Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Join a forward-thinking technology business where platform engineering is at the heart of delivering reliable, scalable cloud services. This is a hands-on opportunity to shape and enhance a modern AWS platform, working with cutting-edge cloud-native technologies while helping engineering teams deliver with confidence.

Role Overview

• Location: Hybrid / Remote (location to be confirmed)
• Package: Competitive salary + benefits
• Industry: Highly-regulated

What You'll Be Doing

• Own the performance, reliability, and continuous improvement of a Kubernetes platform running on AWS EKS.
• Manage and enhance GitOps workflows using Flux, ensuring smooth deployments and reliable environment reconciliation.
• Maintain and optimise AWS managed services including EKS, MSK and RDS, covering scaling, resilience, patching and cost optimisation.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, creating reusable and well-structured modules across multiple environments.
• Support and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, helping streamline the delivery of containerised applications.
• Work closely with software engineers to support, troubleshoot and optimise Java, Kotlin and Python services running in Kubernetes.
• Proactively identify technical debt and drive incremental platform improvements that increase stability, security and efficiency.
• Participate in the on-call rota, responding to incidents and driving root cause analysis to improve platform resilience.

Main Skills Needed

• Experience working in regulated environments such as BFS, Betting/Gambling etc.
• Strong commercial experience managing Kubernetes in production, ideally on AWS EKS.
• Proven expertise with GitOps practices using Flux, alongside Helm and Kustomize.
• Hands-on experience administering AWS services including EKS, MSK and RDS.
• Strong Terraform skills with experience building and maintaining modular Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience creating and supporting CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Good understanding of containerised Java, Kotlin and/or Python applications and how to troubleshoot them in production.
• A proactive operational mindset with experience in incident response, platform support and continuous improvement.
• Comfortable working independently while collaborating with multiple engineering teams.

What's in It for You

• The opportunity to work with a mature, cloud-native technology stack.
• A highly collaborative engineering environment where your expertise will directly influence platform evolution.
• Exposure to modern DevOps, GitOps and platform engineering practices.
• The chance to make a real impact by driving automation, reliability and continuous improvement.
• A role offering autonomy, technical ownership and opportunities to influence engineering best practice.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.

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