AWS Senior Platform Engineer

Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer (AWS) – SC Eligible

Location: London (Hybrid – 1 day/week onsite)

Salary: £75,000 – £90,000 + bonus + shares

Clearance: Must be SC eligible (or active SC)

The Opportunity

We’re working with a high-performing cloud & platform engineering consultancy delivering into critical UK programmes (including central government).

This role sits within their consulting arm, but importantly you’ll be embedded directly into product teams - building real platforms, not just advising. Expect hands-on engineering, ownership, and working on meaningful systems at scale.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Designing and building secure, scalable AWS platforms
• Writing and managing infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• Building and improving CI/CD pipelines
• Working with containerised workloads (Kubernetes / EKS)
• Implementing observability (monitoring, logging, alerting)
• Collaborating closely with product teams and stakeholders
• Contributing to platform best practices, reliability, and scalability

What We’re Looking For

• Strong AWS platform / DevOps engineering experience
• Solid experience with:
• Terraform (essential)
• CI/CD pipelines
• Kubernetes / container platforms
• Observability tooling
• Experience working in consulting or client-facing environments
• Strong communicator – able to influence and explain decisions clearly
• Comfortable pushing back constructively with stakeholders
• Experience working on real production platforms / products (not just infra support)

💡 Titles we typically see:

DevOps Engineer / Senior DevOps Engineer / Platform Engineer

Environment & Culture

• You’ll be working on high-impact government-facing products
• Hybrid working with 10am–4pm core hours
• Ideally 1 day per week onsite
• Very high technical bar - strong engineers only

Interview Process

This is a 3-stage process:

1. Terraform Coding Exercise (live / paired)

• Hands-on and in-depth – we’ll brief you fully beforehand

1. Technical Interview

• Deep dive into your experience and projects

1. Final Onsite (flexible)

• Meet the team you’ll be joining

Additional Requirements

• Must be SC eligible (British passport or ILR, 5 years UK residency, clean background) or already cleared
• Comfortable working in secure / government environments

Why Join?

• Work on mission-critical UK systems
• Strong engineering culture with real platform ownership
• Flexible working + excellent benefits
• Exposure to modern cloud-native tech at scale