AWS Platform Engineer; Development​/Background

We are seeking a highly capable Platform / Cloud Engineer to join a fast-paced engineering environment focused on building, scaling, and optimizing cloud-native platforms. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in modern AWS ecosystems, has hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads, and is passionate about automation, reliability, and continuous improvement. You will play a key role in designing, deploying, and supporting resilient, secure, and observable systems that empower development teams to deliver at scale.

Candidates must have a good understanding of the following services and/ or concepts:

• AWS (EKS, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, Fargate, Lambda, Cloud Front) and Well Architected Frameworks
• Observability and Monitoring (Xray, Cloud Watch, Open Tracing, Grafana)
• Kubernetes (EKS) experience
• Dev Ops Practices and CI/CD Tools (AWS Dev Ops Tools, Jenkins)
• Cloud Native Toolsets (Helm, Kustomize)
• Containerisation
• Programming languages (Python, Go, Java, JavaScript)
• Linux experience
• Distributed systems and architectures

Responsibilities include:

• CI/CD with Jenkins pipelines as code or similar (Github Actions, Azure Dev Ops)
• Kubernetes Administration (Ingress, networking, RBAC)
• Enhancing monitoring and observability (SLO, SLI, SLA) and alerting
• Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) user (Terraform, Cloud Formation, Crossplane)
• Release management and oversite
• SRE practises such as incident response, automation, reliability and monitoring

Requirements

• AWS Associate level certification or substantial years of experience
• Preferred Kubernetes Application Developer certification or substantial years of experience
• Be familiar with Kubernetes Administrative tasks
• Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, Cloud Formation or CDKS
• Experience with Kubernetes Git Ops practises and using tools such as ArgoCD / Flux or Helm / Kustomize
• Experience monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Watch
• Building of platform APIs, automation, tooling and/ or internal developer platforms