Senior AWS Platform Engineer

Our client is a specialist cloud and platform engineering consultancy and product-led organisation that helps businesses design, build, secure, and scale modern cloud platforms. They work across both public and private sectors, partnering closely with engineering teams to improve reliability, security, and developer productivity through cloud-native and DevOps-driven approaches.

With a strong focus on platform engineering, automation, and cloud foundations, they enable organisations to deliver software faster while maintaining the right balance of governance, resilience, and operational excellence.

How you'll spend your day

As an AWS Senior Platform Engineer, you'll work hands-on within platform engineering engagements, designing, building, and operating secure, scalable AWS environments. You'll collaborate closely with development teams, architects, and delivery leads to support both application and platform workloads.

Your day-to-day will include:

• Designing, building, and operating AWS platform components aligned with best practices
• Implementing and maintaining infrastructure as code using Terraform
• Building and improving CI/CD pipelines to support faster and safer delivery
• Supporting containerised workloads using Kubernetes and managed services such as EKS
• Enabling cloud-native patterns and platform adoption across application teams
• Implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting to improve operational visibility
• Creating reusable templates, modules, and deployment patterns
• Contributing to improvements in platform reliability, scalability, and security
• Supporting onboarding of new workloads and teams onto shared cloud platforms
• Sharing knowledge through code reviews, documentation, and mentoring less experienced engineers, * 10% Bonus
• 10% Share Options
• Flexible working with core hours (10am-4pm)
• Hybrid model
• 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays, plus an extra day for your birthday
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Private healthcare (with family cover options)
• Pension with salary sacrifice
• Cycle to Work and Electric Car schemes
• £1,000 annual learning budget
• Mental health support, therapy access and wellbeing resources
• MacBook Pro provided
• Dog-friendly office, casual dress, regular socials and team events

What happens next?

One of our Recruitment Consultants will be in touch and inform you if you've been successful to the next stage of the process or not, which is a qualification call where we will tell you more about the role and the client, and understand more about you, your experience and career aspirations.

Should we both wish to proceed, we will submit your details to the client and be in touch regarding the outcome and any further steps.

The interview process for this client consists of:

• Discovery conversation with Talent Acquisition
• Paired technical assessment with an Engineering team member
• Technical deep dive with Practice Leadership
• Competency-focused final interview with Engineering Leadership

This role suits an experienced AWS engineer who enjoys solving complex problems, working in delivery-focused environments, and contributing directly to platform outcomes.

You'll bring:

• Strong hands-on experience designing and operating AWS platforms
• Proven experience with infrastructure as code, particularly Terraform (CloudFormation or CDK beneficial)
• Experience supporting containerised workloads using Kubernetes and EKS
• Solid understanding of CI/CD, Git-based workflows, and automation practices
• Experience working with AWS networking (VPCs, load balancing, connectivity)
• Confidence working in client-facing or consulting environments
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across disciplines
• A pragmatic mindset focused on reliability, security, and continuous improvement

Desirable:

• AWS certifications (e.g. Solutions Architect Associate, Advanced Networking - Specialty)
• Kubernetes and Terraform certifications (CKA, Terraform Associate)
• Experience delivering cloud migration, optimisation, or platform initiatives, * AWS
• CI/CD
• Terraform
• EKS