AWS Platform Engineer

About the Role

Responsibilities

• Maintain AWS infrastructure, PaaS orchestration, build agents, monitoring tools, and dashboards across EC2 and Kubernetes containers.
• Design and automate internal processes using AWS, Terraform, and other automation tools.
• Build and troubleshoot CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines using Jenkins and GitOps tools such as ArgoCD.
• Partner with developers on build, deployment, production, and service-environment issues.
• Guide software through its lifecycle and promote deployments across environments.
• Mentor team members, support technical direction, and improve observability for faster incident response.

Required Qualifications

• At least 3 years of Platform Engineer experience, including commercial Linux support in a large-scale environment.
• Commercial experience supporting applications on AWS cloud services.
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience and strong scripting and automation skills.
• Substantial experience with Git, Docker, CI/CD tooling, Terraform, and Ansible.
• AWS certification at Associate level or higher.
• Agile or Scrum experience and strong communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of Java, Python, Node.js, or other software development languages.
• Experience with observability, application monitoring or profiling, and open-source or commercial monitoring tools.
• Experience with Agile, ITIL, security, audit, compliance, SQL, DBMS optimisation, or IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.

Workplace

• Hybrid working arrangements are available for all employees.

Culture and Benefits

• Additional annual leave, RDOs, and the option to purchase extra leave.
• Learning and development support including annual budgets, development plans, paid study leave, and stretch opportunities.
• Health and wellbeing programs, paid volunteering leave, and regular social activities.