Platform Engineer

Role: Platform Engineer Location: London Area, United Kingdom (Hybrid) Employment Type: Full-time Seniority: Mid-Senior Salary: £75,000 - £90,000 + Bonus

Are you a Platform Engineer who enjoys owning services, solving complex operational challenges, and building secure cloud platforms at scale?

We're looking for a hands-on Platform Engineer to help design, build and support secure, highly available cloud infrastructure within a fast-paced, regulated environment.

This is more than a traditional infrastructure role. You'll play a key part in building and operating AWS-based platforms, supporting critical API services, improving operational resilience, managing incidents, and working closely with Architecture and Security teams to deliver secure and reliable services.

If you enjoy combining cloud engineering, automation, security, operational ownership and continuous improvement, we'd love to hear from you. The Role

Design, build and maintain secure, scalable AWS infrastructure

Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform

Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, Jenkins and similar tooling

Support containerised and serverless workloads using Kubernetes, Docker and AWS Fargate

Own and support production services and APIs

Monitor platform health, performance and availability

Manage observability, logging and alerting capabilities

Troubleshoot complex technical issues and drive root cause analysis

Support incident response and service restoration activities

Work closely with Security teams to ensure services remain secure and compliant

Support certificate lifecycle management, access controls and secrets management

Collaborate with architects, engineers and third-party suppliers

Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks and operational processes

Drive platform reliability, resilience and continuous improvement initiatives

Skills & Experience Required

3+ years' experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, SRE or similar roles

Strong AWS experience within production environments

Terraform and Infrastructure as Code expertise

Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and/or AWS Fargate

Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

Experience supporting business-critical platforms and services

Monitoring and observability experience (CloudWatch, Splunk or similar)

Experience managing incidents within production environments

Understanding of cloud security best practices

Experience working with APIs and modern cloud architectures

Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Ability to work independently while collaborating across technical teams

Desirable Experience

API security experience

Certificate lifecycle management

PKI, TLS/mTLS and certificate-based authentication

OAuth, OpenID Connect (OIDC) and JWT/JWKS concepts

Secrets and credential management

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience

Python scripting and automation

Vendor and supplier management experience

Experience working within regulated environments

About You You'll be someone who:

Takes ownership and accountability for the services you support

Has a strong security-first mindset

Can confidently investigate incidents and communicate findings

Works effectively with engineers, architects, security teams and suppliers

Understands the operational impact of technical decisions

Enjoys solving problems and improving the way services are delivered and supported

Thrives in an environment where you'll have genuine influence and responsibility

What's On Offer?

Performance bonus

Hybrid working in London

Exposure to modern AWS technologies and large-scale API-driven services

Real ownership and autonomy

Opportunity to influence platform strategy and future architecture

Excellent career progression within a growing technology team

Reasonable Adjustments

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

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