Senior AWS Platform Engineer

Salary: £85,000 - 90,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong background in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or SRE
• Deep hands-on AWS experience, including networking, IAM, and security
• Commercial experience running Kubernetes in production, ideally EKS
• Expert-level Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience
• Solid experience building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions
• Strong programming ability in Python or Go beyond basic scripting
• Confident with Linux administration, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
• Experience with Amazon RDS or similar managed database services
• Track record of architecting cloud-native platforms in regulated or security-sensitive environments
• Comfortable leading technical conversations with engineers and stakeholders

Responsibilities:

• Architect and build secure, scalable AWS infrastructure using Terraform with an Infrastructure as Code first approach
• Design, run, and optimise Amazon EKS and containerised workloads across multiple environments
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to give engineering teams fast, safe, repeatable deployments
• Write automation and tooling in Python or Go to remove manual work and reduce operational overhead
• Support and optimise Amazon RDS environments for availability, performance, and security
• Embed site reliability principles across the platform, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and blameless incident reviews
• Build out monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability so problems are spotted before customers feel them
• Design solutions that meet the security, audit, and regulatory requirements for financial services, trading, and gambling clients
• Work closely with software engineering teams to improve developer experience and delivery speed
• Lead technical decisions, set standards, and take architectural ownership of the platform

Technologies:

• AWS
• Architect
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• GitHub
• IAM
• Support
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Python
• Security
• Terraform
• REST

More:

We are partnering with a software company building mission-critical platforms for financial services, trading firms, and the gambling sector in a regulated, high-stakes environment where downtime and security gaps are not an option. This Senior Platform Engineer role is based in London with a hybrid working arrangement of two days per week in the office, and offers up to £90,000 plus bonus and benefits. We provide a modern AWS stack with no legacy baggage, genuine technical leadership and architectural ownership, investment in training, certifications and progression, and a culture that values engineering quality over shipping at any cost.

last updated 31 week of 2026