Naimuri AWS Platform Engineer

Job Title: Naimuri AWS Platform Engineer

Job Type: Permanent Fulltime

Job Location: Portsmouth

Job ID: 19270

We can offer you the chance to help make the UK a safer place through innovation working in partnership with government and law enforcement organisations on some of the most challenging data and technology problems out there.

We strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to building an inclusive safe and supportive environment that allows everyone to do their best work. We are happy to support any accessibility or neurodiversity requirements that you may need during the recruitment process.

About us:

Weve been around for about ten years and grown from being a little-known tech start-up to creating our own community at the heart of the thriving and diverse tech and digital ecosystem of Greater Manchester. As part of our future journey were looking to create footprints in other areas of the UK and in this instance around the Portsmouth and Salisbury Plains area.

Our name Naimuri is Japanese and simply means
nai meaning not
muri meaning overburden

These principles apply to every aspect of an organisation from technology process and infrastructure through to people culture and leadership. This means that we empower our teams to do what they think is the right thing giving them the skills and confidence to explore new ways of working and to create a bias-free environment where all our people feel comfortable collaborating to deliver the finest ideas and solutions in an agile environment.

Our business is focused on 4 cornerstones which shape and underpin the way in which we go about work and treat each other. These are: Wellbeing Empowerment Perpetual Edge and Delivery.

People and culture are at the heart of Naimuri so that collectively we can realise our mission of making the UK a safer place to be.

Overview:

As a primarily AWS-focused Platform Engineer at Naimuri youll be hands-on in designing building and supporting secure scalable and automated cloud infrastructure using Amazon Web Services. Youll operate at the intersection of platform engineering and cloud architectureenabling teams to move faster deploy with confidence and embrace modern DevSecOps practices.

Youll work in a cross-functional platform capability collaborating with developers data and delivery leads to turn infrastructure into reusable self-service products. We operate in different cloud environments so the opportunity to cross skill in platforms such as Azure and Google Cloud will also be available.

Youre expected to have solid practical AWS experience curiosity about how things work at scale and an instinct for automation governance and cloud-native thinking.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build & Automate: Deliver reusable infrastructure modules and CI/CD pipelines using GitLab or AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild to support consistent and secure deployments.
  
  
• Platform Ownership: Contribute to the development and refinement of internal AWS Landing Zones ensuring secure-by-default and policy-driven environments across multiple accounts whilst expanding your knowledge into the AWS workspace.
  
  
• Operational Excellence: Monitor troubleshoot and continuously improve environments using tools like CloudWatch CloudTrail and GuardDuty.
  
  
• Governance & Policy: Implement and maintain IAM roles and policies Service Control Policies tagging strategies and cost control measures.
  
  
• Security First: Embed secure design principles into everything you build; support identity and access management Secrets Manager/KMS integration secure pipelines and vulnerability management.
  
  
• Collaboration & Enablement: Work with delivery teams to support their use of the platform coach on best practices and help define golden paths and documentation that lower the barrier to adoption.
  
  
• Innovation & Evolution: Stay up to date with AWS capabilities contribute to capability assessments and actively suggest improvements or new services that align with company strategy (e.g. enabling AI/ML or hybrid connectivity).
  
  

Core Skills & Experience:

3 years hands-on experience with AWS cloud environments in production.
Strong experience with:

• IaC (Terraform CloudFormation CDK)
• CI/CD tooling (GitLab Argo AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild)
• AWS Networking (VPCs PrivateLink Security Groups Route Tables Transit Gateway etc.)
• Identity & Access Management (IAM Organizations SSO)
• Monitoring & Security (CloudWatch GuardDuty Config Security Hub)
• Container Orchestration (Kubernetes RedHat Openshift Helm Kustomize Docker/Podman)

Experience building and consuming shared infrastructure as code modules in a GitOps-style setup. Ability to troubleshoot cloud-native micro-service applications networking and infrastructure issues.

While this is primarily a cloud engineering role were especially interested in candidates with exposure to AWS data and AI/ML services (such as SageMaker Comprehend Rekognition Bedrock or related tooling)

Desirable / Bonus:

• Exposure to hybrid cloud setups (e.g. on-prem integration or restricted networks)
• Familiarity with supporting data/AI pipelines or platform integrations (e.g. Glue SageMaker Step Functions EventBridge)
• Awareness of enterprise controls (NCSC/Cyber Essentials NIST or similar frameworks)
• Understanding of cloud cost optimisation and FinOps practices
• Exposure to other cloud environments (Azure Google Cloud)

Behaviours:

• Proactive problem-solver who balances pragmatism with long-term maintainability
• Comfortable owning delivery making trade-offs and asking the so what
• Collaborative with good communication skills and a bias toward enabling others
• Security-conscious and compliance-aware without being a blocker
• Willing to continuously learn and adapt to new challenges
  
  

Location:

Whilst our Head Office is based in Salford Quays Manchester with satellite offices in London and Cheltenhamthe location for this role is in or around the area of Portsmouth. The role would be hybrid working where you can work from home for part of your working week with time on site being based on the needs of your assigned delivery and agreed Ways of Working for your team. Onsite location would be in Portsmouth primarily and would normally be a maximum of one or two days per week based on specific delivery demand but you would be welcome to spend more days in the office if you preferred. There would be occasional travel to Manchester estimated to be no more than once or twice a year.

Pay and benefits:

Naimuri pays competitively within the industry based on your roles base location rates. The salary for this position is dependent upon your experience. We assess seniority relative to the team at Naimuri during the interviewing process.

A full-time working week is 37.5 hours and you have flexibility over when you give that time. We also offer part-time working which can be discussed during the recruitment process.

Our core hours are 10:00am - 3:00pm and our office hours are between 7:30 and 18:00 Monday to Friday.

Benefits include:

• Flexible/Hybrid working options
• A company performance related bonus
• Pension matched 1.5x up to 10.5%
• AXA group 1 medical cover
• Holiday buy-back sc
• A flexible benefits scheme

Recruitment Process:

We want to ensure that you feel comfortable and confident when interviewing with us. To help you prepare our recruitment team will discuss the process in more detail with you when you apply.

We are happy to support any accessibility or neurodiversity requirements.