Senior Platform Engineer ( AWS )
hace 11 días
City of London
Senior Platform Engineer – Hybrid (London) – AWS / Kafka / Infrastructure as code (IaC) Location: Hybrid (2 days/week in London office) Type: Full-time, Permanent Salary: Competitive + Benefits About the Role We’re looking for a skilled Senior Platform Engineer to help shape and scale a modern cloud-native platform that underpins high-volume data processing. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on enabling development teams through robust infrastructure, automation, and tooling. You’ll be instrumental in evolving a lean, event-driven architecture that supports real-time data flows and complex backend services. Working in a collaborative environment, you’ll help drive platform strategy, improve developer experience, and ensure systems are secure, observable, and cost-efficient. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving infrastructure challenges, mentoring others, and building systems that make a real-world impact. especially in a domain where technology directly supports creative industries. Key Responsibilities • Own the full lifecycle of platform development: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations., • Support development teams with infrastructure and platform tooling., • Collaborate with InfoSec and global platform teams to maintain security and compliance., • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools, and cost optimisation strategies., • AWS (ECS, S3, DynamoDB, Aurora, OpenSearch), • Pulumi (TypeScript) for infrastructure as code, • Kafka (Confluent Cloud) for event-driven architecture, • GitHub Actions for CI/CD, • DataDog for observability, • Strong programming background (Java or TypeScript preferred), • Experience designing scalable, resilient cloud infrastructure, • Familiarity with event-driven systems and Kafka, • Hands-on experience with AWS and infrastructure automation tools (Pulumi, Terraform, etc.), • Understanding of Domain-Driven Design and collaborative modelling, • Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, OpenSearch), • Flexible working (hybrid London), • Enhanced holiday allowance, • Mental and physical health initiatives, • Pension scheme, • Inclusive, values-driven culture, • Work on meaningful tech that supports a growing industry