Senior AWS Platform Engineer; Kubernetes

Senior AWS Platform Engineer (Kubernetes Specialism)

Location:
London, UK Remote working

£550 per day Inside IR35

Active Home Office SC Clearance required

Contract until End of March, with an additional 6 months

We are looking for an experienced Platform Engineer with deep expertise in Kubernetes and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). This role will focus on designing, building, and maintaining scalable, secure, and resilient container platforms that enable our engineering teams to deliver applications efficiently and reliably. Leveraging your expertise in cloud technologies and best practices, you will work closely with tenants to architect, implement, and optimise solutions.

You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams to drive innovation and deliver exceptional value to our customers.

• You must have SC
• Join HO on site office days (once in 2 months, either Ruskin Square (Croydon), 2 Marsham Street (Whitehall) or Soapworks (Manchester))

You'll be passionate about new technology and automation, and experienced in being part of an Engineering Team and Agile and Dev Ops best practices. You'll also be able to talk to us about your:

• Knowledge of continuous integration and deployment practices
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code
• Knowledge of deploying, managing, and configuring Kubernetes clusters in a Public Cloud environment
• Ability to collaborate with people of all levels of technical ability
• Understanding of industry best practices
• Team player
• Pro active

• Architect and manage Kubernetes clusters using Amazon EKS.
• Implement best practices for cluster security, networking, and resource management.
• Design and maintain multi‑environment Kubernetes platforms for development, staging, and production.
• Designing and implementing best practices around Kubernetes Upgrade, and Disaster Recovery patterns
• Substantial experience in containerisation technologies such as Docker, Podman or Openshift.

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or AWS CDK.
• Automate cluster provisioning, upgrades, and scaling.
• Integrate Kubernetes with CI/CD pipelines using push and pull based models for seamless application deployment.
• Experience of deploying and managing Git Ops agents such as ArgoCD and/or Flux to automate cluster deployments is desired.

• Monitor and optimise cluster performance, cost, and resource utilisation.
• Implement observability solutions for Kubernetes workloads (e.g., Dynatrace, Cloudwatch, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Troubleshoot and resolve platform‑related incidents and performance issues.

• Apply Kubernetes security best practices (RBAC, network policies, secrets management).
• Ensure compliance with organisational and regulatory standards.
• Manage container image security and vulnerability scanning.

• Work closely with development teams to provide guidance on containerisation and deployment strategies.
• Create documentation and provide training on Kubernetes and EKS usage.
• Advocate for platform engineering best practices across the organisation.

• Platform Engineering: Proficiency in designing and implementing scalable, resilient, and secure cloud platforms.
• Security: Substantial experience in following and implementing security best practices for Kubernetes clusters and in a public cloud environment.
• High Availability: Experience of implementing high availability strategies including Disaster Recovery and Upgrade procedures for Kubernetes clusters.
• Automation: Experience with infrastructure‑as‑code (IaC) practices, automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) and scripting languages (e.g. Python, Ruby).
• Container Orchestration: Knowledge of container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes) and their managed counterparts (e.g., EKS, AKS, GKE).
• Public Cloud Expertise: Understanding of cloud services, architecture, and best practices in one or more major public cloud providers (AWS, GCP).
• Dev Ops Practices: Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, and containerisation technologies…