Senior Platform Engineer ( AWS )

16 Days Old

Job Description

Senior Platform Engineer – Hybrid (London) – AWS / Kafka / Infrastructure as code (IaC)

Location: Hybrid (2 days/week in London office)

Type: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: Competitive + Benefits

About the Role

We’re looking for a skilled Senior Platform Engineer to help shape and scale a modern cloud-native platform that underpins high-volume data processing. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on enabling development teams through robust infrastructure, automation, and tooling.

You’ll be instrumental in evolving a lean, event-driven architecture that supports real-time data flows and complex backend services. Working in a collaborative environment, you’ll help drive platform strategy, improve developer experience, and ensure systems are secure, observable, and cost-efficient.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving infrastructure challenges, mentoring others, and building systems that make a real-world impact. especially in a domain where technology directly supports creative industries.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own the full lifecycle of platform development: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations.
  • Support development teams with infrastructure and platform tooling.
  • Collaborate with InfoSec and global platform teams to maintain security and compliance.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools, and cost optimisation strategies.
  • Mentor and coach engineers on platform best practices.

Tech Stack Highlights

  • AWS (ECS, S3, DynamoDB, Aurora, OpenSearch)
  • Pulumi (TypeScript) for infrastructure as code
  • Kafka (Confluent Cloud) for event-driven architecture
  • GitHub Actions for CI/CD
  • DataDog for observability
  • Containerised microservices architecture

What We’re Looking For

  • Strong programming background (Java or TypeScript preferred)
  • Experience designing scalable, resilient cloud infrastructure
  • Familiarity with event-driven systems and Kafka
  • Hands-on experience with AWS and infrastructure automation tools (Pulumi, Terraform, etc.)
  • Understanding of Domain-Driven Design and collaborative modelling
  • Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, OpenSearch)
  • Bonus: Experience with monolith-to-microservices migrations

Why Join?

  • Flexible working (hybrid London)
  • Enhanced holiday allowance
  • Mental and physical health initiatives
  • Pension scheme
  • Inclusive, values-driven culture
  • Work on meaningful tech that supports a growing industry

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Location:
City Of London
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Engineering

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