Senior Platform Engineer

About the Role DO NOT APPLY IF YOU REQUIRE A SPONSORSHIP Our client is scaling its cloud infrastructure to support a fast-growing SaaS product used by a large base of enterprise customers.

Make sure to apply quickly in order to maximise your chances of being considered for an interview Read the complete job description below.

As Senior Platform Engineer, you will own the internal developer platform, improve reliability and deployment speed, and mentor a small team of engineers.

Key Responsibilities Design, build and maintain Kubernetes-based infrastructure on AWS Own CI/CD pipelines and drive adoption of GitOps practices Build self-service tooling that lets product teams ship without platform bottlenecks Improve observability, incident response and SLO tracking Lead infrastructure-as-code standards using Terraform Champion security and cost optimisation across the platform Essential Requirements 5 years in platform, DevOps or SRE roles Strong hands-on Kubernetes and Docker experience Production experience with AWS Proficiency in Terraform or equivalent IaC Scripting ability in Python or Go Experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or Jenkins) Desirable Experience with ArgoCD or Flux Prometheus, xehkeey Grafana or Datadog Exposure to SOC 2 or ISO 27001 environments Previous team leadership or mentoring experience What's On Offer 28 days holiday plus bank holidays Pension with 6% employer contribution £1,500 annual learning budget Flexible working hours Modern tech stack with genuine time for engineering improvement