Senior DevOps Platform Engineer

Senior Dev Ops Platform Engineer London We are currently supporting a leading organisation looking to hire an experienced Senior Dev Ops Platform Engineer to join their cloud engineering function.

This is an excellent opportunity for a highly skilled Dev Ops professional to work on complex cloud-native environments, designing and automating scalable platforms across AWS, Kubernetes and modern CI/CD ecosystems.

The successful candidate will play a key role in building resilient cloud platforms, improving deployment automation, supporting containerised applications and driving Dev Ops best practices across enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities Design, build and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS environments

Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform, Cloud Formation and automation frameworks

Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines using Git Lab CI/CD, Jenkins, Git Hub Actions and Git Ops methodologies

Manage Kubernetes platforms including EKS, container orchestration, Helm deployments and cluster optimisation

Support application containerisation using Docker and Kubernetes-based architectures

Implement Git Ops delivery models using tools such as ArgoCD and Helm Develop reusable automation frameworks for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management and deployments

Improve platform reliability, scalability and security through automation and engineering best practices

Support cloud migrations from traditional data centre environments into modern cloud-native platforms

Implement monitoring, observability and logging solutions across complex distributed systems

Work closely with development, security and architecture teams to improve software delivery processes

Required Experience Strong commercial experience working as a Dev Ops Engineer, Platform Engineer or Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Extensive hands-on AWS experience including VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda,Cloud Watch, ECS/EKS and networking services

Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform and/or Cloud Formation Strong  Kubernetes experience including EKS, Helm, RBAC, networking and container management

Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Git Lab, Jenkins, Git Hub Actions or similar tools

Strong understanding of Linux systems administration and cloud infrastructure

Experience with containerisation technologies including Docker and Kubernetes

Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef or similar

Strong scripting ability using languages such as Bash, Python or Power Shell Understanding  of cloud security principles including IAM, encryption, vulnerability management and compliance controls

Desirable Experience Experience working within regulated industries such as financial services, government or healthcare

Experience with Git Ops practices and tools such as ArgoCDKnowledge of service mesh technologies including Istio or similar

Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk or ELK Experience supporting hybrid cloud environments across AWS, Azure, GCP or private cloud

Experience with security tooling including Vault, Sonar Qube, OWASP, Checkov or vulnerability scanning solutions

Experience supporting highly available, business-critical platforms

This role would suit a Senior Dev Ops Engineer, Platform Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer or Cloud Automation Specialist looking to work on challenging enterprise environments.