Senior Platform Engineer

Role Overview

The Senior Platform Engineer is a hands-on technical contributor responsible for building, evolving, and maintaining cloud platform infrastructure to ensure it is secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective. The role includes mentoring junior engineers and supporting knowledge sharing across the team.

What You Will Do

Design and architect scalable AWS cloud infrastructure, developing IaC solutions using Terraform and leading cloud technology evaluation and standardisation initiatives. Build, optimise, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployment, establishing DevOps and DevSecOps best practices across the organisation.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The role requires a curious and forward-thinking mindset, with a strong grasp of microservices architecture, cloud networking protocols, and DNS. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with monitoring and observability platforms, including defining alerting standards and ensuring infrastructure reliability at scale.

Requirements

• 7+ years in cloud infrastructure engineering with hands-on experience designing and administering complex platforms across AWS, GCP, and Azure
• Deep knowledge of networking (VPC, Direct Connect, Transit Gateways, BGP, OSPF) and IaaS/PaaS architectural patterns
• 2+ years with IaC tools (Terraform or Ansible) and hands-on experience with orchestration and automation platforms (AWX, Ansible Tower, Terragrunt)
• 2+ years designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, or equivalent
• 2+ years of Kubernetes administration across on-premises and cloud environments (EKS preferred, AKS, GKE)
• Proficiency in networking, RBAC, pod security, service mesh (Istio), and Docker image management
• Experience implementing developer portals (Backstage), artifact repositories (JFrog Artifactory, Nexus), API gateways, and self-service platform engineering tools to support internal teams
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability platforms (Honeycomb, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Strong grasp of microservices architecture, cloud networking protocols (Layer 2/3, MPLS), DNS, load balancing, and traffic management
• Proficiency across version control systems (Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket)

Benefits

• Tailored development programs
• Mentoring opportunities with leaders
• Clear career progression
• Extra time off for volunteering and community work