Platform Engineer

Position Description

Base Location : London - Fenchurch Street 2-3 days per week

Start - ASAP

End - 31/03/26

Pay - £650pd Inside IR35 via umbrella

• This role requires SC Clearance, please do not apply if you do not hold active SC
• Strong experience designing, building and operating cloud platforms and solutions, with AWS as your primary cloud provider.
• Hands on Terraform experience implementing Infrastructure as Code at scale and developing reusable modules
• A strong understanding of AWS services and cloud native architecture patterns.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and GitLab CI/CD.
• Strong experience working with Docker and containerised workloads.
• Experience developing or supporting serverless solutions using AWS Lambda and other AWS managed services.
• Strong Scripting and automation skills using languages such as Python or Bash.
• Experience producing high quality technical designs and documentation.
• Experience of working in agile delivery teams, mentoring engineers and helping establish engineering standards.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across multidisciplinary teams.
• A passion for continuous improvement, learning new technologies and modern platform engineering practices.

Nice to haves

• Experience with AWS container services such as ECS or EKS is desirable; Kubernetes experience is welcomed but not essential.
• Designing or operating multi account AWS environments.
• DevSecOps practices and integrating security throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Strong experience with Microsoft Azure or other cloud providers is desirable in lieu of AWS experience.
• Experience working within secure or highly regulated environments.