About this role
Salary: £85,000 - 90,000 per year
Requirements: Strong background in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or SREDeep hands-on AWS experience, including networking, IAM, and securityCommercial experience running Kubernetes in production, ideally EKSExpert-level Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experienceSolid experience building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub ActionsStrong programming ability in Python or Go beyond basic scriptingConfident with Linux administration, troubleshooting, and performance tuningExperience with Amazon RDS or similar managed database servicesTrack record of architecting cloud-native platforms in regulated or security-sensitive environmentsComfortable leading technical conversations with engineers and stakeholders Responsibilities: Architect and build secure, scalable AWS infrastructure using Terraform with an Infrastructure as Code first approachDesign, run, and optimise Amazon EKS and containerised workloads across multiple environmentsBuild and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to give engineering teams fast, safe, repeatable deploymentsWrite automation and tooling in Python or Go to remove manual work and reduce operational overheadSupport and optimise Amazon RDS environments for availability, performance, and securityEmbed site reliability principles across the platform, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and blameless incident reviewsBuild out monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability so problems are spotted before customers feel themDesign solutions that meet the security, audit, and regulatory requirements for financial services, trading, and gambling clientsWork closely with software engineering teams to improve developer experience and delivery speedLead technical decisions, set standards, and take architectural ownership of the platform Technologies: AWSArchitectCI/CDCloudDevOpsGitHubIAMSupportKubernetesLinuxPythonSecurityTerraformREST More:
We are partnering with a software company building mission-critical platforms for financial services, trading firms, and the gambling sector in a regulated, high-stakes environment where downtime and security gaps are not an option. This Senior Platform Engineer role is based in London with a hybrid working arrangement of two days per week in the office, and offers up to £90,000 plus bonus and benefits. We provide a modern AWS stack with no legacy baggage, genuine technical leadership and architectural ownership, investment in training, certifications and progression, and a culture that values engineering quality over shipping at any cost.
last updated 31 week of 2026