Senior Platform Developer with AWS

Client: Our client is a financial services company developing secure digital banking and retail finance platforms.

• Project overview: You will contribute to a transformation from team operated infrastructure toward a platform with clear self service capabilities. The project is centered on reliability, security, observability, resilience, and maintainable engineering practices for business critical services.

• Position overview: We are looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to support the existing AWS infrastructure and contribute to its ongoing modernisation and consolidation.

• The role combines hands-on cloud engineering with developer enablement. You should understand Platform Engineering as a product discipline and be able to discuss developer experience, self-service, platform adoption, reliability, and technical trade-offs.

• The working schedule is aligned with UK business hours, from 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM UK time. Participation in an on-call rota may be required.

• This position includes a sign-in bonus.

• Technology stack: AWS, EKS, ECS, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Terraform, GitHub Actions, OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, Datadog, Claude, ChatGPT

• Responsibilities: Design and evolve reliable cloud platform capabilities for engineering teams.

• Improve AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring and operational patterns.

• Partner with engineers to understand needs and make safe, maintainable choices.

• Take ownership of work from problem definition through delivery and learning.

• Strengthen observability, resilience, security and incident readiness.

• Help build reusable tooling, guardrails and self-service foundations.

• Participate in incident response, communication, post-incident reviews, and completion of corrective actions.

• Participate in an on-call rota when required.

• Requirements: Strong hands-on AWS platform engineering experience in production environments.

• Practical Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, Terraform and Helm experience.

• Strong CI/CD experience, particularly GitHub Actions, and reusable-pipeline thinking.

• Experience with logging and monitoring, networking and protocols, scripting, secrets management and service discovery.

• Exposure to both AWS and Kubernetes, with sound coding experience.

• Evidence of designing secure, reliable and maintainable platform solutions.

• Autonomous delivery and constructive collaboration with application engineers.

• Experience supporting business-critical services through an on-call rota.

• Experience with at least one programming or scripting language.

• Nice to have: Experience with Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry , Prometheus, Splunk , including SLO-led practices.

• Pragmatic use of AI-assisted engineering tools to improve quality and productivity