Senior DevOps Platform Engineer

Overview

In this role you will design, build and operate scalable cloud platforms in AWS and Kubernetes. You will automate deployments and CI/CD pipelines, supporting containerised applications and GitOps practices to improve reliability and security.

You’ll work closely with development, security and architecture teams to accelerate software delivery at enterprise scale. This is a hands-on position shaping cloud infrastructure and automation across complex environments, with a focus on modern, cloud-native platforms.

The opportunity centers on driving robust, automated, and secure deployment ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS environments
• Develop and manage infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation and automation frameworks
• Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions and GitOps
• 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 ArgoCD and Helm
• Develop reusable automation frameworks for provisioning, configuration management and deployments
• Improve platform reliability, scalability and security through automation and best practices
• Support cloud migrations from traditional data centre environments into modern cloud-native platforms
• Implement monitoring, observability and logging across distributed systems
• Collaborate with development, security and architecture teams to improve software delivery processes

Key requirements

• Strong commercial experience as a DevOps/Platform/Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
• Extensive hands-on AWS experience (VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, ECS/EKS, networking)
• IaC experience with Terraform and/or CloudFormation
• Kubernetes experience including EKS, Helm, RBAC, networking
• CI/CD pipeline experience with GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions or similar
• Linux systems administration and cloud infrastructure knowledge
• Containerisation with Docker and Kubernetes
• Configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef or similar
• Scripting in Bash, Python or PowerShell
• Understanding of cloud security principles (IAM, encryption, vulnerability management, compliance)
• collaboration across cross-functional teams
• problem-solving and proactive delivery
• communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• AWS (VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, ECS/EKS)
• Terraform and/or CloudFormation
• Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, RBAC

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