AWS Platform Engineer

Location: Derbyshire

AWS Platform Engineer

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Join Microlise as an AWS Platform Engineer on a 12-month fixed term contract and help build the cloud platform that will power the next generation of analytics, AI and digital services.

This is a rare opportunity to shape a strategic AWS platform from the ground up, establishing the engineering foundations, automation, security controls and operational standards that future teams will build upon.

Working within our Platform Engineering team, you'll design and implement reusable AWS capabilities that enable engineers across Microlise to deploy securely, operate confidently and innovate at scale.

If you're passionate about platform engineering, Infrastructure as Code, cloud automation and creating exceptional developer experiences, we'd love to hear from you.

What will you be doing?

Build the foundations for our AWS future

Microlise is making a significant investment in its next-generation cloud platform, creating the foundations for advanced analytics, AI-driven products, data services and future digital innovation. This platform will become a strategic capability used across the wider Microlise organisation, influencing how future AWS workloads are built, operated and secured

The platform you build won’t just support one application or project. You’ll help create reusable capabilities, standards and deployment patterns that can be adopted across future AWS workloads.

Start by building the platform teams will use

Your first focus will be helping establish the production-ready AWS foundations needed by our Analytics and AI programme, while creating reusable platform capabilities for future workloads.

Build and automate AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code

Establish reusable infrastructure modules, deployment patterns and engineering guardrails

Build and improve CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and platform services

Implement AWS security controls, IAM patterns, secrets management and secure networking

Establish monitoring, logging, alerting and operational observability across the platform

Implement tagging, cost visibility, budgets and Fin Ops controls to help teams understand and manage cloud consumption

Work closely with architecture, security, data engineering and development teams to create a platform that is secure, reliable and straightforward to consume

Build, shape and scale a modern AWS platform

You’ll be part of the team turning our AWS strategy and architecture into a working, production-ready engineering platform.

Design, build and operate secure, resilient AWS infrastructure and shared platform services

Develop reusable modules and automation that allow teams to provision infrastructure consistently

Build deployment pipelines and automated controls that make infrastructure changes safe, repeatable and auditable

Implement cloud networking patterns including VPCs, routing, DNS, security groups and connectivity between AWS and existing environments

Embed security by design, including least-privilege access, encryption, secrets management, vulnerability management and policy enforcement

Build platform observability using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards and automated alerting

Establish backup, recovery, resilience and operational readiness patterns

Implement cloud cost management through tagging standards, budgets, monitoring, optimisation and Fin Ops practices

Support multi-account and multi-environment AWS architectures with appropriate governance and controls

Create platform documentation, engineering standards and reusable patterns that make it easier for development teams to adopt AWS

Collaborate closely with Architecture, Security, Data Engineering, AI Engineering and application teams to continually improve the developer experience

Create a platform that accelerates engineering

This role isn't just about keeping infrastructure running.

We want to create a platform that allows engineering teams to move faster without compromising security, reliability or cost control.

You'll help…