AWS Platform Engineer

Salary: £20,000 - 60,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong hands-on experience building and operating infrastructure on AWS
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience, including reusable modules and automated deployment
• Good understanding of AWS networking, including VPCs, subnets, routing, DNS, security groups and hybrid connectivity
• Strong understanding of AWS IAM, security controls, encryption, secrets management and least-privilege access
• Experience implementing cloud monitoring, logging, alerting and observability
• Experience working with multi-account AWS environments, governance and environment separation
• Comfortable scripting and automating using Python, Bash, PowerShell or similar
• Good understanding of cloud resilience, backup, disaster recovery and operational support
• A collaborative, ownership-led mindset and the confidence to work with engineers, architects, security teams and other technical stakeholders
• Experience with AWS Control Tower, AWS Organizations, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Config, Systems Manager, IAM Identity Center, Security Hub, GuardDuty or similar AWS platform services would be highly valuable
• Familiarity with FinOps, AWS cost management, tagging strategies, policy-as-code, developer platforms, platform engineering or Site Reliability Engineering practices would also help you succeed

Responsibilities:

• Build and automate AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• Establish reusable infrastructure modules, deployment patterns and engineering guardrails
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and platform services
• Implement AWS security controls, IAM patterns, secrets management and secure networking
• Establish monitoring, logging, alerting and operational observability across the platform
• Implement tagging, cost visibility, budgets and FinOps controls to help teams understand and manage cloud consumption
• Work closely with architecture, security, data engineering and development teams to create a platform that is secure, reliable and straightforward to consume
• Design, build and operate secure, resilient AWS infrastructure and shared platform services
• Develop reusable modules and automation that allow teams to provision infrastructure consistently
• Build deployment pipelines and automated controls that make infrastructure changes safe, repeatable and auditable
• Implement cloud networking patterns including VPCs, routing, DNS, security groups and connectivity between AWS and existing environments
• Embed security by design, including least-privilege access, encryption, secrets management, vulnerability management and policy enforcement
• Build platform observability using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards and automated alerting
• Establish backup, recovery, resilience and operational readiness patterns
• Implement cloud cost management through tagging standards, budgets, monitoring, optimisation and FinOps practices
• Support multi-account and multi-environment AWS architectures with appropriate governance and controls
• Create platform documentation, engineering standards and reusable patterns that make it easier for development teams to adopt AWS
• Collaborate closely with Architecture, Security, Data Engineering, AI Engineering and application teams to continually improve the developer experience

Technologies:

• AI
• AWS
• Bash
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• CloudWatch
• IAM
• Support
• Mobile
• PowerShell
• Python
• Security
• Terraform
• DevOps

More:

We are Microlise, and we are hiring an AWS Platform Engineer on a 12-month fixed term contract to help build the cloud platform that will power our next generation of analytics, AI and digital services. This is a strategic opportunity to shape our AWS platform from the ground up, establishing the engineering foundations, automation, security controls and operational standards that future teams will build upon. You will work within our Platform Engineering team to create reusable AWS capabilities that help engineers across Microlise deploy securely, operate confidently and innovate at scale. We are investing in our next-generation cloud platform to support advanced analytics, AI-driven products, data services and future digital innovation. We support 14 of the UKs 15 largest retailers, including customers such as JCB, Eddie Stobart, Carlsberg, Waitrose and Royal Mail. We are proudly Midlands-based and privately owned for thirty years, with a culture that supports our people and their development. Benefits include 25 days holiday excluding bank holidays, increasing to 30 days, recognition of service, free parking, tea, coffee and daily fruit, Vitality Health Insurance, Employee Assistance Programme, subsidised eye tests and glasses, free Costco membership, 20% off EE mobile and line rental, and staff extras such as Easter eggs, a yearly BBQ, Christmas gifts and annual staff awards. Our recruitment process runs throughout the advertising period via video conferencing, and at least one interview stage will be held in person at our Head Office in Eastwood, Nottingham.

last updated 37 week of 2026