Senior Platform Engineer - AWS
Role Overview
Senior Platform Engineer Remote - With visits to Leeds office Our talented people are creating the technology of the future.
From scheduling to maintenance to keeping people safe, 2.7 million people are helped by our software daily.
Technology makes it possible; people make it happen and you could be part of that.
The Tracsis Group has grown rapidly, diversifying into related transport technologies, and successfully executing a strategy that has seen it make a total of seventeen acquisitions.
Today Tracsis is a leading provider of software, hardware, data analytics/GIS and services for the rail, traffic data and wider transport industries.
The Group has c.550 permanent employees serving its growing customer base from offices in the UK, Ireland and the US.
The Role We're looking for an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to help design, build and operate our AWS-based platform.
As a senior technical contributor within our Platform Engineering function, you'll play a key role in shaping the capabilities that underpin our strategic objectives across Developer Experience, Service Reliability, and Business Agility.
You’ll work primarily with AWS (EKS), alongside the CNCF ecosystem, Istio service mesh, ArgoCD, Terraform & Crossplane, and GitLab CI/CD.
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Job description
Design, build and support secure, scalable and reliable platform capabilities across AWS
Develop and improve self-service tooling that enables engineering teams to deliver software more efficiently
Work with Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies to enhance our Internal Developer Platform
Support platform reliability, observability and operational excellence across production environments
Collaborate closely with development teams to improve developer experience and remove delivery bottlenecks
Drive the adoption of Infrastructure as Code, automation and platform engineering best practices
Contribute to platform architecture and technical decisions, helping to shape future platform capabilities
Troubleshoot complex platform issues and support incident resolution when required
Share knowledge, mentor engineers and help raise technical standards across the team
Strong experience in Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or DevOps roles within cloud-native environments
Proven production experience with EKS, Istio service mesh and GitOps, with exposure to GKE and/or Azure environments
Hands-on expertise with Terraform, Crossplane and GitLab CI/CD
Strong Linux administration skills and experience building self-service platform capabilities at scale
Good understanding of security, including Vault and IAM, alongside observability tooling such as Grafana, Thanos, Loki, Tempo and Jaeger
Experience supporting production platforms, including incident response and operational ownership
A pragmatic engineering mindset with a strong sense of ownership, a passion for automation, and the ability to positively influence and mentor others
Flexible working hours to support work-life balance
25 days holiday + bank holidays
Competitive salary
Udemy Licence for learning and development
Bupa Medical Health care
Life assurance (3x basic salary)
Enhanced Parental Leave
2 volunteering days per year
Tusker Car Scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Intro call with Talent Team
Technical Interview
Behavioural Interview
About Tracsis
Public UK transport-technology group providing rail software, traffic data, analytics, hardware, and operational services.
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