporting critical services.
• Ownership of significant platform engineering initiatives from design through to delivery.
• Collaborative environment with experienced cloud, platform and infrastructure engineers.
• Opportunity to influence the future direction of a strategic cloud platform.

Pay: Up to £700.00 per day

This opportunity is ideal for an engineer who enjoys solving complex platform challenges and wants to work at significant scale within a cloud-native environment., * Extensive hands-on experience with Kubernetes and AWS EKS in enterprise environments.

• Strong experience designing, building and operating AWS cloud platforms.
• Proven expertise using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code methodologies.
• Experience building automation and supporting CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of highly available, resilient production systems.
• Experience with monitoring, observability and platform reliability engineering.
• Solid knowledge of IAM, access controls, authentication and secrets management.
• Experience supporting multi-tenant platforms in large-scale environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.

Desirable Skills

• Python development.
• AWS Lambda.
• Argo CD or similar GitOps tooling.
• Helm and Docker.
• Service mesh technologies such as Istio.
• API Gateway technologies such as Kong.
• Jira and Confluence.
• Experience supporting database, caching or platform services.