Senior AWS Platform Engineer - #2113296

Senior Platform Engineer

London (Hybrid, 2 days per week in the office)

Up to £90,000 + Benefits

We're partnering with a software company building mission critical platforms for financial services, trading firms, and the gambling sector. Regulated, high stakes environments where downtime and security gaps aren't an option.

They're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer who can operate as a technical leader. Not a ticket taker. Someone who can architect cloud native solutions on AWS, set the standard for how the platform is built, and bring genuine site reliability engineering principles into the way the business operates.

You'll be the person engineering teams turn to when they need a platform decision making. That means real ownership of architecture, real influence over direction, and the freedom to fix the things that slow delivery down.

If you enjoy building resilient, well automated infrastructure in environments where compliance actually matters, this one could be a good fit.

What You'll Be Doing

• Architect and build secure, scalable AWS infrastructure using Terraform with an Infrastructure as Code first approach
• Design, run, and optimise Amazon EKS and containerised workloads across multiple environments
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to give engineering teams fast, safe, repeatable deployments
• Write automation and tooling in Python or Go to remove manual work and reduce operational overhead
• Support and optimise Amazon RDS environments for availability, performance, and security
• Embed site reliability principles across the platform, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and blameless incident reviews
• Build out monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability so problems are spotted before customers feel them
• Design solutions that meet the security, audit, and regulatory requirements that come with financial services, trading, and gambling clients
• Work closely with software engineering teams to improve developer experience and delivery speed
• Lead technical decisions, set standards, and take architectural ownership of the platform

What We're Looking For

• Strong background in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or SRE
• Deep hands on AWS experience, including networking, IAM, and security
• Commercial experience running Kubernetes in production, ideally EKS
• Expert level Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• Solid experience building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions
• Strong programming ability in Python or Go, beyond basic scripting
• Confident with Linux administration, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
• Experience with Amazon RDS or similar managed database services
• Track record of architecting cloud native platforms in regulated or security sensitive environments
• Comfortable leading technical conversations with engineers and stakeholders alike

Why Join?

• Work on platforms that power financial services, trading, and gambling businesses at scale
• Genuine technical leadership with real architectural ownership
• Modern AWS stack with no legacy baggage holding you back
• Regulated environments that make the engineering problems more interesting, not more restrictive
• A team that values engineering quality over shipping at any cost
• Investment in training, certifications, and progression
• Hybrid working with two days per week in the London office

Don't Tick Every Box?

That's fine.

Nobody has every line on a spec. If you've got strong AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform experience, plus the ability to think architecturally and lead technically, that's the core of it. The rest can be learned.

Apply now!

Senior Platform Engineer

London (Hybrid, 2 days per week)

Up to £90,000 + Bonus + Benefits

AWS | EKS | Kubernetes | Terraform | RDS | Linux | GitHub Actions | Python | Go | SRE | CI/CD | Infrastructure as Code | Platform Engineering