Senior DevOps Platform Engineer

Senior DevOps Platform Engineer

London

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

This is an excellent opportunity for a highly skilled DevOps 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 DevOps 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 CloudFormation and automation frameworks
• Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD Jenkins GitHub Actions and GitOps methodologies
• Manage Kubernetes platforms including EKS container orchestration Helm deployments and cluster optimisation
• Support application containerisation using Docker and Kubernetes-based architectures
• Implement GitOps 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 DevOps Engineer Platform Engineer or Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
• Extensive hands-on AWS experience including VPC IAM EC2 S3 Lambda
• CloudWatch ECS/EKS and networking services
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform and/or CloudFormation
• Strong Kubernetes experience including EKS Helm RBAC networking and container management
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab Jenkins GitHub 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 PowerShell
• 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 GitOps practices and tools such as ArgoCD
  Knowledge 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 SonarQube OWASP Checkov or vulnerability scanning solutions
• Experience supporting highly available business-critical platforms

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